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The use of AI tools in academic research is a very hot topic at the moment and the sector is debating and acting swiftly to address and set standards for researching with AI tools. Undertaking research into coaching mentoring and supervision, we too need to be aware of the benefits and challenges of using AI as a tool in research. There is no simple answer and we should have an open debate about the benefits and dangers of using AI tools in our research. What are your views and experiences? What are your personal guidelines and ethical considerations? Share your thoughts here!

Nominations are open for the EMCC Global Awards 2024: Celebrating Excellence and Positive Impact 🌟Coaching, 🌟Coaching, 🌟Mentoring, 🌟Supervision. More>> https://vist.ly/3mxitci

EMCC Global is excited to establish a Regulation Centre for Excellence (CfE), under the leadership of Alberto Javier Arroyo. This initiative underscores our commitment to advancing the coaching, mentoring, and supervision professions through rigorous standards and ethical practices. 🌞About the Regulation Centre for Excellence The Regulation CfE was established to enhance the professionalisation of coaching and mentoring by promoting self-regulation and integrating seamlessly with other EMCC initiatives. Our aim is to create a cohesive framework that aligns with EMCC Global's accreditation processes and ethical guidelines, contributing to the overall mosaic of the EMCC mission. 🌞Key objectives 👉Review and promote The Professional Charter for Coaching and Mentoring: Initiate a thorough review of the Charter, advocating for its widespread adoption across various countries. 👉Establish best practices framework: Create a robust framework of best practices for internal regulation, facilitating adoption by different EMCC countries and regions to maintain consistency and high standards. 👉Redefine the complaints procedure: Develop a comprehensive second version of the Complaints Procedure to ensure clarity and fairness in addressing ethical concerns. 🌞Our team Alberto is supported by a dedicated and experienced team. That team contributed to the definition of the current version of The Professional Charter for Coaching and Mentoring in 2022. 👉Michel Moral, MSc, PhD 👉Toni Smerdon Together, we aim to develop frameworks for both self-regulation and formal regulation in coaching, mentoring, and supervision practices, encompassing emerging fields such as team and group coaching. 🌞Regulation and self-regulation are vital for: 👉Client protection: Safeguarding clients from unethical or ineffective practices. 👉Credibility enhancement: Boosting the credibility of professionals within the industry. 👉Professional development: Encouraging continuous learning and adherence to high standards. The Professional Charter for Coaching and Mentoring, co-signed by EMCC Global and other leading organisations, serves as a benchmark for ethics and good practice, forming the basis for self-regulation in our profession. https://vist.ly/3mxa9cx 🌞To meet the team or get involved, email Alberto at alberto.arroyo@emccglobal.org #EMCCGlobal #EMCCTeamCoaching #EMCCTeamCoach #TeamCoach #CoachingCompetencies #Coaching #ProfessionalDevelopment #ThoughtLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #Teamwork #CoachingExcellence #EMCC #Coach #Team

**application deadline extended to 26 March** 👉Could you, a colleague or a member of your network be our next EMCC Global Vice President of Accreditation? Reporting to the EMCC Global President and a member of the EMCC Global Executive Board, this is a home-based voluntary position of two days a week, supported by a service fee of EUR 1,000 per month. The EMCC Global VP Accreditation is an important member of the team & is a pivotal role in driving standards for accredited practitioners, programmes & organisations. Details: https://vist.ly/3mx7dkk Apply here: https://vist.ly/3mx7dkp 🌞Role purpose 🔵To provide strategic direction & leadership with the EMCC Global Accreditation community to celebrate & regulate professional practice 🔵To ensure regulatory standards & professionalisation for EMCC Global Accreditation are in line with Strategic Priorities & budget projections 🔵To build & maintain a working relation with key stakeholders, including Affiliates, Providers, Country board members for Quality & Ethics & Assessors 🔵To drive the professionalisation of this area to enhance processes, automation & communication; streamline & improve accreditation processes to impact response times, efficiency & client service 🌞Essential Knowledge, Skills, Characteristics & Behaviours 🔵Understanding of EMCC Global vision, purpose & strategy 🔵Leadership at board level, in higher education, business & voluntary sector, including multi-national regulatory contexts 🔵Knowledge & understanding of teaching, learning, & assessment ‘for’ & ‘in’ learning, including validation of work-based experience & prior learning 🔵Ability to oversee, implement & innovate accreditation processes in collaboration with stakeholders. 🔵Team player, able to motivate & recruit staff, & work on their own to deliver results in line with professional standards of accreditation 🔵Very good spoken & written English (our working language) 🔵EMCC Global Individual Accreditation at (preferably) Master Practitioner level, or equivalent 🌞Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Characteristics & Behaviours 🔵Active fully trained EMCC Global Assessor or equivalent background 🔵Designer and evaluator of online education and training 🔵Experience in the use and application of benchmarking audit processes with or in multi-national organisations 🔵Knowledge and understanding of Customer Relationship Management systems and data analytics to ensure the effective production of management reports 🔵First-hand experience of the ‘Skills Agenda’ in contributing to EMCC Global Strategic priorities, alongside EU and UNESCO Policy Development across countries and members states worldwide 🌞Timetable 🔵Closing Date for Applications: 26 March 🔵Nominations Committee Shortlist: 8 April 🔵Interview completed by: 22 April 🔵Recommendation to Council: 3 May 🔵Council Voting completed: 19 May 🔵Appointment: 1 June Queries: GEBsecretariat@emccglobal.org

Join us for our next GPS Dialogue with former professional footballer now motivational performance coach Andy Ramage on the topic of Positive Psychology. It will be held on 19 March 2025 from 10am-12pm GMT. Register here: https://vist.ly/3mx4fzi

A psychologist with nearly 30 years’ experience has been recognised with an EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) at Master Practitioner level. Gerard Dekkers is the founder of the Netherlands-based MentesMe - a provider of customised mentoring within organisations - his curiosity about human development saw him specialise in methodologies such as EMDR, EFT, Heart Coherence, and Internal Family Systems. He created his own cognitive activation method, the MentesMe iGrow method, which forms the basis of his EMCC Global Quality Award (EQA) accredited Foundation and Practitioner training programmes. Altogether, his work has significantly contributed to the profession – a key requirement for Master Practitioner level. Gerard writes: “As I refined and expanded my methodologies, I wanted to benchmark them against the highest global standards. EMCC Global was the only organisation that truly aligned with my vision and commitment to excellence. “The journey toward Master Practitioner accreditation and our EQA accreditation has been a profoundly enriching experience, and I look forward to actively contributing to the EMCC Global community." Read more

Let’s all be Pracademics Being an evidence-based practitioner in an evidence-based profession is about how we grow in capability and in the value we add. Sharing your research is integral to being a pracademic – the topic of today’s Research Monday post. Since I introduced the term pracademic a decade ago, it has become an accepted part of the research vocabulary in coaching and mentoring. It captures two complementary concepts: 🍎 The academic, who engages in coaching practice with their own clients. 🍎 The coaching practitioner, who enriches their practice by carrying out or participating in relevant research. Implicit for both is that they share their learning through publications, conference papers or other media. A major benefit for the academics is being able to ground their research and the conclusions they extract from it in their own experience. As a result, the work of these pracademics usually passes the “So what?” test. It has immediate relevance to the work of coaches and mentors generally — and this gives them credibility when engaging with coaching audiences. Among benefits for coaches are that they can constantly test assumptions about the efficacy of what they do. At one level, they can gather data from their own practice, compare this with the available literature and experiment with alternate approaches. For example, attempting to limit the number of questions they ask in a coaching session. At another level, they can use their clients to conduct surveys that investigate a topic that attracts their interest. For example, how clients experience imposter syndrome. Both pracademic groups can also work together in multiple ways. For example, coaches and mentors (and of course supervisors) can suggest themes that academics can design research around. They can also participate in studies led by academics. The expectation that EMCC members will be pracademics increases at each level from Practitioner, through Senior Practitioner to Master Practitioner. All my Senior Practitioner courses require participants to initiate a research project, for example. What has your research told you recently? What are your research ideas? Post them below 👇👇👇 Prof. David Clutterbuck and Dr Lise Lewis are our special advisers in research and members of EMCC Global’s Research Committee. Also tagging Alison Mitchell our Head of EMCC Global Research Centre for Excellence

At the Continuous Personal and Professional Development (CPPD) Centre for Excellence, our mission is to anticipate, challenge, and uphold best practices in the ongoing development of coaches, mentors, and supervisors. Building on the foundational work led by Marialexia Margariti, former Vice President of Quality, we have defined the EMCC Global philosophy and principles for CPD, resulting in the 2017 e-book guide (download here: EMCC Global CPD Guide) https://vist.ly/3mwpa5f CPD encompasses activities that maintain, develop, or increase knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes. It goes beyond knowledge acquisition to include the relational and personal dimensions of practitioners alongside their professional expertise. To reflect this, we have added the essential "Personal," transforming CPD into CPPD and bringing the holistic perspective of body, heart, mind and spirit. As the world evolves, so must our learning practices, addressing the "Anyone, Anywhere, Anyhow, Anytime" aspects. These 4 As are detailed in our roadmap (download here: EMCC Global CPD Roadmap). Our international team, led by Nadine Hemmer, is focusing on three priorities: 1️⃣ Rethinking the EMCC Global Vision for the Ongoing Development of Practitioners to be: 🍎 Evidence-based 🍎 Adaptive to our evolving world (AI, learning technologies, culture) and the different career stages of practitioners 🍎 Inclusive, reflecting EMCC Global values and exploring beyond the Western perspective of on-going learning This vision will be summarised in a white paper and communicated as a short statement. 2️⃣ Supporting Our Members to Enhance the Quality and the depth of their Learning. Reflective practice is at the heart of our learning journey. The ability to elaborate and relate in complex and nuanced ways, navigate the unknown with wisdom, and continuously reflect on experiences ensures growth in both skills and personal development. We are creating spaces for reflection and reflexivity and enhancing learning in EMCC events and conferences. With expert support from David Drake, we are drafting a process/document based on his five maturities model to support our members. This will also ensure that we evolve in our profession and as an organisation. 3️⃣ Streamlining Learning Processes and Communication We are working with affiliated countries and other parts of EMCC Global to align our processes, ideas, and actions, making the best use of the energy EMCC volunteers bring to development activities. 🌍 We are a diverse international team aspiring to explore beyond what we know. If you would like to contribute your voice, please contact us at CPPD@emccglobal.org. The team: Ana Oliveira Pinto Britt Turnbull Niharika Soni Harry Minas (Charilos Minas) Anjani Gandhi Michaella Benvenisti Adrijana Milosavljevic ICF PCC, ACTC, EMCC SP, ESIA Maiten Panella Victoria Liu Master Executive Coach Andrew Leahy Nadine Hemmer

Our EMCC Global Five Day Challengers are currently four days into their sprint towards accreditation. Join us in wishing them well on their journey. The Five Day Challenge (5DC) is a Get It Done week, where our volunteer facilitators lead small groups of coaches and mentors who need some help in completing their application for EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) at Foundation, Practitioner and Senior Practitioner level. Discussions so far have included looking at personal statements, the types of clients serviced by the coaches and mentors, a look into CPPD, ethics and supervision. We have four different language groups this time - English, French, Greek and Polish - and it has been lovely to hear the different languages and perspectives as we come together as an international family. Our next EMCC Global 5DC runs in June 2025, and we also have one in September 2025. For details see www.emccglobal.org/5dc The 5DC is not a training course, or an information session – this is for coaches and mentors who have the education and experience needed for accreditation and just need some help applying. We remain thankful for our volunteer facilitators who are happy to help you in the process. On behalf of our March 2025 participants. let's hear it for our facilitators: 👏 Helen Geoghegan 👏 Anna Fotini Paschidou 👏 Mariniki Santorinaiou 👏 Elena Michael 👏 VASO PANAYI 🧩🧠 👏 Isabelle Ferlin 👏 Nathalie MONCLA 👏 Jo Cleary 👏 Anna Inama, MSc, ICF MCC 👏 Victoria Orr 👏 Jo Searle 👏 Kasia Syrówka 👏 Nana Sigouna, MSc, EMCC SP 👏 Päivi Äijälä 👏 Liliana Urziceanu 👏 Sarah-Jane H. 👏 Sandra Goddard BPS Chartered Coaching Psychologist AFBPsS 👏 Vlad Dutescu 👏 Diana Stanese And our 5DC team: 👏 Charlotte Smith BA Assoc CIPD 👏 Dr Chandana Sanyal 👏 Nicola Brown Chart.PR MCIPR 👏 Wendy F.

Are you looking to strengthen your research methodology skills and learn how to design and execute a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) in coaching and/or mentoring research? Come along to this webinar - The Science of Coaching: Lessons from a Randomised Control Trial with 202 Participants - which offers a deeper look into the methodology behind a large-scale RCT study investigating how coaching, goal orientation, and goal framing impact performance. Presented by Dr Andreea Nicolau this will be held on 12 March 2025 from 1pm - 2.30pm GMT. What you will learn 🗝️ What makes RCTs the gold standard for establishing causality in research? 🗝️ Designing an effective RCT: Key components and considerations 🗝️ Managing participant randomisation and control groups in applied research You will also hear about a case study finding out how it was designed and implemented a multi-organisation RCT with 202 coaching clients from 13 organisations and 43 professional coaches, Register here: https://vist.ly/3mwhzfb