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Keynotes of the European Coaching Conference
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Robert Quinn
Author of “Building The Bridge As You Walk On It”, “Change The World: How Ordinary People Can Accomplish Extraordinary Results”
and “Deep Change”.
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| Robert Quinn has a real gift for inspiring courage, creativity and a strong sense of purpose for action. Instead of just talking about change, he actually helps people change. He has developed a leading change management tool, the Completing Values Framework, identified as one of the fifty most important models in the history of business. Robert is also co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) at the University of Michigan. |
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Françoise Kourilsky
Françoise is a graduate of the French University of Sciences Politiques, her PhD in psychology (1996) focused on change management. She is the author of the award-winning and best-selling book 'Du désir au plaisir de changer' by Dunod presse, featuring a preface by Paul Watzlawick.
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Françoise coaches executives, leaders and management teams and conducts regular supervision of executive coaches in training. The regular training courses she runs on perfecting management skills and competencies address the need for innovating communication and management styles. Francoise’s regular training workshops for coaches’ training and supervision deal with:
• Bringing about change and resolving problems through a systemic approach
• New negotiation techniques, drawing on both elegance and high performance
• Honing one’s time and self-management skills
• Strategic interview techniques and related evaluation tools
• Project management and goal setting
• Team facilitation and team coaching skills
Françoise is very active on the French and coaching-specific conference circuit, some of the lectures and papers she regularly presents include:
• Innovation and ethics in communications management
• Using resistance as catalysts for change
• A systemic and constructivist approach to management. |
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Marshall Rosenberg
The father of “Non-Violent Communication”.
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| Nonviolent Communication coaching is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to choose well, even under trying conditions. The NVC coach accompanies the coachee in reframing how they express themselves and how they listen to themselves. Instead of being habitual, automatic reactions, their words become conscious responses based firmly on an awareness of what they are perceiving, feeling and wanting. Marshall Rosenberg is a speaker who easily involves his audience in the process of NVC. He is direct and clear in his responses and he is very profound in his explanations of the process. |
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Daniel Ofman
Author of “Core Qualities, Gateway to Human Resources”.
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| Each person, coach or client is 'coloured' by his or her core qualities. It is their strong point, the characteristic that immediately comes to mind when we think of this person. Core qualities are expressions of the Self that generate inspiration. Daniel Ofman, founder of Core Quality Consulting will present a simple but powerful way to discover your core qualities. His method is widely used in The Netherlands both in the business world as well as in educational institutions. The University of Utrecht uses his internet application with their students. After his presentation participants will be able to apply his Core Quadrant® Methodology immediately. |
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Paul Z. Jackson
Co-author (with Mark McKergow) of “The Solution Focus - The Simple Way To Positive Change”.
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| To benefit fully from the interactive nature of coaching, it is vital to develop your skills as an improviser. In his keynote session, Paul Z Jackson will share the techniques of improvisation for coaches. This means you will learn how to respond in the moment as the coaching conversation develops, to be fluent in tactics so as to implement your strategy. As you develop your Improvisation skills, you get better at making more appropriate responses. Interactions are at the heart of coaching. In Solutions Focus there is a saying: “The action is in the interaction”. And because each interaction is different, it has to have an element of spontaneity to give it value. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 April 2006 )
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