Dear Colleague

Welcome to the summer edition of the Bath Consultancy Group newsletter and a particular welcome to all the new subscribers.

This has been a particularly busy quarter for BCG Ltd with a lot of new client work. Including a new European Leadership Programme for Canon Europe, work with Global marketing for Nokia, HR transformation work for a government department, executive team development and leadership work for two Strategic Health Authorities and new work on Culture for Performance with a large investment bank.

We have also been delighted to welcome two new consultants to the core team and a new Non-Executive Director.  Angela Steatham and Joanna Corr have both brought a wide range of consulting experience with them into the Core team here at Bath.  You can read about Angela in this newsletter and Joanna will be featured in the Autumn. 

Christine Lloyd has joined the board as a non-executive.  Our relationship with Christine goes back many years to the time when she was a member of the internal consulting team at Shell.  She was then Head of Leadership and Organisation Development at Worldcom where we worked with her on performance management and leadership development. Christine then became a key player as Head of HR and Development in Nokia Venturing,  and later  Director of Organisation Development and Change in Nokia  overall, where once again she became an important client.  Christine is now Executive Director of People & Organisational Development at Cancer Research, the largest charity in Europe and we are delighted that she is able to find time amidst her new large work challenges to support the development of BCG.

In this edition:

 

July Article - Culture for Performance Coaching Supervision update

Barry Oshry Workshops on Whole Systems
- Review of the workshops

The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership
- now available
Consultant Interview - Angela Steatham Every Teacher Matters

Future Publications

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July Article

Culture for Performance

Culture for Performance encompasses the various aspects of our work with organisations.  So what is it, what does it mean and how does it work?

To find out more download the full article.

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The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership - now published

The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership - by Peter Hawkins - now available from BCG
 

We were delighted to see so many of you at the successful launch of �The Wise Fool�s Guide to Leadership�.  It was a most enjoyable evening with entertaining speeches from Vic Luck (Senior Partner at IBM), Penny Egan (Director of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce) and Barry Oshry ( Author of �Leading Systems�).

Since then the book has been promoted to its membership by the Institute of Management Consultancy, Association of Management Education and Development and Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations.  We are receiving a lot of favourable responses, including delightful Emails and suggested stories for the next edition. 

To quote just one Email:

            �To our surprise, we are both finding ourselves greatly enjoying your book and pinching it from one another to read another story!�

As a special offer any reader who wants to purchase 5 or more copies to use in their organisation or as part of a training programme can do so for the reduced price of �6 plus postage and packing.  Send an Email to [email protected].

Professor Mike Pedler - Co-author of the best selling books �The Learning Company� and �The Manager�s Guide to Self-Development" writes in the preface of the book:

� I commend this book of Nasrudin stories to you; it is in fact an entirely commendable book � wiser even than The Hitch Hiker�s Guide to the Galaxy, far, far funnier than In Search of Excellence, so much thinner than The Harvard Business Review Encyclopaedia of Corporate Strategy and, astoundingly, cheaper than Catch 22!�

If you would like a signed edition please order via the Nasrudin web site.

 

 

Future Publications

Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants

Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith have now signed a contract with the Open University Press for a book entitled �Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants�. The book will be written by September 2005 and published in April 2006.

 

News about New Courses

Certificate Programme in Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants

Coaching in the UK and Europe is coming of age! Over the past couple of years all coaching professional bodies (EMCC, ICF, AC, BPS �SGCP, APECS) have published statements regarding coaching supervision. However, until recently, there has been very little supervision training that specifically focuses on coaching.

Bath Consultancy Group's Coaching Supervision training builds on a solid foundation of the Hawkins and Shohet�s supervision model that has been the core of counsellor and psychotherapist supervision for over fifteen years. The Coaching Supervision training builds on this with other models that are more specific to the coaching. It�s an excellent course that is significantly progressing the provision of coaching supervision in the UK.

Gil Schwenk Chair, EMMC Standards Committee

Sheldon Maguire, who completed the course in March 2005 wrote - "I think this programme would be valuable for any professional coach interested in their learning and supervision."

 

Future Courses

Foundation - 9th - 11th November 2005, London

Advanced - 10th - 12th May 2006, Bath

 

>>Download current brochure

>>Book a place

 If you would prefer a hardcopy of the brochure please Email us with your postal details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barry Oshry Workshops on Whole Systems

The Organisation Workshop 12 - 13th May
Merging Cultures Workshop 19 - 20th May

We held two very successful workshops in May with Barry Oshry, a leading innovator in whole system change, and author of; "Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life"  and "Leading Systems: Lessons from the Power Lab".

We are planning to have Barry  leading further workshops with us in the UK.  Please Email for further details - Email

Some comments from the workshop participants:

 

Helen Daniels - Chris Ball Associates
"I have found the effects of the workshop to be very profound. I struggled for a couple of days and experienced some difficult and quite negative feelings, but gradually worked my way through them and have come to a state of calm reflection where I can really begin to digest what happened on the course. So thanks to everyone, especially Barry and Karen. "


Colette Gannon - Sandler Consulting
"
Great workshop, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much."

Noel Nanton - Think-as-if.co.uk
"Just a send a huge thanks to you and your colleagues for such a well co-ordinated and inspiring event.

Attending last Friday (Merging Cultures Certification) was really the 'icing on the cake' for me. I feel that I got one of the missing pieces of the jigsaw for where I'm trying to establish my philosophy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and change management. "

Carol Pickering - Carol Pickering Associates
"I was on a high for days after this workshop! It was great and I'm looking forward to hearing how people have applied the ideas. I loved the combination of stimulating ideas and the immediacy of learning about them through the activities. There is so much we can apply."

Sarah Willis - Training for Life
"Thank you for all your efforts re organising my place on the course - I had a great experience and I'm still processing the learning.

I will feedback how I'm planning to implement the learning within the charity in the near future."

 

 

 

 

An Interview with Angela Steatham

What made you want to join BCG?

After 6 years as an Independent Consultant, I realised that I wanted to work more closely with fellow OD professionals. Having worked alongside some BCG Associates and having received a great deal of my professional development from BCG also, I value immensely their approach to working with clients.

I like the integrity of how BCG works with its clients, its innovation and the fact that all interventions are clearly linked to strategic business goals.

In addition, I realised that I have ignored many potential pieces of work because I did not have the capacity or breadth of approach to deliver what was needed � BCG provides both of these and lots more besides!

>> Read More ......

 

Every Teacher Matters

Peter Hawkins and Danny Chesterman are currently writing a research report commissioned by Teacher Support Network, entitled �Every Teacher Matters�.  This report is providing a new framework, methods and best practice for developing continual personal development for teachers from being  student teacher right up until being a �third age educator�.  The research has involved, interviews, questionnaires and workshops with people from every aspect of the sector from schools, education authorities, DfES, Professional Agencies and suppliers of teacher development.

If you would like a copy of the report , when it is published, send an Email  to Dorothy Struthers,  the new Head of Research and Product Development at Teacher Support Network.

 

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