Monica Redden Consultancy is the sole Australian partner in CoachingOurselves - an internationally respected development program for managers, which gives Australians easy access to some of the world's best minds in management practice.
The concept was developed in 2007 by a group of colleagues from Canada, England, France, India and Japan who have been collaborating for the past decade to develop new approaches to management education and development.
The group is led by Phil LeNir and highly respected author and academic Professor Henry Mintzberg who is currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal.
Video: Introduction to CoachingOurselves by Henry Mintzberg
CoachingOurselves was developed on the principle of self-directed learning. Created to suit the practical realities of working life for time-poor managers, it involves focused sessions held in the workplace which do not require any prior reading or preparation.
Typically, small groups of up to eight managers meet every week or fortnight for up to 90 minutes to focus discussion on management and leadership topics. CoachingOurselves has designed a start-up and support system that makes it relatively hassle-free to get started and keep going! Usually, a group of participants start by exploring ten separate topics, focussing on a different topic at each session.
Topics within the CoachingOurselves program do not prescribe “ways of managing”. Participants stay in the workplace and work together to understand the concepts described in each topic, making sense of the concept within their environment by sharing their own experiences and developing realistic actions. This is an economical way to ensure management development is vibrant, responsive and highly relevant.
Topics cover a broad range of management subjects including Decision Making, High Performance Teams, Leadership, Finance and Accounting, Strategic Thinking, Management Styles and Organizational Politics. The topics have been developed by leading thinkers, academics and practitioners in management from around the world including:
Professor Jonathan Gosling, Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter in England. Jonathan founded the UK's first community mediation service, has worked in management education with major companies such as British Airways, and serves on several including the Defence Academy and the European Leadership Centre.
David Ulrich, a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in the United States, and co-founder of The RBL Group. The author of 15 books on HR and leadership, David has been ranked the #1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, and named the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine for three years.
Brenda Zimmerman, is a professor of Strategic Management at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the founder and Director of the Health Industry Management Program. Her primary research applies complexity science to management and leadership issues in organizations.
Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and chairman and co-founder of TruePoint, a research based consultancy for senior executives. The award-winning author led development of the first required course in human resource management taught at a business school and has consulted to leading corporations such as Merck, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Ernst and Young.
Dr Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders become even better by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior. The internationally best-selling author made the Forbes list of the five most respected executive coaches, and The Times (London), ranked him in the 50 greatest living business thinkers.
CoachingOurselves is being integrated into a variety of businesses and organizations including Cathay Pacific Airways, ING Insurance, Oracle and Syngenta AG. Cathay Pacific Airways has recently implemented the program across the international organisation and recently commented:
"Our core organizational learning issue has always been how to make it 'real' and relevant to the specific individuals and specific organizational context of the participants. There's no shortage of approaches that 'do development to people'; we were looking for an approach to enable individuals to make their own development meaningful to them and benefit the organization. In CoachingOurselves we found it." Cathay Pacific Airways.
MRC will work with you to scope your needs and introduce the CoachingOurselves program within your workplace. It's a great way to build a community of learners and encourage them to access the best thinking in the world on how to manage in complex times.
