GCN: Transactional Analysis (TA) in Coaching/Mentoring

27 April 2010 18:00 for 18:30 start
Gloucestershire Branch

Subject area:  Learning and development
Venue: Maxima Forum, Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2JA
Speaker(s):

John Ashford

Based on a commercial career in marketing, to board level, John became convinced that leadership development was essential to the growth of both commercial and not for profit organisations. Following a productive time with The Leadership Trust as Course Director, he set up his own business in 2005 as a coach/mentor and facilitator.

John has recently been accredited as a Master Practitioner of Coaching /Mentoring on the back of his long experience using TA amongst a wide variety of other ‘tools’. He is also an active member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) helping to write their recently published professional standards and is an assessor for coaching/mentoring quality awards. And he is an assessor for the Business Excellence Model!

Event details:

TA provides an invaluable tool for ‘labelling’ human behaviour -
why we do what we do, where our behaviour originates from and how we can choose different patterns and responses to people and events to achieve different outcomes.

The originator was Eric Berne who has written a number of well known books including ‘The Games People Play’ and ‘What do you say after you say hello’. It was originally developed to help psychologists use a simplified language that their patients could understand. More recently TA has been recognised for its value to coach/mentors.

John Ashford will present the basic principles of TA including ego state preferences (Parent: Adult: Child), Transactions, Driver Behaviour, Stokes and Games.

Applied to coaching/mentoring these can help us as coaches to:

• enhance rapport
• manage our own state
• enable our clients to maintain resourceful states and recognise behavioural patterns
and
• increase both our own and our client’s overall self-awareness.

The evening will involve simple questionnaires to help identify our own ego state preferences and drivers, combined with interactive work to practise with the concepts and recognise the impact of the different elements on people’s actions, thoughts and emotions.

An evening full of value to coaches whatever their expertise and experience (except possibly TA experts –but do come and add your expertise!).  This Gloucestershire Coaching Network event is open to CIPD members and non-members.

For directions to the venue, please see Maxima Forum's website: www.maxima-forum.co.uk/HowtoFindUs.html.

Teas and coffees will be served before the event at 6.00pm. The event will start at 6.30pm and finish at 8.30pm.

Fee: £10.00 inc. VAT for CIPD members and non-members, payable on the door – please book your place via the website in advance.

For more information:
  • Contact phone number 01242 671054