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On 6th May 2010 (day 2 of the EMCC Conference) I shall be co-presenting a workshop with Carol Whittaker entitled "Coaching for Social Cohesion: The Challenge of the 21st Century"
On 7th May I shall be presenting the highlights of my research "Towards Cultural Understanding in Coaching"
It's an honour to be invited to participate in this conference and be amongst some of the leaders in the field such as the keynote speakers: Bob Garvey, Linbert Sencer. David Megginson, John Blakey, Myles Downey and Clive Wilson. For the full programme see the link below:
http://www.emccouncil.org/uk/public/conferences/index.html
Venue: Holiday Inn Kensington Forum Hotel
97 Cromwell Road
London, GREATER LONDON SW7 4DN GB
I look forward to seeing you there!
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I have just spent a most enjoyable Christmas and New Year with my extended family in the Canary Islands – Spanish speaking Lanzarote.
My extended family are Dutch-speaking Surinamese, with a Portuguese son-in-law. Having travelled via. French-speaking Brussels we realised that we had juggled 5 different languages during the 12-day break – 6 if you count the Surinamese dialect.
Not only this, we all got on brilliantly and there was a spirit of flexibility, respect and tolerance in the air – factors that are attributed by Worldwork™ to successful competencies for international relations.
For more about the international profiler (TIP) please go to http://www.worldwork.biz or give us a call. I am a licensed practitioner of TIP and use it in combination with my coaching.
Have a great multi-cultural 2010...Read more
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I am delighted to say that following completion of my MA in coaching and mentoring practice, my research paper has been published in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Special Issue No. 3, pp. 64 - 81.
Please use the following link to read 'Towards Greater Cultural Understanding in Coaching'
http://www.business.brookes.ac.uk/research/areas/coachingandmentoring/volume/SP3_plaister-ten.pdf...Read more
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 Ergo … Is she speaking to a bunch of coconuts?!
As the British people listened to a public declaration of Sarah Brown’s love for husband Gordon at the Labour Party conference earlier this week, I couldn’t help viewing this from a cultural standpoint.
Frankly, do we care? Do we care that Sarah loves Gordon and calls him ‘my hero’ - not likely. We Brits probably don’t want to know about their private emotions any more than we want to know about the private life of a gnat. Nevertheless, in what Amanda Platell of Mail Online “I’m a huge fan of Sarah Brown, so why do I worry that suddenly she’s getting things so terribly wrong?” calls “Oprah Winfrey style politics”; for the second year running we have been treated to an expression of emotions from our ‘first lady’.
Sarah’s approach may well have worked in the USA (and I feel ...Read more
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 The book ‘Diversity in Coaching’, working with gender, culture, race and age points to the pressing need for coaches to attend to the complexity of environments characterised by cross-cultural teams across multinational companies and national borders; whilst calling for leaders to embrace individual differences regardless of gender, culture, race or age.
It is well-referenced; delivering academic rigour. The first of three sections sets the scene for diversity in coaching practice; with chapters on Europe (drawing on the Bresser report (2008)), North America and Australasia. The second section offers experiences from global executive coaching practitioners in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC nations) and Japan, the Middle East and South Africa. The third section focuses on ethnicity in the United States and United Kingdom and includes chapters on gender and age.
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News item reported in 'Coaching at Work,' volume 4: issue 2, page 10
“The world has changed and we must change with it”
M.A. research study echoes words of President Barack Obama
Oxford, UK - 22 January 2009: A research study from an M.A. student at Oxford Brookes University in the UK has reinforced the need for greater cultural understanding; at a time when President Obama in his inaugural address called for even greater cooperation and understanding between nations and the United Nations calls for increases in cultural awareness, knowledge and sensibilities in its 2008 State of World Population Report.
Cross-cultural coaching is “one of the hottest trends” in coaching, according to a statement made by the Association of Coaching in June 2008. However, cross-cultural coaching - sometimes referred to as global executive coaching or inter-cultural coaching - has been, up until this research study...Read more
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