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Executive Coaching For Spiritual Leadership In The Workplace
Workshop/Presentation for SlaM Conference 2000

An Executive Coaching process and parallel training for coaches, have been designed to provide spiritual development for leaders. Key elements include the spiritual presence of the coach, commitment to their own spiritual path, and their building of a soul connection with client. Client feedback is very encouraging and suggests that this style of Executive Coaching can be an excellent vehicle for facilitating both goal achievement and personal transformation in the workplace.

The quality of the change depends on the knowledge, skills and presence of the coach. The commitment of the coach to their own spiritual development is evident in their level of insight and advanced empathy. Executive staff enjoy coaching sessions and respond richly to the committed and nurturing relationship, the rare opportunity to discuss work concerns and for constructive feedback from someone whose expertise they can trust. While new managers seek skills development, senior staff goals are likely to be around issues of meaning and purpose, and development of being in the world. The twelve session model is a powerful performance process for healthy motivated people and is an immensely energising and satisfying way of working. Case studies will be used to illustrate the model.

Facilitating Spiritual Leadership in the Workplace: The Keys
Workshop for SlaM Conference 2001

In this workshop we will have a good time and identify our strengths and areas for development for facilitating spiritual leadership. We will engage in a dynamic process to test the hypothesis that the qualities of a good spiritual mentor, a good manager, a good leader, a good executive coach and an emotionally intelligent (psychologically healthy) person are all the same. It is hoped that Ted Scott (CEO Stanwell Corporation), Phil Harker (corporate psychologist) and Sr. Therese from the Benedictine Abbey, people who are recognised in these areas, will be available to lead a lively and fun process and subsequent discussion. We will participate in a stimulating research module to be written up and published, come away with a bunch of questions to help progress the field in the next year, and develop a flow chart for the elements of spiritual leadership and management.

Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Leadership
Presentation for Slam Conference 2001

This paper explores the emerging correlation between emotional intelligence and leadership, emotional intelligence and spirituality, and therefore spirituality and leadership.  Research into Executive Coaching for Spiritual Leadership is underway with 24 people from Stanwell Corporation and University Co-operative Bookshop. Each person is seen fortnightly for six months and coaching discourse recorded for analysis. Baron’s Emotional Quotient Inventory is used pre and post coaching. This paper will report on the research, the literature in the field, the emergent questions and findings and trends so far. Quality executive coaching nurtures the energy/spirit of each person and thus of the whole human capital of organisations.  This is particularly the case when executive management skills, tailored to specific live management situations, are developed through the indepth/inbreadth relationship with a coach.  I argue that spirituality should not merely be an extra to be integrated into work, but that it is both the essence of high calibre people we intuitively seek to invite into leadership and precisely what we are endeavouring to develop in our executive teams. And everyone!

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Cecily Moreton
Director, Moreton Executive Coaching
B.A., Dip.Ed. B.Th., B.Ed(Counselling), MAPS, COCP, AACC

An experienced as manager, psychologist, and meditator, Cecily is currently enrolled in a PhD on Executive Coaching for Spiritual Leadership at UWS. As her Sydney counselling clients were professional and business people seeking mentoring, she established an executive coaching company.

She has coached staff from Quicken, Oracle, Westpac, LendLease, DMR Consulting Group, Anderson Consulting, VodaFone, Department of Education & Training, Dept of Defense, StateRail, Beyond Productions, ButterFly Consulting, WorldSchool, NRMA, Zurich, University Co-op Bookshop Ltd and Stanwell Corporation Ltd. Workshop feedback from professionals is very positive - thought provoking, stimulating, interesting, warm hearted, powerful. Business presentations on themes emerging from her doctoral research, involving 24 executive staff from two companies, is generating much interest and demand for coaching from people trained in her methodology.

"I am keen to encourage a shift from assertions and generalisations about spirituality, leadership and management to critical thinking and research based programs."

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