T&F Slack - Understanding the logic of fashion cycles
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T&F Slack - Understanding the logic of fashion cycles
London was once the ground zero of bespoke craftsmanship – NEE reports on how Tim Slack is on a mission to re-instate the capital’s lost traditional skills.
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Rising Star
As tourists increasingly turn on to Croatia’s hitherto hidden charms the national carrier, Croatia Air, is fast becoming one of the rising stars of the European airline industry.
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Brijuni - The Hidden Gem of Croatia
The archipelago of Brijuni is an extraordinary blend of natural, historical and cultural heritage. The mild climate and favourable geographical location, deep retracted bays and easily defendable elevated fortifications, have ensured the development of communities through successive generations on the island since pre - history until the present day.
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Vitoria-Gasteiz, European Green Capital 2012
Peaceful and accessible, dynamic, vibrant and modern – that is Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country, in northern Spain. This is one of the cities in Europe with the largest surface area of green spaces per inhabitant, with 45 square metres per person, in addition to over 10 million square metres of parks and green spaces which entice one to take a stroll, go on a bike ride or watch birds and deer.
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Kazakhstan - The Sky's the limit
Kazakhstan is a land of near-mythical promise, brimming with its own vast mineral resources and blessed with natural bounty. The nation’s economy is already the largest in Central Asia, but as Kazakhstan develops, there are still plenty of diverse investment opportunities for the savvy entrepreneur.
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Property investment - The L-Word is Back...
During the boom years, you couldn't move for estate agents, property developers, and TV presenters chanting the property mantra: Location, Location, Location. Now that the market has turned pear-shaped, their chiming clichés are conspicuous by their absence. Except for this timely piece...
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Germany's Youngest Major City
A total of 1.4 million residents and 960,000 gainfully employed persons make Munich Germany’s third-largest city and the country's second-largest employment hub. Bucking the national trend, the Bavarian capital is forecast to see substantial population growth continue.
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It’s tough at the top - so the old saying goes. Unfortunately in the current economic climate, dogged resilience and unassailable confidence in your own ability isn’t enough. Recognising your company’s limitations (as well as your own) and taking advice on how to maximise and develop them is crucially important to survival. That’s where business coaches enter the equation…But how do you justify the expense when budgets are being slashed?
Ed Modell, President of the International Coaching Federation, is the first to acknowledge the dilemma. “Companies are being expected to do more or achieve more with less,” he admits. “They have a very limited budget for professional development programmes, but this is exactly when professional coaching can be vital to an organisation.”
“The ICF found that companies that use or have used professional coaching for business reasons have seen a median return on investment of seven times their initial investment. Organisations typically see gains in teamwork, communication, employee performance, and enhancement of leadership skills.”
In 2006, Modell’s organisation conducted an extensive survey - the ICF Global Coaching Client Study. The ICF determined professional coaching produces at least $1.5 billion (USD) in worldwide revenues, and is now conducting its first follow-up research on the state of the coaching profession and industry trends since its groundbreaking ICF Global Coaching Study nearly five years ago. The results promise to be startling.The International Coach Federation (ICF) has commissioned independent research firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to conduct the 2011 ICF Global Coaching Study, a comparison study to its landmark ICF Global Coaching Study that provided a global perspective on the coaching profession for the first time.
Conducted in 2006, also by PwC, the first ICF Global Coaching Study determined there were no fewer than 30,000 professional coaches worldwide and that the profession generated at least $1.5 billion in revenue. At the same time also providing statistics on what coaches earn, the fees coaches charge, coach demographics, leading coaching specialties, and much more for key regions and countries around the world.
"The ICF has taken an important role as a leader in coaching research and the 2011 Global Coaching Study will provide coaches, coaching clients and the public with an opportunity to learn more about the profession and what has changed over the last five years," says Modell, a professional Certified Coach himself.
"We aim to track key trends that have emerged during the global recession and to bring the global landscape of coaching in 2011 into clear focus. We know the study will provide useful data and answer many questions about our growing industry."
The first ICF Global Coaching Study surveyed 5,415 respondents from 73 countries, including both ICF members and non-members. The ICF would like to collect input from even more coaches in the 2011 study. To gain this global perspective, the online survey will be available in nine languages -- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Business leadership and coaching courses might seem like frivolity, but it could mean the difference between success and insolvency. After all, making money in the good times is easy – but maintaining momentum during a downturn often requires a little corporate soul searching. Suffice to say, that critical self analysis isn’t really the forte of managers from the shop floor to the CEO.
“Anytime a manager has a conversation with another person about how to do a job, it's a coaching conversation,” says Myles Downey author of the best-selling 'Effective Coaching' and founder of The School of Coaching in London. “That communication can either be done either well, less well, or just plain badly. Training those people is a major opportunity in tightened straightened circumstances, when companies are trying to get more from less.”
Based in West London, The School of Coaching is one of the world’s most highly respected coaching faculties. It was the first organisation in Europe to teach coaching as a means to enhance workplace performance and is accredited by the ICF for The School’s Coach’s Programme as well as being recognised at Senior Practitioner Level by the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.
Formed in 1997, they’ve earned a reputation for enabling an impressive range of prominent organisations across the public and private sector to reach levels of team and individual performance previously unattained. Their client list includes BSkyB, Lego, O2, Ford and the NHS. The organisation was recently accredited by the International Coach Federation.
These are all huge entities with no shortage of success, attainment, or responsibility. But the objective isn’t about self-congratulation and back-patting, it’s about character development, motivation and purpose. This is watertight evidence that the relationship between business leaders and business coaches can and do impact directly on an organisation’s performance.
A good coach will be able to illicit resources from their client, but will also be able to use their own resources as a coach; their experience, their wisdom, their own problem solving capacity.
The ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process. Ideally, it should inspire the client to maximise their personal and professional potential. Downey’s approach to business coaching stimulates critical thinking to illuminate ideas – it’s a method that Socrates himself would have been proud:
“I hold that the foundational piece of being an effective coach is non-directive coaching - the capacity to cause the other person to do the thinking. My job is to help them follow that thinking and move through any obstacles,” he explains.
“The opposite of that is where the coach is doing the thinking. A good coach will be able to illicit resources from their client, but will also be able to use their own resources as a coach; their experience, their wisdom, their own problem solving capacity.
“The issue is that if the coach is reliant on their own stuff the client never gets to explore and inhabit their own authority and autonomy - and that's very, very costly.”
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