Event Reports:

1.‘Conflict in the Workplace – How Coaching can make a difference’ Nov 23rd 2010 

More than 100 people attended this fantastic event on November 23rd in central London. Coaches from all over the UK were joined by colleagues from France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Russia, Bermuda, Ireland,Finland, Sweden and the USA. There were also HR professionals from various corporate organisations, who all gathered to explore the topical and very real issue of ‘Conflict in the Workplace’.

The participants all enjoyed 3 core interactive sessions that all took a different perspective on this subject.

1. Philip Brew MCC, of Coaching Development led on how to avoid conflict and explored how ‘contracting’ - or the lack of it - is a crucial ingredient in conflict.
2. Ed Modell PCC, incoming ICF global President, and Merle Rockwell ACC, took the Thomas Kilmann model as a useful tool to use once conflict has arisen.
3. Finally Aboodi Shabi, PCC from Newfield, looked at who we are individually when we come into contact with conflict and how we may better manage ourselves in these stressful situations

There was also the chance to:

• Hear Ed Modell speak about ICF global developments,
• Join in with a research project being kicked off by Professor David Grey of Surrey University,
• Give feedback to the UK ICF board team and ambassadors on what members would like to see more or and less of in 2011,
• Connect and network with fellow coaches and ICF members.

Finally, Nisha Pieris from KidsCo, a local London based children’s charity who the UKICF board are supporting in 2011 as part of our Coaching in the Community inititaive, came and spoke briefly about one of their Christmas initiatives. She invited participants to donate ‘goodies’ for hampers being collated by the charity for distribution at Christmas. 5 Big bags of goodies, and significant cash donations, were collected on the day and have been delivered to KidsCo ready for Christmas. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this worthwhile cause.

2. UKICF and UK ACTP Meeting with Ed Modell, ICF Global President 2011

Representatives of the ACTP’s who serve the UK market met this month with members of the UKICF board for their final meeting of 2010. 8 of the 12 schools were represented on the day. As usual, the meeting explored current trends in the UK coaching market, as observed by the training schools and the ICF, opportunities and ways of building a stronger UK coaching community. The outputs from the recent ‘ICF in Europe’ chapter leaders meeting in Latvia, was shared. As was the highlights of the recent ICF Global conference in Fort Worth.

Ed Modell, incoming ICF Global President had been invited to attend, and he took the opportunity to share many of the most up to date thinking and initiatives that the ICF Global board are looking to launch in the near future. These include various initiatives on branding, with the launch of the ‘I Care For' campaign (link), membership criteria, leadership development, regulation and thoughts on collaboration with other professional bodies.

It also provided the opportunity for the ACTPs to ask questions directly of the ICF global leadership, clarify approaches in certain areas ,and share some of their views, perspectives and aspirations with Ed.

All agreed it had been a very useful meeting, and the start of even closer direct connections between the ICF global team and the ACTP’s, alongside that already facilitated by the UKICF board team.

The next meeting between the UKICF and the ACTP’s will be held in Spring 2011.

1,007attendees; 261first-timers; 47speakers; 40 countries represented; 35breakout sessions; 7networking events;35 exhibits

ICF President Giovanna D’Alessio, MCC; UK ICF Chapter President-elect, Deborah Price, PCC; ICF President-elect Ed Modell, PCC; UK ICF Chapter President Kathryn Pope, PCC.

This year’s Global Conference in Fort Worth brought home, loud and clear, the truly international nature of the ICF. We, and our fellow attendees, watched a video at the opening ceremony that illustrated just how widespread our membership and coaching community – it was a powerful and moving experience as we each really absorbed the fact that we are truly a global organization and a strong voice reaching every little place of the globe and impacting the world. We are trying to source the video for you to see, so will keep you posted in next month's newsletter.

A range of international speakers took to the stage in addition to three of our very own UK Chapter member presenters - congratulations to John Whittington (Coaching Constellations), Jane Warrilow (Max Coaching) And Kathryn Pope/Altazar Rossiter (Projection in Coaching) !

The Fort Worth event introduced a brand new format for emerging collective intelligence and cross-pollinating ideas, called Global Conversations

A “graphic recording” of the Complexity Science, People, and Organizations session, one of the five Global Conversations explored during the week

4. Chapter Awards – Congratulations to ICF Turkey, Argentina, Los Angeles, France & Greater Richmond!

2010 ICF Chapter Award Winners: Top row: Los Angeles Chapter Board member Keith Miller, PCC; Los Angeles Chapter Presidentelect Carrie Kish; ICF Turkey Past President Ersa Aksuyek; Los Angeles Chapter President Rama Yaffe, PCC; Conference Education Steering Committee member Giuseppe Totino, ACC (Turkey); ICF Turkey President Gurkan Sarioglu; ICF France Board member Ludmila Egorova. Bottom row: ICF Richmond Chapter President Denise Kasper, ACC; ICF President Giovanna D’Alessio, MCC; ICF Argentina Chapter President Omar Osses.

Kim Freedman receives ICF President’s Award

Incoming GCA President Darcy Eikenberg (left)

with current president and 2010 ICF President’s

Award winner Kim Freedman.

2010 ICF Award Winners Celebrating Coaching Excellence

Genentech and the TINE Group named 2010 ICF International Prism Award winners

Pamela Weiss and Greg Gillis, PCC, accept the International

Prism Award for Genentech.

Sonja Iverson and Sikke Næsheim accept the International

Prism Award for the TINE Group.

ICF also launched the I Care For campaign at this year’s conference. This is the first visible element of the evolution of the ICF brand. ICF Past Presidents, Board members, attendees and I shared what we care for though videos, messages, social media and stories. As we listen for what drives our actions and our personal and professional lives, we started to get a sense of the possibility that this global community of more than 16,000 members is creating in the world.

Where can you download the session audio recordings?

ICF will begin to post audio recordings in late November. Please check www.Coachfederation.org/Conference for more information.