Current Events

 

Transformational Coaching Workshop

3rd & 4th March 2010

Professor Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith 

Transformational Coaching enables coachees to create fundamental shifts in the way they work, through transforming their way of thinking, feeling and behaving in relation to others.  It is our contention that this is achieved through focusing on the shift that needs to happen live in the room, so that a sustained change takes place, beyond the coaching session.

Transformational Coaching sits at one end of a spectrum of coaching.  It focuses on helping clients transform how they think, feel and behave, when working on their issues, in such a way that they will also create a ‘knock-on shift' in the wider system of which they are part.

For more information see the Brochure: Transformational Coaching Workshop 2009

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A Workshop with Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley is one of today's most sought-after and influential management philosophers. She has published best selling book "Leadership and the New Science", "A Simpler Way", "Turning to One Another" and "Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time". 

Bath Consultancy Group is delighted to welcome Margaret to a special workshop where guests from different aspects of the Public Sector will come together providing a rich diverse mix of people who all have a stake in making things happen quicker and better. This workshop has kindly been sponsored by the Health Foundation and The Whitehall Innovation Hub, National School for Government and DCLG.

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Coaching Supervision Network One Day Workshop

This one day workshop on Ethical Maturity will lead participants through the stages and steps of moving from an ethics of duty to an ethics of trust within the helping professions.  It will offer a four stage model of building trust in relationships and a four stage model of ethical decision making.  The day will use a variety of teaching/learning strategies:  background reading, short input, small group discussions, plenary sessions, one to one coaching and supervision sessions, live practice in ethical decision making, discussion case examples and plenary session. The cost is £150 per person and a non refundable deposit of £75 is required to secure a place, the balance payable six weeks before the event. We will allocate places on a first come first served basis.

European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC)

Annual Conference in Prague.

November 2009
26th - 28th November
Gil Schwenk will be presenting a session titled “Is coaching becoming a management cop-out?”.

Responding to Climate Change - How to match organisational capacity with effective strategic and operational response

Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ

Speakers

Event details

What enables one organisation to tackle climate change more effectively than another? How can leaders identify when initiatives are likely to stall and what is needed in order to create progress? This workshop presents PACT, a research-based framework for strategic capacity building designed to help organisations respond to pressure for climate change mitigation and adaptation - as well as other sustainable development imperatives - and identify strategic pathways for effective response.

Fiona Ellis has been a director and managing consultant of Bath Consultancy Group over the past ten years. Her work includes leadership and HR development, culture change and whole-system transformation. She has worked internationally for clients in the oil industry, television, telecoms and financial services as well as government and health sector organisations in the UK. Fiona leads the consultancy's HiTech service group as well as its emerging practice for building change capacity in a low carbon world.

David Ballard is a director of Alexander Ballard Ltd, which he co-founded in response to demands for a consultancy with expertise in business strategy, the environment, sustainable development, communications, organisational change and social transformation. David led the development of PACT, which is currently being used as a core element of the UK's first Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Economic Analysis. He has a strong background in business strategy and a prolonged experience of working in the sustainability field for organisations in commercial and governmental sectors. His deep understanding of change at the organisational, personal and social level gives him a unique command of the issues inherent in developing sharp, creative and commercially viable responses to climate change and other related sustainability issues.

The talks will appeal to anyone with a leadership role in organisations, as well as those who are involved in HR, leadership and organisation development, or the Corporate Social Responsibility field. They will also be relevant to academics and to others who are interested in the broader sustainability agenda

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Transformational coaching workshop

14th and 15th September 2009, Barrow Castle, Bath.

This two day workshop offers a chance for participants to work on developing their transformational coaching skills and explores how this method of coaching might be useful in their current coaching practice. We will illustrate and practice how transformational coaching focuses on creating a shift in the thinking, feelings and behaviour of the coachee at each stage of the CLEAR process (Contracting, Listening, Exploring, Action, and Review). In doing so, we will also compare it to other types of coaching framework. The workshop provides an invaluable opportunity for experienced coaches to increase the impact of their coaching and work with the two leading practitioners in transformational coaching. The cost per participant for this two day course will be £450.00 plus VAT. Please contact

Fiona Benton at Bath Consultancy Group on 01225 333737 or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to secure a place on this workshop which has a limited number of places. As usual a non refundable deposit of £100 is required to secure a booking.  

Download Brochure:  Transformational Coaching Flyer 2009 70 Kb

The Organisation Workshop

Tuesday 15th September 2009 

The Organisation Workshop gets to the heart of partnership in organisation life - why partnership is critical to organisational success, what gets in the way of it developing, and the role of leaders in making it happen. In this dynamic workshop, participants experience the deep, impersonal drivers of organisational behaviour, as we focus on the worlds of tops (executives), middles (middle management), bottoms (employees) and customers, during turbulent times.

The next Organisation Workshop programme, "Leading Beyond Boundaries" will be led by Bath Associate, John Watters on 15th September 2009 in London.

For more information download:  Leading Beyond Boundaries 1 Mb

July 2009
1st - 2nd in Grado Italy. Peter Hawkins is giving a key note speech to the EATA conference

Past Events

May 2009
13th May 2009 - Engaging Action and Learning in Turbulent Times - Making a Positive Difference - A Bath Consultancy Group Conference
Given the really tough challenges of today, how do we harness creative power and energy for sustainable growth and change? When financial pressures can be overwhelming, how can we rebuild trust with our people, investors and customers? And in particular, how can organisational leaders engage their people in tackling the problems that confront them?

‘Engaging Action and Learning in Turbulent Times’ is convened by the Bath Consultancy Group in association with the journal Action Learning: Research & Practice and Inter-logics to bring together people from private and public sectors internationally to share and explore what’s happening and what works to make a real difference to performance and outcomes.

Download conference flyer for further details:  Conference Brochure 185 Kb

December 2008 
Tuesday 2nd December - Integrating Working Cultures Workshop - How to Successfully Integrate Companies, Departments and Teams
In the midst of these most turbulent economic conditions many organisations…across all three sectors…are consolidating, merging or making acquisitions in the hope that they can achieve greater efficiencies, strategic advantage and enhanced customer service. But evidence shows that only 25% of mergers and acquisitions succeed in delivering these aspirations…with failure to integrate cultures most often cited as the main reason. Indeed, due diligence in integrating legacy cultures is often neglected in preference to the many more tangible matters that need attention, with disastrous consequences.
Download flyer:  Integrating Working Cultures Flyer 176 Kb

November 2008
Coaching at Work conference - London 26th November. Peter Hawkins  is chairing a day on Embedding a Coaching Culture and giving the key note talk.

September 2008
Fiona Ellis has been selected as a speaker at the The Role of HR in the Process of Organisational Change on the 25^th September 2008.

The conference is organised by Synthesis Events and will be chaired by Jo Causon, Director of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Charted Management Institute.

Fiona Ellis has been invited onto a panel discussing the role that HR should take in organisational change management and how HR can anticipate market needs to formulate strategies to improve organisational effectiveness. The session will also touch on how HR professionals can achieve buy-in for change strategies from board level and the skills needed in order to become champions of change.

Other sessions during the day conference will include:

• The Process of Change - from Conception to Completion
• The Traditional Role of HR in Change Management Processes - Does it need to change?
• Assessing the Impact of Change
• Skills Mapping and Re-deployment Strategies
• The Critical Nature of Communicating Change
• Supporting Employees through Change
• Leadership for Change

16 September - CIPD Annual Conference, Harrogate.
Peter Hawkins chaired a popular case study session at the 2008 CIPD Conference in Harrogate. Ernst & Young’s Director of Leadership & Partner Development,  Andrew Wright discusses the partner leadership development programme that Bath Consultancy Group has been delivering internationally.

Andrew spoke about: 

• How Ernst & Young moved from 12th place to 5th place in the Sunday Times ‘Best big companies to work for’ 
• How culture change enabled Ernst & Young to accelerate their growth in the UK
• What is culture and how to achieve cultural change within an organisation

For further information on this year’s conference and for the 2009 Conference in Manchester, click here.

15 - 16 September 2008 - Embodied Leadership & Systems Thinking Workshop
A unique workshop to connect the power of two streams of leading edge practice which are rarely brought together - Systems Thinking & Embodied Leadership. The workshop, held to great acclaim for the first time in the UK last year, is an exciting fusion between the work of two of North America's pioneering teachers on leadership - Wendy Palmer and Barry Oshry.
Download:  Embodied Leadership & Systems Thinking Workshop  780 Kb

11 September - Managing Partners Forum Conference on Marketing, London. 
"The Leadership Challenge for Marketing Departments".  Peter is talking to the International Marketing Conference on how Marketing can take a leadership role. 

May 2008
23 May - APECS conference at Henley Management College Chaired by Peter Hawkins who will also give Key note speech on Ensuring Return on Investment in Coaching.
Download:  Developing an Effective Coaching Strategy 63 Kb

12 May - Coaching Supervision: Master Class for European Mentoring and Coaching Council. London

April 2008 
1 - 2 April - Ensuring your coaching delivers a return on investment.
Master class in Belfast for the Association of Coaching by Peter Hawkins.

March 2008
17 - 19 March - International Action Learning Conference
We are delighted to be working with Henley Management College and Routledge (publishers of the international journal Action Learning; research & practice) to organise the 2008 International Conference on Action Learning, entitled ‘Practices, Problems & Prospects'.

The conference is bringing together academics and practitioners from around the world, who are working with action learning and who have an interest in developing the method.  Organised around three complementary (and of course overlapping) streams of practice, the conference offers:

• The ‘refereed paper', which critically appraises the development of the method from the perspective of the researcher,
• The ‘account of practice', which focuses more on practical applications of action learning around the world and what the AL community might learn through this,
• The ‘workshop' - something more experimental, perhaps even provocative.

We're noticing that Action Learning is experiencing something of a renaissance (although some might well argue that it never went away...) Either way, in future facing organisations who need to move fast to respond to - and anticipate - global shifts, or who are tackling the intractable problems of today and tomorrow, action learning seems to be re-emerging as a method of choice.  

It seems particularly attractive to Generation Y - those born since 1980 and the newest intake into the world of work.  What seems important to them, in their learning and development, indeed how they engage with the world, is an approach that values and respects their experiences and perspectives; acknowledges multiple realities and helps them sift through and make sense of the proliferation of data available to them and take practical actions on the problems they face.  In a sense, perhaps this is not surprising, since Revans himself developed his method at a time when big questions were being asked of the taken-for-granted paradigms - in science, philosophy, human and social sciences. 

So, some of the sessions on offer at Henley in March look at Action Learning and the development of strategy; AL and organisation development; the varieties of methods and practices emerging around the world in the name of AL; using AL to support international partnerships.  We are delighted to be welcoming delegates from around the world - Canada, Germany, Bosnia Herzegovina, Finland, United States, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland and the home countries of England, Scotland and Wales - bringing a rich variety of experience and practice to the March conference.

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19 - 20 March 2008 - Embodied Leadership + Systems Thinking Workshop
A unique workshop to connect the power of two streams of leading edge practice which are rarely brought together - Systems Thinking & Embodied Leadership. The workshop, held to great acclaim for the first time in the UK last year, is an exciting fusion between the work of two of North America's pioneering teachers on leadership - Wendy Palmer and Barry Oshry.

Download:  Embodied Leadership + Systems Thinking Workshop 1.2 Mb  

11 March 11 - Transformational Coaching Master class in Dublin by Peter Hawkins (Executive Coaching Solutions)

October 2007
17 - 18 October - CIPD Annual Coaching at Work Conference
The Coaching at Work Conference is an opportunity to reflect on how effective your coaching activities are and what new developments and initiatives you could apply to ensure that you continue to meet your organisational objectives.

In a Coaching Supervision seminar, Peter Hawkins will introduce some of the models and frameworks currently available before working through his own seven-eyed process model. During this highly practical seminar you will get the opportunity to apply the model to one of your existing clients or employees. The session will include personal reflection time and the opportunity for you to work through your experiences.

11 - 13 October - European Coaching & Mentoring Council (EMCC)

'Getting the organisation into coaching supervision' - Gil Schwenk presents at EMCC 2007 Conference.

'No man is an island' wrote John Donne and this is certainly true for work based coaching. Working within the wider, organisational perspective and context is a challenging task for any coach, where the question 'Who is my client?" holds many challenges.

Any workplace coaching has a three way contract between the coach, the client and the organisation. Even if this is not explicit, the organisation system constantly impacts and influences the coaching partnership.

Download: EMCC Conf 07 - Schwenk and Schwenk 316 Kb

July 2007
28 July - BASPR
Conference ‘Humour and Supervision’. Dr Peter Hawkins is giving the key note address on ‘Humour and Creativity in Supervision’.
For further information, please contact the conference organiser Amanda Shribman at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  

May 2007
3 May - Perfect Information Conference
Chris Smith is facilitating a highly interactive break-out session on developing leaders at this conference. He will challenge existing views and assumptions and use tools and processes to evaluate personal strengths and challenges.  

10 May - APECS Conference
Peter Hawkins will be speaking at the APECS conference on Coaching Supervision at the Henley Business School.
Download conference summary:  APECS Conference Summary 60 Kb 

15th May - Book Launch
The launch of our new book ‘Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development', written by Dr Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith and published by the Open University Press, will take place at The Royal Commonwealth Club in London at 6.30pm.

Feb 2007
3 Feb - UK Council for Psychotherapy
At their conference on supervision Peter Hawkins gave the key note address titled: ‘Supervision; the key to continuing professional development and quality practice'. He also chaired the Panel discussion.

 Dec 2006
13 Dec - Westminster and Whitehall Conference
Danny Chesterman was a guest speaker at a special one day conference on ‘Reform, Efficiency and Delivery in the UK Public Sector 2007 – 2010’ where he spoke about the importance of reforming leadership.

November 2006
2 November - European Coaching & Mentoring Council
Gil Schwenk co-presented with Eileen Arney of the CIPD a session entitled ‘A best practice survey of coaching supervision'. This paper summarised a significant research project commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and carried out by Dr Peter Hawkins and Gil Schwenk of the Bath Consultancy Group during Summer 2006.
 EMCC Conference 2006 - Schwenk 206 Kb

 EMCC Supervision Presentation 287 Kb

Sept 2006
12 Sep - CIPD Coaching Conference
Dr Peter Hawkins and Gil Schwenk presented their findings from research into coaching supervision conducted on behalf of the CIPD. These are published in a CIPD Change Agenda available from the CIPD website.