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NZCMC director & principal coach, Patti Gwynne, will moderate a roundtable discussion at the 2010 New Zealand CFO Summit.

The CFO Summit will provide attendees with the opportunity to interact and reflect over the key issues challenging them and their organisation. With 8 roundtables to choose from, topics will be led by industry experts and participants will be encouraged to add their own ideas, ask questions and share challenges.

NZCMC director Wendy Baker travelled to Singapore in August to deliver a 2 day mentoring and coaching programme specifically designed for senior managers.

The participating managers from 6 Asian countries were interested in developing coaching skills for their day to day management roles and in ways to develop a coaching and mentoring culture in their own organizations.

The training promoted a coaching approach to performance management and provided the managers with practice in the 7 key skills for effective coaching conversations with others at work and strategies to develop a coaching and mentoring culture to achieve business excellence in their own organizations.

Wendy Baker recently delivered the opening key note address entitled Mentorship - making the most of mentoring -at the 2009 2nd Symposium for Early Childhood Associate Teachers in Auckland at the Auckland University of Technology. This symposium is a day of professional development and appreciation for their associate teachers provided by Tamaki Makaurau Early Childhood Teacher Education Providers Network

Drawing on a social cognitive theory perspective Wendy acknowledged the way a mentor facilitates the relationship with a student teacher as the mentee, contributes to the student teacher's self efficacy and identity as a professional educator.

New Zealand Mentoring & Coaching Centre director Aly McNicoll is travelling to Bahrain to train over 100 staff members at Bahrain Polytechnic.

As the cornerstone of their 'Teaching & Learning Symposium', Aly will be presenting a series of one day trainings, including sessions on coaching skills, The Mentor's Toolbox, creative training techniques, The Power of Peer Mentoring & Managers as Coaches.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force have celebrated the first year of their in-house mentoring programme with a formal ‘Dining In’ held at Whenuapai Air Force Base and was attended by The Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott.

The pilot mentoring programme was launched on ANZAC Day, 25 April 2008 as a result of an idea put forward to the RNZAF Innovation Scheme. It has since been rolled out nationwide to all RNZAF Bases and Wellington Headquarters.

The mentoring programme is a voluntary scheme which cuts across rank and service areas to develop leadership and tap into the innovation and talent within Air Force personnel.

Aly McNicoll recently delivered the opening key note address entitled 'The Best in Social Good - what it takes to be a high impact Not for Profit organisation' at the 2009 Not for Profit Management Conference in Napier in March, .

Drawing on Jim Collins' Good to Great concepts, and the Forces for Good study - the 6 practices of high impact not for profits, the presentation summarised the challenges to becoming great and identified what it takes to make the leap.

International speakers and well respected coaching authors and practitioners, Professor David Lane (UK) and Dr Michael Cavanagh (Australia) ran two workshops in Auckland during March. The NZ Coaching and Mentoring Centre hosted the workshops and it was a privilege for us and our clients to be a part of the conversations and learning that emerged. Some of the practical coaching strategies and advice shared by David and Michael for individuals and organisations were:

What are the realities for managers as coaches in New Zealand organisations in 2009?

A recent Chartered Institute of Personnel Development survey in the UK reported that most workplace coaching is delivered by managers. If that is the lay of the land overseas, what is the current situation in New Zealand?

To identify what are the realities for managers as coaches in New Zealand organizations, the New Zealand Coaching & Mentoring Centre are conducting a research survey.

If you are a manager/team leader or in a role where you are responsible for other staff we’d appreciate you contributing to this research by taking a five minutes to complete the short survey of six questions.

The NZ Coaching & Mentoring Centre welcomes International Associate, Professor David Lane to New Zealand for his 3rd visiting expert series in March. David is both an academic, an author and a senior practitioner of executive coaching in the UK.

On his last visit in 2007 he was the keynote speaker for the inaugural Mentoring & Coaching Forum (Building Momentum) held in Auckland where he presented the results of his case study research on the realities of coaching in UK organizations.

Forum attendee, executive coach Una Ryan said: "David’s wealth of knowledge and passion for coaching contributed to an in depth learning experience that was both conceptual and practical. The day delivered more than I expected."

This is our ninth year of providing specialist coaching and mentoring services to organisations throughout Australasia and we have started 2009 with a name change to better reflect the nature of our work and the future of the industry.

We are now the New Zealand Coaching & Mentoring Centre and have lots of good material on our new website www.coachingmentoring.co.nz that will be of interest to workplace learning professionals as well as details of all our major courses and events.