Why are reflection and supervision important for coaches? How might increased self awareness improve competence? What kind of activities might a coach consider to develop their own reflective practices? This practical book helps coaches to improve their practice through reflection and professional support in their work. It explains how these developments can be made alone, with colleagues or with a supervisor, utilising a range of tried and tested frameworks. Starting with a section on the function of reflection and supervision in the coaching arena, the book moves on to discuss ways that the processes of reflection and supervision might be analyzed. Finally, the book addresses some specific models that coaches might like to try to improve their practice. The book assumes that the reader has no prior knowledge of the theories used and contains concise summaries of them as well as giving references to further reading for those who are interested. It also contains activities which will help the reader to think carefully about how they are doing things in order to identify options for improvement. Reflective Practice and Supervision for Coaches is a resource that can be used over time, with activities that can be repeated intermittently as needs arise. It provides key reading for professional coaches and supervisors as well as those who facilitate reflection upon working practices in the coaching profession.
Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish training and development needs ¢ identify potential for promotion ¢ assess and select new recruits to your organization or using the centre in some other way. To make this assessment possible involves a huge investment in time, money and effort to plan, design, administer and run each centre and to effectively analyse and use all of the data it will generate. These three volumes are designed to help you set up and run your own assessment and development centres within your organization. Alternatively, if you already run centres, the manuals will allow you to evaluate and improve your administration, planning and assessment as well as to introduce new exercises. Volume 2: Assessment Activities contains full documentation for the participants, the assessors and the programme manager for running a range of assessment simulations of: ¢ meetings where co-operation is called for ¢ meetings where participants have conflicting aims ¢ activities where participants must plan for contingencies and handle interruptions ¢ presentations and talks ¢ one-to-one interviews ¢ report and proposal writing exercises. Other volumes: Volume 1 Planning and Administration Volume 3 In-Tray Simulations Each volume is available separately or as a three volume set.
Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish training and development needs ¢ identify potential for promotion ¢ assess and select new recruits to your organization or using the centre in some other way. To make this assessment possible involves a huge investment in time, money and effort to plan, design, administer and run each centre and to effectively analyse and use all of the data it will generate. These three volumes are designed to help you set up and run your own assessment and development centres within your organization. Alternatively, if you already run centres, the manuals will allow you to evaluate and improve your administration, planning and assessment as well as to introduce new exercises. Volume 1: Planning and Administration contains important programme information such as: ¢ a range of reproducible assessment documentation ¢ sample programmes for an assessment and a development centre ¢ guidance on how to introduce and publicize your centres ¢ ’lecture notes’ for briefing participants and assessors ¢ an administrative blueprint, including flowcharts, to help you run your centres ¢ ideas for evaluating the success of your centres. Other Volumes: Volume 2 Assessment Activities Volume 3 In-Tray Simulations Each volume is available separately or as a three volume set.
Do you need to work well with other people?Are you curious about the games people play?Are you keen to learn new approaches and skills?This book: - explains why relationships at work are sometimes so difficult- describes frameworks for developing self awareness, flexibility and confidence- contains plenty of practical suggestions for increasing relationship and team building skills- and includes specific ideas for handling stress and changeJulie Hay has taken models used by psychotherapists worldwide, converted them into terms that can be easily understood by all of us, and related them specifically to what happens at work.Drawing on examples from a broad spread of organisations, she shows how we can use these theories to interpret the dynamics between people and make better choices about our responses.To help us expand our range of options, Julie takes us gently through some self-awareness activities so that we can eliminate unhelpful patterns from our past and replace them with resourceful new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.This edition has been updated to include several of Julie's developments of the models, which now place even more emphasis of the positive psychology of Transactional Analysis (TA). There is also an extra chapter that contains an intriguing framework for bringing many of the ideas together in a way that allows us to predict how best to interact with someone new - or someone we know already when they are stressed.After more than 45 years experience as an employee, supervisor, manager, trade unionist, trainer and consultant, Julie is able to draw her examples from industry, the public sector, local and central government. She is an internationally - accredited expert who has taught TA for over 25 years in Europe, Australasia, India, Asia, North, Central and South America. With Julie's knack of making the complex seem easy, this book is full of ideas for getting the benefits of TA in the workplace.
Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish training and development needs ¢ identify potential for promotion ¢ assess and select new recruits to your organization or using the centre in some other way. To make this assessment possible involves a huge investment in time, money and effort to plan, design, administer and run each centre and to effectively analyse and use all of the data it will generate. These three volumes are designed to help you set up and run your own assessment and development centres within your organization. Alternatively, if you already run centres, the manuals will allow you to evaluate and improve your administration, planning and assessment as well as to introduce new exercises. Volume 3: In-Tray Simulations contains full documentation for the participants, the assessors and the programme manager for running in-tray simulations of varying levels of complexity. Each exercise contains: ¢ briefing papers to explain the exercise to participants ¢ background information ¢ items of correspondence, reports, messages and so on for participants to deal with ¢ guidelines to help assessors evaluate the actions taken and relate these to assessment criteria. Other volumes: Volume 1 Planning and Administration Volume 2 Assessment Activities Each volume is available separately or as a three volume set.
This work presents an approach to mentoring that reflects current organizational realities: flatter structures; learning companies; career mobility; portfolio building; and flexible career options. It aims to help create developmental alliances between equals, inside or outside an organization.
You are situated on Homebase, a station in space in a galaxy far from Earth, where you work for a space exploration agency. News has come in of the discovery of a new planet, Enernova, where there is a valuable source of powerful new energy that will enable your community to thrive for the next millennium. This is a commercial opportunity for your organization. However, you have heard that your competitors are also aware of this discovery and are expected to reach Enernova within the next 50 light years.This is the opening of the Participant Brief for the simulation Mission to Enernova. The exercise requires that participants, working on their own or in teams, budget, plan and present their strategy for reaching Enernova safely. The quality of their decisions on which route to follow, which crew members and equipment to take, as well as the levels of fuel, food and stores they will need, will be put to the test when the simulation itself unfolds.Mission to Enernova can be used as a teambuilding simulation to explore group dynamics, information handling, planning, decision making, communication and influencing skills, teamworking, presentation skills, flexibility, contingency planning, risk management, time management and working under pressure.The content of the simulation - a mission to a far-flung planet - is something that will be alien to managers. Yet the processes and skills involved in handling the simulation, for example interpersonal skills, leadership, creativity, decision making and so on, represent some of the fundamental competencies for team leaders and managers at all levels.The simulation includes full instructions for the team facilitator wishing to use it as a team development exercise. There are also programme notes for an assessment or development centre, should the simulation be used in its more formal application. All of the participants' materials are reusable or photocopiable.
This manual contains four sets of job simulation exercises, each comprising a number of activities that can be run in sequence or as stand-alone sessions. The simulations can be used for assessment centers or for training. For assessment purposes, there are two optional competence frameworks: managerial and professional. Each activity works as follows: Participants are required to analyze information about the situation and prepare to support a specific, allocated project at a meeting; Then, working as teams, the participants share information, choose one of the projects, and select project team members; The teams are given more information so they can prepare a project plan, including a cash flow forecast; Finally, each team is expected to manage the project remotely, dealing with various problems that arise as the simulation unfolds. The simulations are coded for certain situations: Recommendations, Planning, Contingency, and all activities combined - being run in sequence.
In this serialized mentoring pack, the 15 issues guide the reader through the stages of mentoring. Photocopies can be made of each issue, which include guidance on the stages of mentoring, practical explanations of various theoretical models and frameworks, and how to apply them. There is also a range of questionnaires and other activities that aim to help the reader get the most out of the metoring process.
Written for people with some knowledge of transactional analysis, this text contains ideas for teaching TA to others in ways that aim to make it memorable and accessible. It sets out the key principles of developmental TA, at the same time illustrating how to explain these concepts in a style that captures the essence of early TA writings.
Have you struggled to see God fathering you throughout your life? Julie McGhghy began the first Father's Day card she sent to her biological father when she was 14 years old with Hey Dad, It's Me! After meeting him when she was 16 years old, they built a relationship that always seemed guarded. At her dad's funeral, she learned why. Julie's dad felt guilty for having left her and her brother when they were small children and letting another man adopt them. For many years afterward, she mentally constructed letters she would have sent her dad explaining why he didn't need to feel guilty. Julie was not fatherless. God fathered her better than any earthly father could have. Julie is one of millions of people who grew up with a physically or emotionally absent father. If you are one of them, or if you minister to someone who is one of them, then read Hey Dad, It's Me! to learn how God has also fathered you. If you don't feel loved or lovable because your father was not present and didn't love you, read how God loved Julie, and loves you, unconditionally and does all the things you wanted your father to do. If you declare by faith that God is "God the Father," but you are unable to see that God has actually fathered you throughout your life, read Hey Dad, It's Me! Julie will help you see that God is not just your Heavenly Father, but He actively fathers you here and now because He loves you.
Immensley popular in the 'seventies, with best-sellers 'Games People Play', 'I'm OK You're OK' and 'Born to Win', TA has continued to develop and there are now many new concepts. There is also a world-wide association with members in at least 60 countries. With its own special blend of academically-respected theory and user-friendly jargon, transactional analysis continues to be an excellent framework for helping people understand human nature.
Aiming to show the reader how to deal effectively with others in the workplace, this text examines: how to build rapport and get on someone else's wavelength; maintaining good relationships; effective channels of communication, and when to use them; working styles, and how they help and hinder us; and motivating yourself and others, and persuasion and leadership styles for maximum motivation and impact.
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