CDANZ Book Review Coaching Mentoring Hawkins Smith 2006

1 Pages·2006·0.08 MB·English

CDANZ Book Review

Author(s)
Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith: Bath
Consultancy Group

Title
Coaching, Mentoring and
Organizational Consultancy
Supervision and Development

ISBN
13: 978-0-335-218-158

Date
2006, 2013

Publisher
Open University Press McGraw-Hill

Wellington
RRP
$63

Stockists
Fishpond

25 May 2014
Ordering
Information

The Ministry of Education Library will
purchase the revised 2013 edition.

Reviewer:
Beth Gallego

Overview:
This book explores the interactive nature and process of enabling others to practise coaching,
mentoring and organisational consultancy through providing supervision and other forms of
development. It helps the reader to ‘polish the professional mirror’.

Key ideas:

Everybody is of good heart in whatever they do and problems, where they do occur, are caused
by the way these good intentions are interrupted or expressed.
The writers are personally committed to creating a context for real-time learning opportunities,
which addresses change in the here-and now, not in the future and only in the head.
Transformative change challenges major assumptions within your world view - the difference
between grounded commitment and its look alike sister – intellectual commitment.
Transformative change always has to begin with oneself and flow outwards

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Learning is always interpersonal

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It requires both parties to be fully engaged and able to stand back and reflect

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It is an inquiry in search of greater possibilities, not a search for 'the truth'

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New ways forward are co-created

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Any new understanding that emerges is always partial and requires further engagement to
test the limits of its usefulness

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It involves a transformation of the current relationship in the service of greater
relational capacity in work beyond the room

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A client or supervisee is always part of a larger context of influence.

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Practice joins head and heart: the writers call this 'fearless compassion'.
This book is a comprehensive resource for all practitioners in the careers, coaching, mentoring
or organisational consultancy fields and for those providing supervision and development in
these fields.

Content:
Introduction: Golden threads of practice – the consistent and underlying themes that appear in
all aspects of coaching, mentoring, and organisational consultancy.
Section 1: Coaching, mentoring and organisational consultancy
Section 2: Development and supervision including the seven-eyed process model of supervision
Section 3: Core skills and capabilities and key qualities and capacities including ethical and
transcultural.

Activities:
I have bought this book and am finding it both helpful and challenging in my practice and
ongoing reflections on my practice.

Final
Comments:

In the appendices there is a whole section on ‘the deference threshold’ - how deference to
other people’s assumed experience and authority can trigger our down-rating of the value of
our own experience and how to use that experience in the service of our client. There are four
examples of ethical guidelines from various coaching and supervision organisations.