Excellence in Coaching
Please do join us for our next meeting on Tuesday 11th September when we welcome Myles Downey who will lead a fascinating and challenging evening.
Myles’s presentation will address four interrelated topics delivered in short sections punctuated by discussion:
• In much of our market coaching has lost its shine and is more and more difficult to sell: many coaches are not up to the task, there is no commonly held model, coaching is less and less about performance and more about development and buyers have commoditized and packaged coaching.
• The drive for efficiency was a significant contributor towards business growth in the 20th Century at a time when the workforce was ‘educated’ into a state of compliance. The issues and opportunities of the 21st Century require more than efficiency and a compliant workforce is not agile enough to deliver – there is a real need for effective coaching.
• The core of coaching is, in my view, an investment in the autonomy and authority of the individual. This strongly suggest that ideas of ‘construing’ and a ‘non-directive’ approach have an important role in excellence in coaching.
• Excellence transcends and includes models and dogma: ‘flow’ offers access to one’s full capability both for the coach and the player.
Myles Downey
Myles is recognised as one of the leading business performance coaches in Europe with extensive experience spanning thirty years.
He was the Founder of The School of Coaching in the U.K., established in 1996 and the first of it’s kind (he sold the school in 2009), and was also part of the team that established The Alexander Corporation in 1987, which was acknowledged by The Economist Intelligence Unit as “the leading provider of Executive Coaching in Europe” in 1993 and in 1995.
In 2015 Myles established The School of Coaching International which operates through partners in the UK, in Russia and Vietnam (Zest Leaders) Ukraine (MCU) and in sub-Saharan Africa (IDM Business School). In August 2016 Myles worked with the New Zealand Rugby Elite Coaches to develop their coaching skills and is currently working with the Coaches to the English Rugby National squad. “Enabling Genius – a mind-set for success in the 21st Century’ was published in March 2016. Myles is also the author of ‘Effective Modern Coaching’ published in November 2014 and of ‘Effective Coaching’ (in excess of 60,000 copies sold). Routledge has contracted with Myles and Cliff Kimber to write ‘Born to Flow – the next frontier of performance’. Myles is a partner to People Squared Solutions who have launched a powerful mobile learning platform/app focused on supporting large, scale transformation through leadership development. A unique, real-time coaching facility (no coach) has been developed and will be added to the platform in the near future.
As a part of the Enabling Genius Project Myles committed to re-learning how to play tennis with the intent of returning to competitive tennis in seniors tournaments.
Myles lives in London. He was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1959.
The event is being held in room MH002 in the Mary Seacole Building. A map of Campus North can be accessed
here.