President’s
Message- Doug Gfeller
Welcome to the ICF Orange County Chapter Newsletter!
5:00 – 6:00 pm Launching and Leading Group Coaching Programs
5:30 – 6:00 pm Networking
6:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner and Featured Speaker: Coaching Teams: Tapping this Extraordinary Potential
Business And Coaching Excellence Program
5:00 - 6:00pm
| Launching and Leading Group Coaching Programs featuring Mary Allen, CPCC, MCC |
Among the things you will learn during this content rich interactive program are:
- FIVE surprising ways leading groups will INVIGORATE your speaking and coaching business.
- Why your audience (and you) will LOVE group coaching...and want you to create one.
- Effective marketing strategies to effortlessly attract participants to your NEW group coaching program.
- Nuts and bolts of launching and leading your own group coaching program, including what NOT to do.
- Avoiding sticky situations in groups.
- How groups can positively impact your bottom line income (in a way you'll love!)
About the Presenter:
Mary Allen, CPCC, MCC is a master certified coach, speaker and author of the popular book The Power of Inner Choice. Mary leads multiple year-long coaching and mastery program called The Success and Inner Peace Boot Camp in addition to full-time coaching. She hosts Conversations with the Masters and Conversations with the Masters of Coaching interviewing best-selling authors and MCC’s. This fall, Mary is co-leading Beyond Six Figures for Coaches: Launching & Leading Group Coaching Programs. Mary graduated from both CTI and Coach U. www.lifecoachmary.com
Headliner Event
6:30 - 8:30pm
| Coaching Teams: Tapping this Extraordinary Potential with Phil Sandahl MCC, CPCC |
As a niche within our profession, team coaching is growing rapidly, here in the US and around the world. Organizations want to maximize impact and more and more they are focused on the team as the leverage point for results. Our speaker is an internationally recognized coach and trainer here to share his experience and insight in this growing market.
Team coaching is a way to leverage your skills and passion to make a difference. This interactive session will give you a map to follow.
You will learn:
- The advantages of adding team coaching to your service offerings
- The similarities and key differences between individual and team coaching, and how to use that insight to maximize your effectiveness with teams
- A coaching model for working with teams that builds on strengths and ways you can apply the model to design and deliver team coaching sessions
- Ways to work with the team as a system and why this is the essential team coaching competency. How to train the team in this mindset to improve team dynamics and ultimately build high performing, sustainable and inspired teams.
About the Presenter:
 Phil Sandahl is co-founder of Team Coaching International (TCI), a global team coaching and consulting company. TCI also provides training for coach/facilitators in the Team Diagnostic assessment and coaching methodology. There are now trained facilitators in 23 countries and the assessment is in 13 languages. In addition, Phil is co-author of Co-Active Coaching: New skills for coaching people toward success in work and life, considered the leading text book on coaching now in its second edition. He is a senior faculty member for The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and a course leader in the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching curriculum developed at The Center for Right Relationship.
Event Registration Here
 INSIGHTFUL RESOURCES
A new perspective on cool tools to boost your coaching business
by Candice Brokenshire
www.theredbarncooperative.com
INSIGHT ON: Virtual Assistants
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the average small business owner spends up to 40% of his or her time on routine administrative tasks and don’t I know it! But things are changing around here. I recently gave myself a good talking to and decided it really was time to invest in me and create the space that I yearn for by employing some outside assistance.
Pam Vaccaro, president of Designs on Time teaches the Pareto Principle otherwise known as the 80/20 rule, where it is stated that approximately 20 percent of your efforts produce 80 percent of the results. She says that you will know if you are in the 20% if:
- "You are engaged in activities that advance your overall purpose in life
- You're doing things you have always wanted to do or that make you feel good about yourself.
- You're working on tasks you don't like, but you're doing them knowing they relate to the bigger picture.
- You're hiring people to do the tasks you are not good at or don't like doing.
- You're smiling.”
Even with this awareness you may still be wondering how a VA can help you, and I encourage you to think broadly; while you may not want to immediately relinquish control of all of your invoicing you may be prepared to have a VA maintain your website, distribute your newsletter, handle customer support, proof read or conduct research for you. The research aspect is a blessing for me, I can spend hours in flow mode reading articles on the internet so having someone do targeted research for me saves me many valuable hours.
 ASSESSMENT 101
by Glenn Stevenson
http://www.myselfsense.com
This month in our series on assessments that coaches use, I review a specialty assessment for people who work internationally. It is the Cerny Smith Adjustment Index (CSAI). It helps assess how an employee is adjusting to a role assignment overseas. The CSAI is actually a series of assessments, one of which is chosen depending on whether the employee is with a corporation, a nonprofit, the government, etc.
This is the eleventh in the Insights series on assessments. For an index of assessments already reviewed and a preview of the assessment yet to be described, see the end of this article.
Assessment: Cerny Smith Adjustment Index (CSAI)
Description: The Cerny Smith Adjustment Index is a series of screening instruments for improving field retention of business executives, employees, government employees, military peacekeeping personnel, humanitarian workers, students, and their families by evaluating and enhancing Intercultural Intelligence (ICI) in foreign countries.
It assesses a person’s experience of intercultural life, how one sees oneself, and how one compares to other expatriates facing the challenges of intercultural work, study, and living. The goal of the report is to provide a snapshot of one’s current experience to help understand oneself better and achieve one’s personal objectives. The Index rates one’s intercultural skills in five domains: organizational, cultural, relational, behavioral, and personal. The report identifies strengths, possible stressors, and challenges across a spectrum of skills, current experiences, and resources involved in intercultural success.
Certification and costs of training...
 INTERNET MARKETING KNOW-HOW
by Rachel Pradhan
www.IndraMarketing.com
What Do Coaches Knol?
As a coach, you know a lot about your particular niche’s pains and you can help them combat these pains. Why not let the world know about it through Google’s new product “Knol”.
What is Knol?
Although Knol has been around since December of 2007, its recent launch of the beta site for the public in late July of this year has created a ‘Knol’ frenzy. Knol is a website where people can find specific, authoritative articles written by those that have an authority in those subjects.
Why should I Knol?
Knol is a great opportunity for coaches that coach to specific niche’s. Why? Because it can very quickly set you up as the credible expert for individuals of which pains you write about! An example: There are several ‘How-to’s on blogging on Knol already, but I decided to write a Knol on how and why life and business coaches should use Blogger – click HERE to read – and already it’s received some attention. This is because I didn’t just write a generic ‘Blog’ Knol, but one that spoke directly to my audience. Another reason to start writing on Knol is because Knol is Search Engine Friendly, so having a article on Knol that links to your website will add some “SEO Points” in your favor.
If you’ve been reading this eNewsletter for a while...
 Coach Spotlight
Daniel Heimer
Shoreline Coaching and Development Services
562-420-3080
How did you get started as a coach?
As with many coaches I’ve met, I was coaching others well before I knew it was “coaching.” I have over 27 years experience in training and human resources and spent a lot of time coaching employees, supervisors and managers on a variety of issues. Over time I realized that the most satisfying part of my job was the coaching. I began seeking out information about the field and soon realized that I could start my own coaching business. So I enrolled in a certification program through the Coaches Training Institute and took the leap into my own business in 2005 and never looked back.
Do you have a specialty area?
I am just beginning to branch out into the health and wellness field. Recently I completed a 5-day coaching certification class for a brand new weight reduction and maintenance program called the Perfect Weight Program. It was developed jointly by Bob Proctor from The Secret fame and weight management expert Melonie Dodaro. It takes the client way beyond exercise and nutrition by teaching them some of Proctor’s LifeSuccess strategies. What has me fired up is that the program is beautifully structured to provide a considerable amount of coaching around these strategies.
Describe a rewarding experience you’ve had in your coaching business.
The most rewarding experiences in my coaching business are the times when you see a client succeed beyond their own expectations. We as coaches are privileged to witness these moments and know we had a hand in the client’s success. Plain and simple, that’s what makes coaching so gratifying and fun!
Where do you see yourself as a coach in five years?
I would like to continue to coach in the health and wellness field and target it more towards Baby Boomers. My goal will be to coach this group towards getting the most out of life emotionally, physically and spiritually in the “third age” of their lives.
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