Visiting EMCC Italy Conference
Article written by Andreea Gheorghiță
Hey, my name is Andreea, a leadership coach and mentor always on the lookout for ways to level up my practice and I am really happy to share on our local blog my experience visiting the EMCC
Italy conference with the intention to better connect with the local community here and to better understand what brings them together 🙂. Since I relocated for a 2-year period to Bologna, Italy, it was a great opportunity to connect with the local EMCC community and to enrich my perspective on what EMCC has to offer not just globally or in Romania, but right here in Italy.
Unfortunately the tickets for the face to face event were sold out when I decided to book my ticket, so I have decided to at least join some parts of it online.
So my takeaways are influenced by my online experience…and how I have seen it from my home office.
I could see on one screen the actual event happening and the people really connecting and I miss that 🙂 What I noticed was the big number of people coming from the business environment and not only professionals from the coaching industry which gave an even more business oriented approach to this conference.
My takeaways from some of the key speakers:
Peter Hawkins - Systemic Team Coaching
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A bit of context about Peter Hawkins - he is a professor of Leadership at Henley Business School University of Reading UK and Emeritus Chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, where for the last 25 years he has been helping organizations in many parts of the world connect their strategic change, their organizational culture and their leadership development. He has written extensively about leadership, leadership teams, coaching and supervision. Currently his major concern is the growing gap between the increasing and changing challenges for individual and collective leadership and how leadership development is failing to evolve at the same speed.
What got us here (from the last 40 years of coaching development) won’t get us in the next 40 years - How can we learn faster to play tomorrow’s game instead of getting better at playing yesterday’s game?
Organizational learning must be equal or be greater than the speed of environmental change
Coaching value beyond the individual
5 keys for organizational transformation in the mid 21st century: Purpose led, stakeholder-centric, partnering, teaming and learning.
“A high value creating team is one that co-creates great beneficial value with and for all its stakeholders”
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Lise Lewis followed Peter and she talked about the Future Trends in Supervision
Lise has a career in human resources and she was inspired to become an executive coach. Now she is working primarily in leadership development and has an international practice that brings a wealth of cultural learning and diversity of working practices. She is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, a past Global President of EMCC (2011 - 2017) and now is an EMCC Global Special Ambassador being invaluable for cross-cultural working.
Here are a few ideas as a take-away after I heard Lise:
Benefits of Supervision - developmental, qualitative and resourcing
She talked about the future of supervision for coaches and mentors, but also about the increasing need to provide supervision to leaders in organizations, managers as coaches, and leaders of a team of teams.
If supervision could be seen more like a reflective space and not like having someone supervise and control your performance, it could have a more impactful role even for leaders in organizations with benefits like enabling, inspiring, anti-fragility, well-being and working with imposter syndrome.
The support that supervision offers to the coach practitioners is in the: facilitating clarity, reflective space, enabling development, maintaining professional practice, role modeling well-being
The formula of relational leadership = EQ+IQ
There were also 2 other speakers - Shivangi Walke and Silvia Tassarotti (the co-founder of PWN Roma) who were both talking about mentoring programmes for women. From my perspective there is still a lot of space for beautiful initiatives like the ones run by PWN, where women that want to grow professionally or build their own businesses have the opportunity to connect with a global professional network and ask more confidently for learning support from other experienced women in a gender balanced programme.
Andreea Gheorghiță is a Leadership Coach & Mentor for individuals and teams, Senior Practitioner and on the path to get the ESIA (Supervision Individual Accreditation from EMCC), with more than 14 years of leading sales and commercial processes in the hospitality industry and as an entrepreneur, currently working globally with key talents, new or young leaders across a wide range of sectors, including software & IT industry, BPO, telecom, financial services, automotive and production, pharma and healthcare.
