Coaching for Career Development and AGM

THURSDAY 10th MARCH 2016 - 10 for 10:30 am The Naval Club 38 Hill Street Mayfair London W1J 5NS

Speakers: Dr Paul Brewerton The application of Strengthscope® to facilitate career coaching

decisions and propel clients forward Rob Archer Headstuck! Why so many of us get stuck in career paralysis…

and what to do about it We are delighted to welcome both Dr Paul Brewerton and Rob Archer to our Coaching for Career Development Event. The two sessions will take the form of workshops with plenty of opportunity for participation and learning.

In the morning Dr Paul Brewerton’s interactive session will focus on the application of the strengths approach and Strengths Partnership’s proprietary assessment system, Strengthscope®, to facilitate career coaching conversations and to propel clients forward. Delegates will get the opportunity to complete the Strengthscope® profiler and explore how it relates to career coaching. In addition to being an Associate Fellow of the BPS and Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Paul is co-founder and Joint Managing

Director of Strengths Partnership Ltd, a specialist provider of strengths-focused assessment and development services. Paul’s standout Strengthscope® strengths are: Collaboration, Decisiveness, Empathy, Self-confidence. He has been an executive coach for 15 years, having worked with leaders from organisations as diverse as Oracle, BNP Paribas, the Natural History Museum, BAE Systems, Panasonic, Lenovo, Santander, Bank of England, Legal and General, Samaritans, the Housing Ombudsman and RBS. Strengths-based coaching is now one of the most used coaching methodologies in business today, in particular in the executive and career coaching settings. The approach enhances career adaptability and therefore resilience since strengths are unique to the individual and extend beyond task, role and organisational boundaries. By understanding their unique Strengthscope® profile, coachees build confidence that when they transition from role to role, organisation to organisation, project to project, task to task and even meeting to meeting, they can draw on the appropriate strengths, at the right level and in the appropriate combination for success, ‘dialling up’ and ‘dialling down’ different combinations of strengths required of the new setting. By consciously approaching a new role, organisation and even a new career taking their strengths into consideration, coachees transition more easily into a new role without feeling ‘out of their depth’, as they are anchoring themselves in their own unique and specific contribution, rather than focusing solely on their expectations of the organisation, manager or team. Learn about your unique strengths profile and how the strengths approach can invigorate career coaching conversations, providing opportunity for fresh thinking and more confident career decisions.

Coaching for Career Development and AGM

THURSDAY 10th MARCH - 10 for 10:30 am

In the afternoon, Rob Archer will explore why so many people get stuck in career paralysis in the first place. He will then provide an overview of his methodology for getting people unstuck and moving forward with purpose. This will include an introduction to the application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to career coaching. Participants will experience several interactive exercises and metaphors, which use ACT and will reflect on their own career through two key ACT components. Rob is a Chartered Psychologist and coach with 18 years’ board-

level experience in both public and private sectors. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and member of the Divisions of Occupational and Coaching Psychologists. Rob provides training, coaching and consultancy for a wide range of clients in professional services, oil, gas and construction, FMCG, creative industries, SMEs and elite sporting teams in the UK and abroad. He has worked with leaders in many different organisations from BP, Laing O’Rourke, Mars, Slaughter & May, Bain & Co, 3M, PWC as well as ex-Armed services and even the clergy! The area of work that Rob primarily covers with his clients is around issues of meaning, purpose, wellbeing, and performance in the workplace. He specialises in applying ACT in the workplace and provides ACT-based training and coaching worldwide, through his company, The Career Psychologist. He regularly presents at national and international conferences on the subject and co-authors a blog workingwithact.com, which has been listed as one of the leading Positive Psychology blogs in the world. So many people in the workplace feel unfulfilled and disengaged yet at the same time, their own doubts and fears prevent them from making changes. Many become stuck. Using a combination of decision science and applied psychology, The Career Psychologist helps people to get unstuck, move forward with purpose and find meaning. Rob Archer founded The Career Psychologist in 2009 and since then has been pioneering the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), to workplace and career coaching. ACT currently has over 100 randomised control trials demonstrating its effectiveness across a huge range of outcomes, including workplace productivity and wellbeing. The ACT literature is also clear why these changes happen. The principal mechanism of change in ACT is called psychological flexibility (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999). This is the skill of acting in line with one’s long term values, as opposed to being controlled by our thoughts and feelings (Bond, Flaxman, & Bunce, 2008). By developing psychological flexibility people can start to make life changes in the presence of fears and doubts, taking their demons along for the ride.

Programme 10:00 Guests arrive/tea & coffee 10:30 Introductions and logistics/house keeping 10:45 – 12:45 Dr Paul Brewerton - The application of Strengthscope® to facilitate

career coaching decisions and propel clients forward 12:45 – 13:00 The Psychometrics Forum AGM 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Rob Archer - Headstuck! Why so many of us get stuck in career

paralysis…..and what to do about it. (15:00 - 15:15) Tea/Coffee break

Booking Details The workshop, including lunch, is £65 for members and £95 for non-members. If you sign up for membership at the time of booking and pay by direct debit, you can take advantage of the members’ reduced booking fee. For membership, please go to http://www.psychometricsforum.org/join/aaa/ or contact our administrator Caro Leitzell (tel: 01962 880920/email: admin@psychometricsforum.org) for a membership form. Please reserve your place by completing the enclosed form and sending it to Caro Leitzell, along with your payment, at the address on the form or email the form with details of your payment to admin@psychometricsforum.org by: Friday 26th February 2016. Once your booking is confirmed and paid for, you will get the opportunity to complete the Strengthscope® profiler for the morning session, so we do need to have notification of your attendance two weeks in advance of the event. Please note that we will only accept a booking once the attendance fee is paid. Receipts will be mailed to you. If you need to cancel, a full refund is available up until Friday 26th February. List of Attendees We will publish a list of attendees for distribution at the meeting, which will include email addresses where available. If you are attending, but do not wish your details to be included, please let us know beforehand (on the booking form). Continuous Professional Development CPD certificates will be handed out to those attending the meeting. We are sure you will find this event a valuable and enjoyable day and very much look forward to seeing you there. Yours sincerely Xanthy Kallis Chair of The Psychometrics Forum Tel: 07985 206 551 or email: xanthy85@yahoo.co.uk Forthcoming events Tuesday, 9th February Saville Consulting WAVE Transfer Training Thursday, 23rd June TPF Event: Uses and Abuses of Assessment Centres For further information please see: http://www.psychometricsforum.org/news-and-events/news-and-events-2/ and our LinkedIn group.