Ethics, Ethical Choices and Shades of Grey Roger Steare, in his book "Ethicability", distinguishes between Principled Conscience (using such principles as fairness, courage and kindness to help us decide what is right); Social Conscience (considering the possible positive and negative consequences of our actions on others in order to decide what's right); and Rule Compliance (in which the rules tell us what is right).

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By Belinda Davies Return on InvestmentReturn on investment and the measurement thereof is a timeless challenge to everyone in the business of devel...

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By Belinda Davies Return on Investment Return on investment and the measurement thereof is a timeless cha...

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By Emma Tyrrell and Nick Wilkins GCC Rainbow Convention 2011 Update on the Pods Practitioner Research Process The "Rainbow Convention" of the Global C...

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Cracking the Code - MCSC for Members - Part 3

I was in a conversation earlier this month with a member about the MCSC framework, and - from comments that were made - it became clear to me that this member was not familiar with the contents of the framework, or where to start. Well, if you're reading this article, good for you because you're on the right track and we're eating this elephant one bite at a time. What I'd also like to suggest that you start doing is one, some or all of the following:

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By Nick Wilkins and Dr Sunny Rostron ROI Warning - Your mileage may vary! Naturally business coaches want to market their services. And what more tempting way to sell business coaching than to quote nice big numbers about the return on investment (ROI) the client firm can reap?

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 Protecting your well earned retirement

Baby boomers, born in the 1950's, are approaching what was once considered the age for retirement. With the recent economic downturn many of these people are deciding that retirement is not an attractive option at this stage.

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Making your marriage a lifelong love affair ...
the power of knowing yourself in a marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.

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Return on Investment or Value on Investment - which one will Suffice?

While many South African organisations have enthusiastically embraced coaching, the challenge and conversations around exact measurement of the impact of these coaching interventions remains an ongoing debate. Even literature on the matter seems unable to provide us with a clear cut answer as to HOW to go about "measuring" the impact or effectiveness of coaching interventions on business performance.

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The Holy Grail of coaching ROI

For coaches to be seen as adding value in the business world there is a requirement for us to be able to prove that value. This need has resulted in consistent calls for us as a profession to be able to prove Return on Investment.

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Return on ... Leadership Verses in Ecclesiastes (chapter 10; verses 16 and 17) state "Woe to thee O Land, when thy king is low-minded and when the princes eat in the morning! Happy art thou O Land when thy king is noble-spirited and thy princes eat in the proper time, for strengthening and not for gluttony." Nothing new! Written by King Solomon. Appropriate words! Those in positions of leadership, endowed with power, truly have a tremendous impact and effect on everyone at every level in every situation in society.

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GCC Rainbow Convention 2011
Update on the Pods Practitioner Research Process

The "Rainbow Convention" of the Global Coaching Community (GCC) will be held in Cape Town on 11-14 May 2011. The GCC is an international dialogue on the professional development of coaching, and the Rainbow Convention will be the third international event in the dialogue, following a convention in Dublin (July 2008) and a symposium in London (July 2009). This will be an exciting opportunity for South African coaches and other stakeholders to have a say in the future of coaching.

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Michelle's monthly tip for making the MOST of your COMENSA membership
This month: Serve, earn, succeed

"The work that coaches are doing is excellent: ethical, appropriate and helpful", quotes Dr Fillery-Travis, participant in the GCC Working Group on Research. If we recognise this about our work, why then do many of us short-change ourselves by offering hours and hours of coaching for little or no financial reward?

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  By Marti Janse van Rensburg Skewed perspectives and laziness "The fact that we live at t...

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The sword of Damocles
I've managed to dodge that bullet often. Wearing a tie. Very constricting. 35 deg C outside and very humid. Is that how I measure my successes, or is that just a by-product of the enjoyment of working in a small business or working for myself? If I see someone in a tie, are they coming for a job interview or trying to sell me something?

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Return on Investment

For me the first thing to identify when I look at my return on investment is whether I was expecting a monetary return or an emotional return.
I'm sure everyone is familiar with the age-old joke about the accountant, when asked; "What is seven minus five?" and he responded with: "What do you need it to be?" What is the basis for his response?

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Return on Investment

Return on investment and the measurement thereof is a timeless challenge to everyone in the business of developing people, not least coaches and mentors. Even more challenging, in my opinion, is that we often fail to consider or calculate the return we get when we invest in ourselves.

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Skewed perspectives and laziness "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously an indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." Douglas Adams in the Salmon of Doubt. Many, many moons ago, I studied chemical engineering with a bursary from the CSIR. By the time I had completed my degree - sort of - I went to work for them.

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Unconditional investment
There are a number of ways in which the notion of investment plays itself out for me.
In 2009, during my PCC year at the Centre for Coaching, my coaching question was how do I invest in myself by taking a year's sabbatical? Doing so enabled me to invest in my renewal, reframe how I viewed income as a source of self-worth and invest in a learning programme which I believed to be one of the best in the country.

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Is your ROL negatively impacting your ROI?
A problem that is often encountered with clients is that they have allowed ROL (Routine of Life) to take over and they have lost sight of the (ROI) Return on Investment that they could be achieving in their life.People become so absorbed in all the ?should dos? and ?have tos? that they end up chasing their tails and find that life is passing them by: They have been to school, studied further, got married and had children and the Routine has set in.

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