Meyler Campbell Digest: January 2020


The monthly Meyler Campbell Digest will keep you up to date on all things Meyler Campbell and will provide you with a range of some of the best content we have found in the past month.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

COACHING FISHBOWL: COACHING FOR THE ‘G’ with Anne Scoular

DATE:  Thursday 4th February 2021 | TIME:  3:30pm – 5:00pm (UK Time)

Join Meyler Campbell Founder Anne Scoular in this Coaching Fishbowl, focusing on Coaching for the ‘G’, or Goal. This is the foundation of one of the core tools in coaching, the ‘G’ of the GROW Model; it does the heavy lifting of an entire coaching session. Anne will be demonstrating ‘getting the Goal’ with a number of volunteers, showing, she trusts, that sometimes it is quick and easy to get a good “G” – and sometimes it isn’t! Register here

BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS: FINANCE with Guy Ashton & Tom Gosling

DATE:  Tuesday 9th February 2021 | TIME:  2:00pm – 3:00pm (UK Time)

This three-part webinar series sets out to explore what you need to consider to be effective at marketing your business; ensuring you are legally compliant and robust, as well as being financially sound. In the final instalment of the Building Your Business Series focusing on Finance, Meyler Campbell Faculty Member Guy Ashton will be joined by Meyler Campbell coach in training and former Partner at PwC, Tom Gosling.  Register here *This event is for Meyler Campbell Connected members only

PSYCHOLOGY DISTILLED: PERSONALITY with Eyal Pavell

DATE:  Thursday 25th February 2021 | TIME:  3:00pm – 4:30pm (UK Time)

What is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ personality? What are the key traits that account for individual differences? What are the implications for leadership and for coaching? Join Meyler Campbell Faculty Member Eyal Pavell for an instalment in the highly successful Psychology Distilled series, Personality. This webinar will be a guided tour of the varied terrain of personality and personality disorders, signposts of leadership derailment, and a primer on Psychometrics measures of personality in the workplace. Register here *This event is for Meyler Campbell Connected members only

CHANGING GEAR with Jan Hall, Jon Stokes & Ian Florance

DATE: Tuesday 2nd March 2021 | TIME: 4:00pm – 5:30pm (UK Time)

Coping with transition can be hard at every stage of life, but it presents unique challenges as we come to the time of our lives when we are facing the end of full-on, full-time work. In this Meyler Campbell webinar, Ian Florance will interview Jan Hall & Jon Stokes about their new book – Changing Gear – which offers insight, advice, and practical exercises to help the reader make the right decisions and develop the skills needed to cope with change. Register here

Sign up to Group Supervision in 2021
Meyler Campbell Connected members can sign up to join Group Supervision sessions with Bill Crtichley. Click below to find out why might a coach want a supervisor, how supervision can help and the upcoming dates.  Find out more

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PUBLICATIONS & PODCASTS FROM THE COMMUNITY

Published in the American Lawyer, an article co-written by Meyler Campbell Faculty Member Sarah Martin with Ali Levin. The article highlights the important role of business development in the path to leadership for women in the law.

Leadership 4.0: The nature of challenge
Talk to leaders today and they will tell you their role is constrained and undermined as never before. Meyler Campbell Faculty Member Jon Stokes’ research focuses on leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read more

Leading Professional People
Meyler Campbell Alumnus David Morley (former Senior Partner of Allen & Overy) has launched a new podcast series with Professor Laura Empson of Cass Business School at the University of London.  You can access the series here or directly on Apple Podcasts & Spotify

Organisational Change
Meyler Campbell Alumna Jenni Emery spoke with Rubens at Abracademy about Organisational Change and how if you give people the right tools and support to navigate change, it can be quite magical! Listen here. Jenni will also be taking part in Meyler Campbell’s Summit in May, read more & register here.

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WELLBEING

We all know how important it is to look after all aspects of our health and wellbeing. For this month’s Digest, we have collated an eclectic mix of resources that will encourage us to take exercise, to reflect and explore our creative side, and to look forward to the future.

  • For those of you who are already adept at Yoga or Pilates, perhaps you could give Yogalates a try?
  • Skillshare offer a huge range of artistic courses and webinars so we have no excuse not to explore our creative side.
  • Amanda Gorman’s captivating poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration left us all spellbound. Inspired by this The Atlantic have shared their 9 poems to read this weekend
  • And finally, why not start to look forward to the Summer by sowing seeds for the future.

PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

Abundance is Our Future
Is the world actually getting worse, or are our minds hardwired by evolution to pay acute attention to the negative as a way of survival? In this TED Talk, Peter Diamandis shares some statistics that show much better the world has really become. A positive outlook for us all. Read more

EQUALITY, INCLUSION & DIVERSITY

The Difference Between First-Degree Racism and Third-Degree Racism
In this important article from The Atlantic, John Rice explains how only when we are in agreement with what racist behaviour looks like will we able to make practical steps to make those behaviours unacceptable. Read more here

If The World Were 100 People
If the population of the world was only 100 people, what would society look like? Produced and Written by Gabriel Reilich. Data collected from 100People.org. [Animation by Jake Infusino http://jakemotion.com]

THE WORLD OF WORK

Workplace Mental Health is a Business Asset
Enoch Li, Founder of Bearapy, an award-winning workplace mental health consulting and training company, shares her understanding and knowledge of the most effective strategies companies can take to look after their employees and creative positive impact with their products. Read more

The Future of Remote Work
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) share their research report on what 12000 employees had to say about the future of remote working. Read more

COMMUNICATION & LEADERSHIP

How To Stop Interrupting
A recent article in The Guardian from Nancy Kline, a much loved friend of Meyler Campbell.  She explains that we are all guilty of interrupting, but the world would be a radically different place if we all gave each other the space to be listened to. Read more

Good Leadership is about communicating “why”
This HBR article outlines that if we present information without addressing our audience’s core questions of what, how, and why, we’ll sow more confusion than we bring clarityRead more

How to face the future with confidence & courage
This podcast interview by Mark Crowley with Margaret Heffernan centres on Uncharted: How to navigate the future, voted one of 2020 best business books of the year by Financial Times. Read more

Leadership, Family & Service
Listen to Brené Brown’s podcast interview with President Barack Obama. They discuss his life, his work, and his new book A Promised Land. Read more

WEBINAR RECORDINGS

For those of you who were unable to attend, and those of you who did attend but would like to revisit, all webinar recordings can be viewed by Connected members here

  • Psychology Distilled: Freud & Psychoanalysis with Jon Stokes, Watch Jon Stokes, a world expert in psychodynamically-based coaching, present his workshop on what Freud and Psychoanalysis has to offer on leadership and coaching.
  • Building Your Business: BrandWatch the first instalment of the three part webinar series – Building Your Business with Guy Ashton. This webinar features guest speakers Sue Leeson & David Lancefield to discuss Brand.
  • Building Your Business: StructureWatch the second instalment of the Building Your Business webinar series with Guy Ashton and guest speaker Richard Macklin to discuss importance of structuring your business.

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