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The emerging contribution of internal coaching (article)

 By Janine Everson and Craig O’Flaherty, Directors of the Centre for Coaching, UCT Graduate School of Business Only a decade or so has passed since leading South African organisations began to access and integrate the modality of coaching into the running of their organisations. Like all new trends, there are always early-adopters, who take the risk to experiment with a fresh application and make their mistakes until the impact starts to show, but the experimental phase is over. "Local organisations are starting to understand the power of a blended model – where both external and internal coaches can be integrated [...]

The emerging contribution of internal coaching (article)2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

Executive coaching can take your company’s performance to the next level

Executive coaching as a standard leadership development tool A new study by the Centre for Coaching at the University of Cape Town‟s Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has revealed that tailoring coaching techniques to a specific corporate environment can increase customer satisfaction, improve productivity and boost the bottom line. Toyota has initiated a tailor-made coaching programme for its Toyota Tsusho Africa subsidiary in all eight African countries where the company has a presence. Results showed a happier workforce and customer base translating into a 92% increase in the economic value added to the company. “We started searching for innovative [...]

Executive coaching can take your company’s performance to the next level2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

Touch, pause, engage: The transformative power of investing in people

Business leaders have mostly overcome any lingering skepticism over the importance of so-called ‘soft’ skills like coaching, and just in time. Increasingly, research is showing that investing in people is not only essential for boosting employee satisfaction– it makes financial sense as well. The statistics pile up: the International Personnel Management Association increased its ...

Touch, pause, engage: The transformative power of investing in people2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

Centre for Coaching expands to Europe

Leading International Coaching Centre opens in Geneva, Switzerland The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business’ Centre for Coaching (CFC) is expanding to Western Europe, opening a new base in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently the CFC operates throughout Africa, Australasia and Europe, with offices in South Africa and Australia. Coaching courses available through the European branch – which will kick off in October 2013 – include the Foundations of Coaching course, a three-day introductory course that introduces the principles and methods of coaching grounded in an integral approach, while gaining hands-on experience and insights directly applicable in work and life. The longer Associate Coaching Course, which will also be offered, runs over six months and has a similarly broad-based approach. It is designed for participants to acquire the competency, emerging as coaching practitioners, and is thus particularly well adapted to professionals currently ...

Centre for Coaching expands to Europe2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

In the loop with Coaching Circles – Top Performing Companies

New research shows that Coaching Circles are emerging as the natural successor to action learning as the best way to develop people and build strong, resilient organisations. By Janine Everson & Craig O'Flaherty Ask any HR professional what their number one concern is and they are likely to tell you: talent - how to recruit it and how to develop it. Organisations today demand leaders and managers who are adaptive, resilient and intelligent and able to solve complex problems under extreme pressure, and it is getting harder to find and motivate people who are up to the task.

In the loop with Coaching Circles – Top Performing Companies2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

Coaching in leadership development

by Craig O’Flaherty and Janine Everson The search for new insights on leadership and leadership development appears to be insatiable. Indian scholar and spiritual leader Sri Sathya Sai Baba in his Mahavakya* on Leadership remarks: “There are more than 350 definitions for the word Leadership in academic literature in the English language alone. It indicates the general confusion that prevails about the subject and also its complexity”. (Chibber 1995) Some scholars ((Arthur et al. 1999-2000; Day 2000) postulate that the intense focus on leadership development has arisen through the urgent need for organisations to find ways of building capacity to [...]

Coaching in leadership development2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

The impact of coaching on organisational change

by Moira Farr In order to manage the ongoing global and local changes that challenge organizations today, strong leadership is required. This case serves to illustrate how a South African fast moving consumer goods company was able to use integral coaching to transform itself from a conservative, management-controlled company, into an innovative leadership-driven organization. The case provides a practical example of how this company used integral coaching to develop its leadership throughout the organis.zation.. Employees were interviewed during the research process to ascertain their perspective of the impact of the coaching initiative in relation to themselves and the organisation. A [...]

The impact of coaching on organisational change2018-04-05T17:55:28+02:00

Coaching versus Mentorship versus Leading versus Management

by Craig O’ Flaherty It’s a perennial debate. What is coaching and how does it differ from other modalities or ways of being in a corporate context such as mentoring, leading and managing? These words are often thrown around interchangeably and yet describe very different ways of interacting with people. Coaching is probably the newest of these descriptors and yet the lack of real understanding of its roots, or way of showing up in a one-on-one or group situation, means that it is often used to label, justify or disguise actions and behaviours that are the antithesis of coaching. The role [...]

Coaching versus Mentorship versus Leading versus Management2018-04-05T17:55:29+02:00

Equipping Leaders to coach – an androgogic learning model

by Craig M.B O' Flaherty Coaching is a powerful way of building oneself and others in a manner that drives effectiveness and the ability to create new possibilities; both important elements of a leadership skill set. The relevance of coaching in this context is explored. It is argued that the learning philosophy, context, tools and processes utilised in order to enable leaders to master the subtleties of coaching need to be inspired by the same principles which research has shown facilitates adult learning. This creates an effective and powerful way of enabling leaders to master the complexities of coaching. Read [...]

Equipping Leaders to coach – an androgogic learning model2019-03-04T16:12:37+02:00
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