The IAGC Business Hub is a virtual interaction point to support members of the generative community to share their ideas and applications of generativity in the business world.

On February 3rd, Ray Charlton will present: Opening the door: Generative Ways to engage with Sceptic.

We are eager to engage - we’re convinced we have something valuable to offer.

So, what’s the problem? Scepticism is healthy! Question everything!

Except - clients, prospective and existing, will very likely shut the door on us when in doubt. That’s not what we want!

What can we do when clients won’t engage? How do we sense what’s going on for them?

They may be stuck; consumed by urgency and overload; projecting responsibility onto others; desperate for expert solutions; afraid of ridicule or showing vulnerability; preferring to stay safely transactional; unwilling to start with themselves; uncomfortable with working somatically; defensive; dissociated; deeply doubting that they can trust us - or themselves.

How can we respond?

Join the workshop! Bring your own scepticism - it’s a friend in disguise. Work with others to discover how as practitioners we can gain the confidence of sceptical clients to engage in generative coaching and change - individually, in a team and in the wider organisation.

Speaker Bio:

Ray loves exploring – places, ideas, books, conversations, and possibilities.

He has worked in community development, organisation and team development, personnel management, training, learning design and with executive education programmes for leading business schools and international clients. He is the founder of Creativity and Commitment at Work Limited and co-founder of Alchemy of Coaching Limited.

He is a coach, supervisor, coach trainer, action learning facilitator and an Association for Coaching Accredited Master Executive Coach and accreditation assessor.

His specialist areas include organisation culture, leadership, learning to learn, creativity, innovation, quality, wellbeing and sustainability.

He is a certified NLP Trainer and NLP Coach, a Practitioner of Generative Coaching and a member of IAGC.

For more visit: www.alchemyofcoaching.com www.linkedin.com/in/ray-charlton

More information about an IAGC Business Hub Virtual meeting:

A typical virtual Hub Meetings has the following structure:

• Calls are opened 15 minutes prior to the presentation. A good time to dial in, say hallo and get settled to start. Beverages and cookies ready? Here we go.

• A very brief official opening at the appointed time – introducing today’s speaker.

• Then a 20-minute presentation, where a practitioner of generativity shares her/his views experiences, ideas on an approach how to apply.

• We try to structure the following discussion into one part more focused on the talk (20 minutes) and one part as open discussion on generativity in business (another 20 minutes)

• We close officially at the end of the official 60-minute call time with organizational remarks, infos on the next meeting and such

• Typically, we leave the call open for another 15 minutes for chatting, good-byes, and the like

As we ask our speakers to limit their presentation to 20 minutes we offer the following guideline on how to principially structure their talk:

• Open the field – What‘s this about – where in world of business are we?

• Start with why – What’s the motivation – what’s the problem and what needs to be achieved?

• Talk about How – Share methods, tools, experiences, thoughts – how do you do it?

• What’s it got to do we us – explain your view on the connection to generativity.

As we hold a generative field, anything can happen – still this would be framework to use as reference.

About the Hub:

The IAGC Business Hub is a virtual interaction point to support members of the generative community to share their ideas and applications of generativity in the business world.

Purpose

• To provide a space for Generative Practitioners to share their experience, learn from each other and experiment with new ideas and techniques.

• To enable the members of the group to get together to share their own unique experiences in business and to help each other to take generative change back to their own business context.

• To enable people to combine their significant business experience with generative change practices to create something new and significant for their business community.

Generativity is at the core of Generative Change: connecting to the self, to the intention (prize, calling) and to one’s resources. This is well known in the context of coaching, especially Generative Coaching. Yet, quite a few alumni of the Generative Coaching program do not only work as coaches, but also in other fields – in our case in business. From IT projects to digital in general, from leadership to organizational development. There are a lot of possible areas in which to apply generativity. And people are both eager to try and eager to hear of each other’s experiences.

“What would you be, if you didn’t even try. You have to try.” – Lyle Lovett

So, after the deeply moving experience of the 2019 London Generative Coaching Certification program we started to organize a video conferencing series that we call “virtual IAGC UK Business Hub meetings”. It runs for 60 minutes every other month and by end of 2019 we have enjoyed the first three instances of this already fine tradition:

1. “Generative Agile” – How to synergize the ideas of agility and generativity in a VUCA world – both for development and for a new digital leadership culture.

2. “Generative investigation” – How the generative approach helps unveil underlying problems in a consulting context.

3. “Generative Emotional Intelligence” – a generative approach for business leaders.

4. “Walking the Line for Leadership” – generative approaches in Leadership Development

The key dream of the Business Hub is to inspire people to apply and share. We experience our meetings as happy get-togethers and as deeply inspirational. We had great talks and discussions which helped get and keep the ideas of generativity alive. We hope to activate more people e.g. at the IAGC conference to participate, join, and share their work in the business world – and maybe we even manage to collect enough material to at some point in the future put together a book of applied generative action in the business world.

Finally, we hope that by sharing, learning, and creating community we can further the ripples of the generative tide to extend deeper into the business world to influence better ways of working together.

Our work is supported and recognized by the IAGC. IAGC global holds a space for recorded talks and a forum for continued exchange in the membership only section of the IAGC website. And they spread the word – just like this communication you are reading right now.

If you’ve become interested in sharing your contribution, please contact Till Neunhöffer or Jon Sleeper. We are always looking for more people to support this endeavor…

Jon SleeperPhone / WhatsApp: +44 7753 634850Mail: joncoach.sleeper@gmail.com

Till NeunhöfferPhone / WhatsApp: +49 176 7254 0621Mail: tn@cooperation-consulting.com