Events Calendar: September - December 2016

Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September
Wellbeing Coaching Programme, Wigan, UK
This 2 day ILM Endorsed programme will help you to empower clients with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to make necessary lifestyle and behavioural changes to improve their health and quality of life.

Saturday 17th September
Coaching Network, The Mount, Orrell, UK
In these informal sessions we lead a seminar on a crucial area of coaching, followed by a chance to mix with like-minded professional coaches and share your learning. The seminar will be on Action Learning and Group Coaching.

Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st September (plus 3 days at a later date)
Level 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring Programme, DW Stadium, Wigan, UK
This programme will develop your capability to act as a coach/mentor at the highest level. It takes around a year to complete. The extensive practical and theory-based work will enable you to work with any client to develop their leadership skills and support their career development.

Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st September (plus 2 days at a later date)
Level 7 Coaching Supervision Programme, DW Stadium, Wigan, UK
This programme is for highly experienced coaches who are looking to become a competent coach supervisor. Ideal for those who lead coaching in an organisation.

Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th & Friday 7th October (plus 2 days at a later date)
Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring Programme, DW Stadium, Wigan, UK
This is an undergraduate level qualification, designed for mid-level managers and organisational coaches to develop the knowledge and ability to coach effectively at organisational level.

Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th & Friday 7th October (plus 1 day at a later date)
Level 3 Coaching Programme, DW Stadium, Wigan, UK
This programme is ideal for those who are new to coaching, it will develop your capability to act as a coach and develop those around you. It takes 6-9 months to complete this qualification.

Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th October
Career Coaching Programme, Dubai, UAE
This is a 2 day ILM Endorsed programme that aims to enhance executive coaching skills in the context of careers issues. The programme is for coaches and will build on their existing coaching skills and techniques to provide effective career coaching and counselling.

Saturday 15th October
Coaching Network, Dubai, UAE
In these informal sessions we lead a seminar on a crucial area of coaching, followed by a chance to mix with like-minded professional coaches and share your learning. The seminar will be on Team and Group Coaching Techniques.

Sunday 16th, Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th October (plus 6 days at a later date)
Level 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring Programme, Dubai, UAE
This programme will develop your capability to act as a coach/mentor at the highest level. It takes around a year to complete. The extensive practical and theory-based work will enable you to work with any client to develop their leadership skills and support their career development.

Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th October (plus 2 days at a later date)
Level 7 Coaching Supervision Programme, Dubai, UAE
This programme is for highly experienced coaches who are looking to become a competent coach supervisor. Ideal for those who lead coaching in an organisation.

Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th November
Career Coaching Programme, London, UK
This is a 2 day ILM Endorsed programme that aims to enhance executive coaching skills in the context of careers issues. The programme is for coaches and will build on their existing coaching skills and techniques to provide effective career coaching and counselling.

Saturday 19th November
Coaching Network, The Mount, Orrell, UK
In these informal sessions we lead a seminar on a crucial area of coaching, followed by a chance to mix with like-minded professional coaches and share your learning.

Thursday 24th & Friday 25th November
Career Coaching Programme, Wigan, UK
This is a 2 day ILM Endorsed programme that aims to enhance executive coaching skills in the context of careers issues. The programme is for coaches and will build on their existing coaching skills and techniques to provide effective career coaching and counselling.

Tuesday 13th December
Planning & Pricing Your Coaching Services, Wigan, UK
1 day masterclass with Judith Barton that will give you the knowledge, tools and motivation to work on your business plan and pricing strategy.

Resilience

Martin Hill, Senior tutor BSC

The recent adverse weather conditions that has struck the UK recently has been a remarkable demonstration of the resilience people have when faced with adverse situations.

Resilience has been one of the “hot topics” in coaching developments in 2015, together with the concepts of mindfulness and wellbeing. As a coach you are likely to encounter situations where you will have to assist the client in overcoming setbacks and disappointments; whether in their personal life or their career; and thereby to help the client with their enhanced resilience to achieve their potential.

Resilience means “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness” or “The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity”. Sometimes this is described as “bounceback-ability.” One of the challenges we often face as coaches is how to position our services to potential clients- how can we “sell” resilience as a benefit to potential clients? For me, I think there are clear links to performance improvements – for example reduced absenteeism; increased creativity etc.

In her book “Resilience – A practical guide for coaches”- Carole Pemberton [2015] Open University Press (Coaching In Practice series), Pemberton describes resilience in terms of human behaviour as “the capacity to remain flexible in our thoughts, feelings and behaviours when faced by a life disruption , or extended periods of pressure, so that we emerge from difficulty stronger, wiser and more able.” 

Pemberton suggests that as coaches we “do not just know what resilience is , but that we recognise the different needs our clients bring with them in relation to their own resilience, These needs encompass:

• Building protection – through taking action;
• Building capacity– through developing resilience skills;
• Building renewal – through being helped to use the learning from difficulty to move forward.”

Pemberton suggests the use of the ABC model –

• Adversity: the what, where and when
• Belief: Authentic and Realistic
• Consequence

She describes a four stage approach:

1. Strength Inventory – what strengths does the client have that are unrelated to the present challenge- either in their daily habits or linked to their values.
2. Construct a bespoke personal resilience model based on the strengths identified in step 1. What skills and strengths have they already noted, but which they are not using in the current situation?
3. Invite Client’s Thoughts –invite the client to consider how they could better maintain resilience in the face of their current difficulty by using the strengths they have identified in step 2. The focus here is not on how they can overcome the difficulty using the strengths they have identified, but how they can use them to persist in the face of difficulty.
4. Practice resilience by agreeing a behavioural experiment using the personal resilience model. Ask the client to predict how they think their resilience will play out in the situation. The aim is not to focus on the outcome of the encounter, but to focus on their resilience within the encounter.

Finally, Pemberton looked at the roles of the coach in dealing with the resilience process:


“Strength does not come from what you CAN do; it comes from OVERCOMING the things you ONCE thought you couldn’t.” Rikki Rogers.

Martin Hill LL.B (Hons), FCMI, FInstLM, FISQC, MAC, EMCC Member, Coach & Coach Supervisor
Director for ILM 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring Courses