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Live meetings with a huge purpose. . . . Intimate, senior-level, in-depth discussions about the crucial issues of coaching in organizations. Limited to 35 or fewer people, our symposia promise important professional opportunities:
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Learn deeply by doing - Participate in consulting and coaching action teams to help real-life participants with real-life problems in real time.
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Get the big picture - Improve your ability to leverage coaching in organizations by understanding this emerging profession like never before.
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Engage deeply in critical subjects - Dialogue with coaches, program managers, client organizations, educators, researchers, and coaching firms.
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Meet your peers - This is a venue exclusively focused on coaching in organizations. Enjoy the rare opportunity to interact with and learn about your most important issues, and help others with theirs.
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Take practical tools and new perspectives home - Through conversation with colleagues, learn and develop new tools and practices with immediate applicability to your own work.
Save The Dates – May 31 and June 1, 2012
ICCO Symposium:
Coaching During VUCA Times
To be held at Wellington Management, Boston MA
According to Wikipedia, VUCA “is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the late 1990s and derives from military vocabulary and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range of organizations, including everything from for-profit corporations to education.
It seems an apt acronym given the continuing economic and societal turmoil that mark our times.
So much so that the next of ICCO’s renowned Symposia will explore how to grow talent and be a leader in VUCA times in the context of leadership development and executive coaching. This event will provide you with an opportunity to explore practices, frameworks and solutions that organizations can use to ensure that they maintain and grow their leadership bench into the future. Regardless of your industry and current focus, this combination promises to be a purposeful, provocative and problem solving dialogue.
ICCO Symposia are powerful learning experiences. Participants develop real-time approaches for case study presenters’ compelling concerns. For case presenters it is an opportunity to literally receive thousands of dollars of free coaching and consulting from some of the world’s best coaches and consultants.
It’s open, authentic dialogue, safely held in a marketing-free zone, with seasoned professionals. So please save the dates of May 31 and June 1, 2012 and join us for this symposium.
ICCO Upcoming Webinar Series
Managing Expectations, Enabling Results – The Webinar Series
In coaching and consulting, the relationships established and the expectations initially set between the coaching provider and the coaching purchaser, contribute to the success of the intervention. When shared understandings are formalized through contracting conversations, it creates a strong foundation and frame for the program. Both parties articulate and align on what’s needed, who will provide it, and then agree upon and finalize acceptable terms and conditions. Expectations must be managed to avoid or resolve any breakdowns during the delivery of the program. There are key principles to apply and assumptions to challenge that can keep all parties grounded, coordinated, and moving ahead.
Contracting for Coaching: Managing Expectations, Enabling Results is a series of three webinars that will address these topics:
- Issues in Contracting for Coaching (session one) explores the most critical areas of concern when contracting, why they are important, and recommendations about how to deal with them.
- Contracting Between Coaching Services Provider and Coaching Services Purchaser (session two) examines this crucial relationship and the agreements that need to be developed for the work to be done well.
- Contracting Between Coaching Services Provider and the Client and Their Manager (session three) examines re-contracting with a client as well as the valuable agreements that should be aligned on between the services provider and the client’s manager.
In each of the sessions, the co-presenters, John Bennett and John Lazar, will offer their perspectives and share their knowledge about the topics, challenge participants’ thinking, and provide useful resources and tools that can be applied. The session process will include delivery of content (principles, key distinctions, illustrations, recommendations, tools, etc.), and dialogue with participants through “open mike,” polling, and a formal questions and answer period. Expect to leave with new insights and distinctions, knowledge, and tools that you can apply. For each session, you will have access to its PowerPoint deck and audio recording.
Who Should Attend:
Coaching practice and service leaders, coaches and consultants, OD practitioners, HRD professionals, researchers, and educators.
About ICCO:
ICCO has been sponsoring quality programs globally for the past six years. This unique ICCO series will use presentation, case studies, and discussions to explore these topics.
Register now. Come to learn, share, inquire, and develop new solutions for recurrent contracting challenges. ICCO has applied to the ICF for 1.25 hours of core competency CCEUs per session attended; acceptance is pending.
Dates:
Session 1: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 1-2:15pm ET
Session 2: Wednesday, January 18, 1-2:15pm ET
Session 3: Wednesday, February 15, 1-2:15pm ET
Cost:
Series (all three sessions): ICCO Members - $29; Nonmembers - $79
For Member registration, click here.
For Nonmember registration, click here.
Co-presenters:
John L. Bennett, PhD, PCC and John B. Lazar, MA, MCC
John L. Bennett, PhD, PCC, is director of the MS in Executive Coaching and assistant professor of behavioral science at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte. Dr. Bennett is a teacher, researcher, author, executive coach, and consultant. Currently, he serves as president of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching (GSAEC). Dr. Bennett is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world on topics related to leadership, change, and executive coaching.
John B. Lazar, MA, MCC, has been a performance consultant and coach since 1983, and has served as an executive coach to CEOs, executives, and senior managers for the past 17 years. John is a founding member and past President of the Board of Directors of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO). He is co-founder, owner, and Executive Editor of IJCO The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations®. He has made presentations to national and international audiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Belgium, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China on topics including leadership, management, emotional intelligence, and evaluation.
ICCO Teleforums
ICCO Teleforums are the conversations between the conversations, dialogue around some of the unanswered questions or unexplored territory that our audience wants to talk about. Some of our symposia are seeded from these conversations and it's a way to dot the 'I's' and cross the 'T's' from past events.
Upcoming Teleforums
Date: February 7, 2012
Speaker: J. Keith Dunbar, Director Leadership Academy, Defense Intelligence Agency
Topic: Research to Practice: A Leadership Development Project
Keith will share results from the LeadershipDev 2011 research project that examined the patterns and design dimensions in leadership programs in order to share actionable steps that organizations should consider to enhance leadership development activities.
For Member registration, click here.
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Date: March 22, 2012
Speaker: Stewart Levine
Topic: Building Powerful Collaborations
More details coming soon.
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Date: April 18, 2012
Speaker: Joshua Ehrlich, PhD
Topic: Mindful Leadership: Focusing for Performance
All of us are running faster as technology and the pace of business shred our attention. We need to take back control by learning to stop, reflect and focus. Focusing attention mindfully is an especially critical skill for leaders and their teams.
For Member registration, click here.
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Date: June 26, 2012
Speaker: Steve Arneson, Ph.D
Topic: Developing Your Leadership Brand
Steve Arneson, author of Bootstrap Leadership, will share his tips and techniques for developing your own leadership brand. Steve will share his advice and ideas on leadership self-development, and give you a blueprint for taking your leadership game to the next level. Through a series of simple reflection exercises, Steve will help you develop your own plan for learning and growing as a leader.
Registration details coming soon.
Date: September 18, 2012
Speaker: Linda Gartland
Topic: Using the 16 PF (Personality Factors)
More details coming soon.
Registration details coming soon.
Date: October 24, 2012
Speaker: Nancy Brennock, Director, Textron University
Topic: Career Development at Textron through succession planning, selection and coaching.
More details coming soon.
Registration details coming soon.
Date: November 8, 2012
Speaker: Beverly Flaxington
Topic: S.H.I.F.T.
Beverly will discuss the S.H.I.F.T. Model ™ for change management from latest book and its application to executive coaching.
Registration details coming soon.
ICCO Lab
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Cancellation and Refund Policy for Symposia
If cancellation notice is received within 30 days or more before the start date, a 15% administrative fee will be held back from registration fee and the balance refunded.
If cancellation notice is received less than 30 days prior to the start date, fees will not be refunded.
For more information or to pre-register for these Symposia, click here to contact Alexia Longacre
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