There was a fantastic email response to the earlier blog on the argument for coaches to get coached. One of the outcome questions raised to me was "Could you tell us more about Mastery of Self, Coaching, Business and Industry?"
Absolutely. And I'm also running a post-conference workshop on this very topic for the Inaugural ECI Australasian Coaching Conference: The Future of Coaching - Embracing the Opportunities of the 2010s.
Master of Self, Coaching, Business and Industry
This one day workshop will be held on Saturday 22nd November 2008 in Sydney.
For those of you interested in coming, and for those of you who can't make it, we'll be covering the following:
Mastery of Self:
What do you want for your own life and how you operate? What needs to be worked on in terms of health, knowledge and learning, social, financial, family, the partner within, partner and significant relationships, spirituality, career, business, giving to others and giving to self? We'll be using the Wheel of Life tools to assist in this process.
Mastery of Coaching:
How do you assess your current coaching skills? How do you check in with your clients for feedback on this? What do you want to know how to do better? What do you want to learn? What are your options and in what order do you need to do things? Also, we'll look at how to minimise confusion about how many coaching skills you have and how you'll attract clients as they're not necessarily the same (but many coaches attend course after course on coaching skills but not on business building skills).
Mastery of Business:
Do you have a business plan that works for you as an ongoing guide? What are your business targets? How are you currently measuring them? What are your business skills and how are you using them currently? If there's something that needs to get done that you don't enjoy or don't know how to do, what are your options? What is your marketing plan? How much time, energy, effort are you putting into it? Do you have a coaching profile and who knows about it? We'll spend significant time here as it is generally the area where coaches admit they need the most development.
Mastery of Industry:
Do you know what is going on in the global and local coaching industry? Do you know the key players and what they're doing? Do you understand the public perception of coaching? Do you understand the differences between life, business, workplace, executive coaching and others? Do you know how to develop into new markets? Do you know the research being done and why it's important to be on top of it? Are you a member of one or more professional organisations and do you understand your intentions and objectives there? What energy and effort are you putting into the industry itself and do you understand how that can pay benefits to you directly as well?
There are a lot of questions here and many more to be asked during the workshop. This is a very focused and intense personal and professional planning day. And I can guarantee that you'll get so much value for your $150 that you'll be surprised the investment is so low.
I'm keeping the investment low because I really want everyone who wants some help to step up as a coach to be able to afford to do so. I feel it is part of my purpose right now to be running this event as part of my contribution to the health and wellness of the industry.
Read more in the Conference Invitation Pack.
Or if you're in Australia, email me directly to register.
For those of you who cannot make it to the conference, please email me with your expression of interest to attend massive teleclass on this. The class version will be two or three hours and will cost A$197.00. (The cost is higher because there will be greater operating costs on my end than a workshop event.) I'm just taking expressions of interest now and will likely run this teleclass event in January and February 2009. If there is enough interest I will run it monthly.
Coaching Exercises
1. Read the questions above in the four categories and start writing your own answers to them. If you're not a coach, still work through the questions relative to your situation and modify those that aren't a perfect fit to the logical fit they need to be for you.
2. How do you plan your own personal and professional development now? What works well for you? What needs improvement in your planning and implementation process?
3. If you don't currently have a personal and professional development plan, what are the benefits to you creating one now for both the short and long term?
4. As a result of these questions and your considered responses to them, what are you committing to?
As always, if you need any further personal support in response to any of these coaching exercises, please consider using the askacoach.com service.
All the best,
Noel
Noel Posus - Master Coach
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Noel Posus is on the Board of Directors and is the Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org
Check out The Inaugural ECI Australasian Coaching Conference - The Future of Coaching: Embracing the Opportunities of the 2010s at http://www.europeancoachinginstitute.org/conference_2008/
November 20-22, 2008 - Sydney Australia
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