International Business Coaching Seminar:
Coaching through Complexity:
Surviving and Thriving in Messes
London 22-23 September 2011
Sydney 24-25 November 2011
Stockholm (2012 date to be announced)
A two day experiential, professional and personal development seminar with Dr Geoffrey Abbott.
For advanced coaches, consultants and Talent/Learning & Development leaders from International organisations.
Critical Questions Addressed:
1. What practical approaches can coaches, consultants and their clients use to navigate the messy situations that are increasingly the reality of day-to-day international business?
2. What is the best mindset for ensuring these tools and approaches are used for the greatest possible advantage?
The seminar’s unique module / wave design is built around the Centre for International Business’s Coaching Knowledge Matrix©
Value Proposition
The seminar provides participants with sophisticated approaches to complex problems that can facilitate powerful coaching conversations and outcomes. Participants will come away with new ways of thinking and methodologies to assist the people they support to make better decisions - leading to better personal and professional results. The value proposition includes:
Knowledge
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Engage with the best knowledge and practice of international business coaching and complex systems thinking.
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Skills
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Learn new skills on how to apply knowledge to enhance the coaching impact to address 'messy problems'.
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Self Awareness
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Build self awareness about handling complexity, and identify the potential for developing cognitive complexity and paradoxical thinking.
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Network
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Access a global network international business and coaching.
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About the Seminar
The daily reality of international
executives is of uncertainty, ambiguity, diversity and paradox. This seminar
connects the latest thinking about international business to the high level
application of coaching methodologies. It invites participants to consider new
ways of approaching complexity – grounded in paradoxical thinking. Practical
and powerful coaching tools are introduced that are evidence-based – i.e. grounded
in the best of contemporary knowledge from across disciplines.
Recently, the attention of experienced
coaches and academics has been focused on how best to make use of coaching to
further the performance and satisfaction of people operating in the global
environment. The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching (Moral
& Abbott, 2011) explores this new territory.
It will mobilize tools and techniques
from the Companion, plus new knowledge from a cognitive revolution in
international management..
It will be experiential, based on
action learning principles. Dr Abbott will facilitate 8 closely interrelated
modules. These build on each other in a series of interconnected waves to build
knowledge and energy. The wave formula positions participants to continue the
momentum beyond the seminar and maximize transfer of learning.
Each wave module contains a (1) core concept, (2) coaching
tool, (3) experiential activity and (4) debrief. The modules
are:
1. The
critical complexity – coaching link
2. Playing
with paradoxical thinking
3. Leveraging
culture to advantage
4. Developing
a global mindset
5. Reframing
for better solutions
6. Navigating
multiple intelligences
7. Getting
the most from international virtual team coaching
8. Building
trust
Dr Abbott will explain the core concept and introduce a
coaching tool to apply the knowledge in an international business context.
Participants will practice the tool and debrief.
Dr Abbott will challenge
participants to synthesize the knowledge and examine alternative perspectives
on issues related to international business coaching. He will introduce and
reinforce paradoxical thinking as a means of sorting through contradictory
perspectives and ideas.
Presenter Profile
Geoffrey Abbott, PhD 
Dr Geoffrey Abbott is a leading authority on international coaching
and a master coach in this field. He is a lecturer, author, executive coach
consultant, and Director of the Centre for International Business Coaching, (see www.internationalbusinesscoaching.com)
His work gives attention to
how coaching methodologies can promote cognitive complexity in executives,
thereby better-equipping them to tackle the complexity of their business
contexts. He is an expert on applying paradoxical thinking styles to coaching conversations.
He believes coaching is most effective in the mode of ‘serious play’ – proposed
by American philosopher and educationalist John Dewey as the idea state for
problem solving.
Geoff lives in Brisbane
Australia, and is Corporate Educator with the Queensland University of
Technology Business School, where he teaches and coaches in Masters programs.
He facilitates corporate leadership development programs and facilitates
international programs on holistic systems thinking.
He is co-editor of the Routledge
Companion to International Business Coaching (Moral and Abbott, 2011), to which
he also contributed several chapters. He has written extensively on cross
cultural and global coaching. He recently presented his international coaching
research at the 2011 European Academy of Management Conference in Estonia.
He has extensive executive experience in corporate
strategy for the Special Broadcasting Service, Australia’s national radio and
television multicultural broadcaster.
Investment, Registration
London £1,750 + VAT (London)
Sydney $ 2,200 (GST included)
The fee (which excludes accommodation) is inclusive of:
· a two day seminar comprising eight 90 - minute interrelated waves/modules
· support materials
· morning coffee/tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days, cocktails day 1
· a follow up Skype coaching session with Dr Abbott
· Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching (Moral & Abbott, 2011) value £30.00
Email: office@internationalbusinesscoaching.com
Phone: +61 (0) 414207434 (to the
Centre’s office in Australia),
+44 (0) 1932 267597 (to the Centre’s representative in London –
Aspecture)
Note: This seminar
can be used
as an introduction to a four-day workshop being conducted in 2012. Participants
in this seminar will receive a discounted rate for the full workshop.
If
you would like to obtain further information regarding local details of the
program for each of the seminars, please contact the CIBC Country
Directors as follows;
London, UK; Malcolm Nicholson malcolmnicholson@aspecture.com
Sydney, Australia; Dr Geoffrey Abbott office@internationalbusinesscoaching.com
Stockholm, Sweden; Charlotte Nilsson charlotte@mindmatch.se
Venues
Australia, Sydney: Sydney, Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Rushcutters Bay
United Kingdom, London: Bentley Hotel, Knighhtsbridge
Schedule: Day 1:
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
and introductions
09:00 - 12:30 Modules 1
and 2
Wave 1:
Complexity and Coaching
Core
Concept
:
The nature of complexity and the role of coaching in promoting cognitive
complexity. The language of complex adaptive systems is introduced for
embedding complexity into coaching conversations. The group will explore
differences between simple, complicated, complex and chaotic situations using
the Cynefin Framework.
Model
: A coaching model will be
introduced that provides a means of getting beneath the surface of big issues. Various
ways of exploring complexity will be presented.
Coaching
Exercise
:
Participants will coach each other on a significant real issue using the
coaching model, giving attention to the language of complexity.
Wave 2:
Paradoxical Thinking
Core
Concept
:
Paradoxical thinking will be explored as a means of establishing creative tension
to promote innovation and creativity in developing responses to complexity.
Model
: A conversational model
will be introduced to show how seemingly contradictory forces can be leveraged
and synthesised for advantage through ‘creative dialogue’.
Coaching
Exercise
:
Coaching conversations will be played out to explore paradoxical relationships
within real issues. The coaching challenge is to gain clarity within the core
paradoxes so that a creative tension can be established and leveraged.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 17:00 Modules
3 and 4
Wave 3:
Leveraging Culture
Core
Concept
:
The introduction will focus on how culture can be mobilised as a positive
influence in coaching, applying paradoxical thinking to cultural orientations
to promote creativity.
Model
: Some of the core cultural
dimensions will be defined and explored (from Hofstede and others, and applied
in Rosinski’s Cultural Orientations Framework). The use of the models will be
linked to the previous session on paradoxical thinking.
Coaching
Exercise
:
The language of cultural differences will be explored using a real
international business issue as presented by participants.
Wave 4:
Global Mindset
Core
Concept
: Global
Mindset has emerged as a construct that predicts success in international business.
GM will be explained and explored.
Model
: A simple model of GM and
a tool for measurement will be provided.
Coaching
Exercise
:
Participants will coach each other to enhance GM.
17:00 - 18:30 Cocktails
(included in the fee)
19:30 – 22:00 Dinner at a local restaurant (optional).
Schedule Day 2:
08:00 - 09:00 Mindfulness
Mindfulness will be introduced as a construct and practice that is conducive to clear thinking in complex situations. A simple technique will be introduced for the practice of mindfulness.
The mindfulness technique will be practiced by the group.
09:00 – 12:30 Modules 5 and 6
Wave 5: Reframing
Core Concept
:
Complex situations are defined by the existence of multiple realities. Different ways of reframing to encourage the exploration of different perspectives will be presented.
Model
:
A coaching tool based on Bolman & Deal’s Reframing model (from org behaviour) will be introduced and linked to Ken Wilber’s Integral Model (from philosophy and psychology).
Coaching Exercise
:
Participants will coach each other using the tool to explore issues.
Wave 6: Multiple intelligences
Core Concept
:
Many kinds of intelligence have been defined. Emotional, Collective, and Cultural Intelligence will be given prominence and linked to complex international business situations.
Model
:
Easily administered models of Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Intelligence will be introduced as coaching tools.
Coaching Exercise
:
Participants will choose an issue be coached with attention being placed on different intelligences using the models and discussion points.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 17:00 Modules 7 and 8, Concluding Session
Wave 7: International Team Coaching
Core Concepts
: International virtual teams are increasingly the vehicle for business success. Group life will be explored in complex situations in the international business environment.
Model
:
An exercise for exploring complex team relationships will be introduced.
Coaching Exercise
:
A group discussion will be facilitated about paradoxes play in international teams. Group coaching exercises will following using the core paradoxes in action in the room.
Wave 8: Trust and Risk
Core Concept
:
Trust is the focus of the session. Attention will be given to the role of the coaching in modelling and facilitating trust.
Model
:
A model of authentic trust will be presented.
Coaching Exercise
:
Trust building will be discussed in groups and debriefed.
Concluding Session
The waves will be synthesized in a final participant-participant coaching session and group debrief. Participants will finalise a plan for applying the learning.
Follow up Coaching Session
Participants will have an opportunity to take their learning further with a 1-1 Skype session with Dr Abbott after the seminar (included in the fee).
Accreditation
Some participants may be seeking recognition of their experience, training and skill level for their consulting and coaching work. Following the seminars, the Centre invites a limited number of people to apply for qualification as International Business Master Coaches. This requires attendance at the four day program and further mentoring with Dr Abbott. Accreditation comes with personal endorsement by Dr Abbott and opens opportunities for associate work with the Centre.
Coaching accreditation is different around the world. The Centre does not accredit people on the basis of numbers of hours coached, nor on the capacity to meet a number of arbitrary criteria. The accreditation process is selective and is based on a holistic analysis of the individual’s claims to Master Coach level.
Applicants will be asked to submit an application addressing these criteria:
· Professional Experience: Senior level international business experience (including entrepreneurs, consultant, coach)
· Intercultural Competencies: Demonstrated capacity to live and work across cultures
· Consultancy Skills: Demonstrated knowledge of and expertise in using advanced consultancy skills (definition dependent upon the context of the participant)
Familiarity and Expertise in IBC Approaches: A capacity to apply the key models and methodologies of International Business Coaching as covered in the seminar.
Centre for International Business Coaching
Knowledge Wave Matrix
©
CIBC seminars are structured around a unique Knowledge Wave Matrix that guides participants through parallel experiences of reflection and action. The Wave Matrix works on the principle that each module is interdependent. The first and last session connects with the developing leadership and coaching stories of participants.
The module have structure and content designed to inform each participant’s context of leadership and coaching and to create ‘waves’ of knowledge that are relevant and can be immediately applied in practice. While there is a linear progression, the matrix design allows for a seamless integration of the knowledge through deliberate connections between and across the modules.
There are dedicated ‘wave’ sessions that facilitate the connecting of knowledge so that it makes sense. Seminars come with coaching sessions with Geoffrey Abbott so that participants can inject their needs at the start and ensure they are met as they move beyond the seminar. Below is an indicative wave matrix of the comprehensive four day seminar being run through 2012.
