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Industry News
- The ILM completed research in May 2011 to find out more about the anecdotal evidence that suggests that coaching is increasingly widespread in organisations. ILM also sought to provide objective research to tell us for certain how organisations approach the use of coaching. What, for example, is behind the rapid growth in the use of coaching? How and why do organisations use coaching, and what can we learn from them?
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- European Mentoring and Coaching Council Quality Awards. Lise Lewis is currently leading on the production of a Quality Award for Supervision training programmes. This will be a similar accreditation process to the European Quality Award for Coaching / Mentoring training programmes and European Individual Accreditation for practitioners. The plan is to launch a pilot in Autumn 2011 with the official launch in 2012.
- 1st EMCC Research Conference: This event at the University of Twente was warmly welcomed as an opportunity to share evidence based research covering various topics in coaching and mentoring. Lise presented interim findings on her study of phenomena occurring in coaching conversations. The response to the event is such that this is likely to be repeated next year.
- Global Coaching Community The Rainbow Convention held in Cape Town in May 2011 was a follow up to the original Dublin and subsequent Middlesex GCC conventions. Opening sessions included Mindfulness, Conscious Embodiment and Improvisation. The dialogue sessions included Team Coaching, Standards (facilitated by Lise), Assessment, Research, Positive Psychology, Ethics, Supervision, Coaching Cultures and Professional Bodies (facilitated by Lise). Also available to hear were ‘Pod Blasts’ covering the research findings of South African practitioners. For more information and to join the ongoing dialogue visit: http://gccweb.ning.com.