The Practice of Coaching

Through daring conversations coaches are invited to expand their awareness of global coaching practices. This area of focus encompasses all professional coaching domains. As coaching evolves, there is a need to expand the understanding of best practices and knowledge of theoretical models, skills and tools, and their applications.

These sessions are to support the relevance and importance of coaching practices across nations and cultures and provide opportunities to:

Question coaches and raise awareness of best practices;
Stretch the knowledge base as related to core competencies;
Encourage ongoing learning in approach and thinking between colleagues; and
Explore the knowledge and practice from other fields that can be directly applied to coaching.

The programs must focus on two distinct, but interrelated themes:

The diversity of new theoretical frameworks and techniques, their relevancy to core competencies and their application within coaching; and
Equip coaches to face the opportunities of tomorrow. Participants must leave with the tools and resources which will enhance their business.

CCEU: CC = Core Competency / PD - Personal Development / BD - Business Building / OT = Other Tools & Skills

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Overcoming the immunity to change: Opening a new pathway to improvement
Robert Kegan (USA) - View bio. View Robert's book. View Robert's books.
Sunday, September 25: 2:00-5:30 p.m. / 1400-1730
CCEU: 2.00 CC / 1.00 OT
Room: Islander F/G
This is an opportunity for you to "test drive" a new approach to coaching for sustainable personal change by applying it first to yourselves—with the co-designer of the "vehicle" practically sitting alongside you for the ride! Welcome to this novel, fast-moving, interactive, and illuminating learning space created by Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. This session is designed to jumpstart the "Immunity to Change" (ITC) coaching journey that clients regularly describe as "eye-opening" and "giving me a whole new platform for change."

How will the session work? When you enter, you will receive a one-page ITC map, a mostly-blank template. Through recurring sequences of reflective exercises, pair-shares, volunteer examples, and whole-group conversations, you will gradually develop an X-ray of your own "immunity to change" as it relates to some important improvement-goal of your own.

What will I gain when it's over?

A personal-growth experience for yourself—get some new thoughts, and feelings, as to how you can better meet an adaptive challenge of your own as an ever-improving coach;
A first-hand experience of a new approach to coaching for sustainable personal change based on the idea that the mind, like the body, has an immune system which can "protect" us from the very changes we need to make;
A new understanding for yourself, and your clients, of what to do about it that departs dramatically from the default "New Year's resolutions" approach that characterizes most improvement processes—i.e., sincere intentions to change; smart strategies for reducing counter-productive behavior; pledges to follow them; and heroic efforts to power through; and
Discover your own "hidden commitments" and "big assumptions" that currently make sustainable change impossible; and you will design your first experiment ideally suited to transforming your immune system.

Is it rocket science or not? How NASA builds teams
Diane Brennan, MCC (USA) - View bio. View Diane's book. View Diane's book.
Anne Choquette, PCC (Canada) - View bio.
Barbara Walton, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Tuesday, September 27: 8:30-10:00 a.m. / 0830-1000
CCEU: 1.00 CC / .50 OT
Room: South Pacific A/B
Prepare for lift off on a journey of exploration and discovery of four dimensions of leadership that emerged from a high profile astrophysicist's experience with near career ending failure. Out of adversity came a model that engages leaders and teams within technical organizations in the soft-side of leadership development. Using an evidence-based approach measuring eight behaviors and benchmarking performance, 4-D has provided assessment, workshops, and coaching to individuals and teams since 2003. Participants will gain insight and experience from three coaches who use and apply the 4-D Model with individuals and teams within NASA and various other organizations. The participants will also learn how the model allows for measuring leader and team behaviors, and discover how to shift the context and "stuckness" using 4-D's Context Shifting Worksheet (CSW). Rocket science or not? Let the countdown begin!

Profitable Leadership^TM
Tony Latimer, MCC (Singapore/UK) - View bio.
Monday, September 26: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. / 1030-1200
CCEU: 1.00 CC / .50 OT
Room: Islander F/G
Profitable is defined as yielding advantageous returns or results. The key assets available to leaders are their time, their knowledge, and their Integrity. The Profitable Leadership^TM framework shows corporate leaders how to avoid leadership bankruptcy by getting advantageous returns and results from all three areas, for themselves, their teams, and their organization. Developed by an Executive Coach with over 20 years experience in Asia-Pacific, this session will pay particular attention to the development of coaching cultures in organizations and be of interest to coaches working, or wanting to work, in the multi-national corporate arena of matrix and massively cross-cultural environments and provoke thinking on what they should be coaching these leaders on. In exploring coaching leaders on their leadership style and approach, the session will also highlight the dangers of teaching managers to use the most common coaching models in their approach to developing subordinates.

Warning: Feedback may be dangerous to your health
Ken Nowack (USA) - View bio.
Tuesday, September 27: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. / 1030-1200
CCEU: 1.00 CC / .50 OT
Room: South Pacific A/B
An important medical tenet is, "First do no harm." Participants will be given evidence-based research on the effectiveness of 360-degree feedback in light of meta-analytic studies indicating that one-third of all feedback interventions result in decreased performance and new evidence that 360-degree feedback has significant but weak effect sizes on behavior change. Participants will gain understanding of how feedback can cause social pain and the neurobiology of how social pain is associated with engagement, productivity, and health of employees. Participants will be given research on applying best practices to maximize learning from 360-degree feedback and to leverage the impact on behaviour change for individuals and teams. Specific recommendations and strategies will be presented to help organizations leverage the impact of using 360-degree feedback for strategic talent and leadership development.

China, the final frontier, transforming coaching to create a true global community
Angel Fang (China) - View bio.
Peter Barr, MCC (Australia) - View bio.
Lili Xu Brandt - Interpreter (China)
Sunday, September 25: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. / 1030-1230
CCEU: 1.5 CC / .50 BD
Room: South Pacific C/D
China is the last major coaching market to be developed. And it is only now becoming ready to be a real force in the coaching world! A passionate Chinese exec-turned-lawyer-turned-coach and the founder of the Chinese Business Coaching Alliance, Angel, will take participants into China's coaching world. She will touch upon the history of coaching in China, the current developments, and lead attendees to envision the luminous future. A devoted Buddhist, Angel will also draw comparisons between Buddhism and a Western coaching model that is being taught in China, namely Peter's "Born Genius" model, as an example of the East meets the West, where similar values are shared and cherished by different parts of the world alike. Peter will support Angel by sharing his Western experience of the Eastern coaching world, particularly how he sees coaching in China from his recent and intense experience there.

With the combined best wisdom from the East, mapped across some of the most cutting edge western coaching practices, this presentation promises to share with the new and most experienced coaches on how to truly impact the individual, the organization, the collective cultures of the world, and ultimately enlighten every soul on the core truth that we are one.

Money talk: Financial Coaching skills and being the change agent in this economy
Joan King, MCC (USA) - View bio. View Joan's book. View Joan's book. View Joan's book.
Evonne Ryan (USA) - View bio.
Matt Sapaula (USA) - View bio.
Sunday, September 25: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. / 1030-1230
CCEU: 1.5 CC / .50 BD
Room: Islander F/G
What is your coaching business missing? Stop ignoring the gorilla in the room—money. As a result of the great recession, it is the issue underlying business problems, family disputes, and the major cause of stress and health challenges for most coaching clients.

In this interactive session find out how coaches are becoming change agents, a critical part of the "new normal" solution for an empowered relationship with money and wealth. Experience a presentation within the session that motivates people to alter their financial future by allowing them to observe and experience what they have been missing. See what it takes to wake up and take action. Attend this session to learn how to use Financial Coaching tools to discover a new relationship with money and wealth.