Life & Executive Coaching Institute (LECI), providers of Life & Business Coaching Programmes in Dublin, Ireland, announce the introduction of its coach training programme to Barcelona, Spain.
See details below:
Following on from the ECI’s December newsletter and from the IIC launch on the 15th December, 2009 and as PaTrisha Anne (our Editor) explained in the December, 2009 newsletter; during 2009 the ECI Board and Volunteers worked diligently to clear the decks in readiness for 2010 and beyond!
As part of this work we can share with you what has been going on behind the scenes since the beginning of 2009 and it’s simply been all systems go since we realised a transformation was required to meet the demand of the world of coaching. In line with our membership, across 74+ countries, the ECI has adopted a new name - International Institute of Coaching. With this has come a new image – logo and website, which can be found on www.internationalinstituteofcoaching.org.
Download 2009-12-15_IIC launch slides from the International Institute of Coaching's launch - Gerard O'Donovan (President), Robert Bonhag (Management Team), Betska K-Burr (Webinars/Teleclasses), and PaTrisha Anne Todd (Public Relations).
This is an exciting time for the IIC and for the coaching industry.
Barbara J. Dalpra AFC
Vice President
www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org
The ECI's Coaching Achievements Awards are the most prestigious awards for coaching for success and achievement through coaching. These awards celebrate the achievements of clients by rewarding the coach with an internationally recognised Coaching Achievement Award.
These awards highlight the vision, the commitment, and the will to success of those who have used coaching to ensure achievement. The coach or coaches who win this award get the international recognition that their coaching deserves
The 2009 awards are now open
- take this opportunity to apply for your award!
Barbara J. Dalpra, FECI
Accredited Fellow Coach (ECI)
Deputy CEO (Operations, IT, Finance)
Want to make a success of your coaching business? Take this opportunity to benefit from your membership with the ECI - promote yourself through the International Coaching Register or as an Accredited Coach through the ECI's Coach Referral Service.
Joining the ECI is a simple process - click on this link and select the type of membership that will benefit you and your coaching business. Any questions, contact the ECI to get your answer. Barbara's biog can be found on the ECI's Volunteer page for Barbara or her coaching business details can be found on either the ICR or Coach Referral Service by using this link!
The ECI's Coaching Achievements Awards are the most prestigious awards for coaching for success and achievement through coaching. These awards celebrate the achievements of clients by rewarding the coach with an internationally recognised Coaching Achievement Award. These awards highlight the vision, the commitment, and the will to success of those who have used coaching to ensure achievement. The coach or coaches who win this award get the international recognition that their coaching deserves.
The 2009 awards are now open
- take this opportunity to apply for your award!
Meet the coach who won the ECI's 2008 Coaching Achievements Award!
JENNY MAGUIRE - No Guilt Zone - United Kingdom
As the daughter of a military man, Jenny had to learn the art of being confident at an extremely early age, she attended 14 different schools and learnt the importance of having to make friends quickly.
Following a series of unpleasant events in her twenties she went on the experience how that confidence can quickly be taken from you and replaced with guilt and fear. Having explored many therapies Jenny discovered coaching and learnt a great many tools and techniques that helped her to face her fears, rid herself of guilt and to start living her life to its full potential.
Today Jenny is one of the most optimistic, motivational and determined coaches you will meet. Her enthusiasm for life is quite infectious. Jenny received her initial Life Coach training with Noble Manhattan Coaching and has gone on to become a Dawn Breslin confidence coach. She has 16 years experience advocating for people’s right to live the life they choose for themselves.
She is a master at creating an environment that encourages and enables people to dare to dream, to face their demons and to achieve their dreams. She has a deep passion for empowering others. Her aim is to keep you focused and moving forward towards your goals, to listen without making judgments. To tell you the truth, the truth about where you are strong and where you sell yourself short.
Jenny's professionalism and unique style of creativity has helped her clients to turn their lives around.
Testimonial\Quote - In August 2007 Jenny's client started coaching with Jenny. Over the next 9 weeks something amazing happened to her. She really started to grow as a person. Jenny asked her to set goals. She passed her driving test in February 2008. Her family used to take advantage of her because she couldn't say no. She does now and has more fun. Everyone loves the new client.
Life coaching with Jenny has helped her take responsibility for her life. She now believes that she can do whatever she sets her mind to.
Gerard O'Donovan, FECI
Accredited Fellow Coach (ECI)
CEO - gerard@the-eci.org
Want to make a success of your coaching business? Take this opportunity to benefit from your membership with the ECI - promote yourself through the International Coaching Register or as an Accredited Coach through the ECI's Coach Referral Service.
Joining the ECI is a simple process - click on this link and select the type of membership that will benefit you and your coaching business. Any questions, contact the ECI to get your answer. Gerard's biog can be found on the ECI's Volunteer page for Gerard or his coaching business details can be found on either the ICR or Coach Referral Service by using this link!
The ECI's Coaching Achievements Awards are the most prestigious awards for coaching for success and achievement through coaching. These awards celebrate the achievements of clients by rewarding the coach with an internationally recognised Coaching Achievement Award. These awards highlight the vision, the commitment, and the will to success of those who have used coaching to ensure achievement. The coach or coaches who win this award get the international recognition that their coaching deserves.
Meet the coach who won the ECI's 2008 Coaching Achievements Award!
JENNY MAGUIRE - No Guilt Zone - United Kingdom
As the daughter of a military man, Jenny had to learn the art of being confident at an extremely early age, she attended 14 different schools and learnt the importance of having to make friends quickly.
Following a series of unpleasant events in her twenties she went on the experience how that confidence can quickly be taken from you and replaced with guilt and fear. Having explored many therapies Jenny discovered coaching and learnt a great many tools and techniques that helped her to face her fears, rid herself of guilt and to start living her life to its full potential.
Today Jenny is one of the most optimistic, motivational and determined coaches you will meet. Her enthusiasm for life is quite infectious. Jenny received her initial Life Coach training with Noble Manhattan Coaching and has gone on to become a Dawn Breslin confidence coach. She has 16 years experience advocating for people’s right to live the life they choose for themselves.
She is a master at creating an environment that encourages and enables people to dare to dream, to face their demons and to achieve their dreams. She has a deep passion for empowering others. Her aim is to keep you focused and moving forward towards your goals, to listen without making judgments. To tell you the truth, the truth about where you are strong and where you sell yourself short.
Jenny's professionalism and unique style of creativity has helped her clients to turn their lives around.
Testimonial\Quote - In August 2007 Jenny's client started coaching with Jenny. Over the next 9 weeks something amazing happened to her. She really started to grow as a person. Jenny asked her to set goals. She passed her driving test in February 2008. Her family used to take advantage of her because she couldn't say no. She does now and has more fun. Everyone loves the new client.
Life coaching with Jenny has helped her take responsibility for her life. She now believes that she can do whatever she sets her mind to.
The 2009 awards are now open - apply for your award!
Barbara J. Dalpra, MNMC, FECI
Accredited Fellow Coach (ECI)
Deputy CEO (Operations, IT, Finance)
Want to make a success of your coaching business? Take this opportunity to benefit from your membership with the ECI - promote yourself through the International Coaching Register or as an Accredited Coach through the ECI's Coach Referral Service.
Joining the ECI is a simple process - click on this link and select the type of membership that will benefit you and your coaching business. Any questions, contact the ECI to get your answer. Barbara's biog can be found on the ECI's Volunteer page for Barbara or her coaching business details can be found on either the ICR or Coach Referral Service by using this link!
Hello everyone!
Today I received the phone call that I have been awarded Coach of the Year 2008 by the Australian New Zealand Institute of Coaching! (ANZI Coaching)
Not only am I sincerely honoured and touched by this, I'm also completely thrilled, excited and jumping up the walls and off the ceiling (like an old Fred Astaire movie...only not dancing as well)!
There's a brief announcement up on the ANZI Coaching Blog today and the formal announcement comes out in their newsletter tomorrow.
You can read the short announcement here.
To everyone who nominated me, and in any and every way had something to do with this achievement, Thank You!
Winning an award like this can only happen when one is surrounded by and engaging with wonderful, interesting and loving colleagues, clients, friends and family.
Thank you everyone and I promise I'll follow through with the responsibilities of such an honour.
Cheers,
Noel
Coaching Exercises
1. Is there someone you need to acknowledge today for their contribution? Even if it's just a quick "well done" or a "thank you"?
2. How and when will you do it?
3. How and when will you celebrate your own contribution and achievements?
4. As a result of these questions and your personal exploration and answers, 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
www.askacoach.com
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Noel Posus (MECI) is a former member of the Board of Directors and former Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for The-ECI - www.europeancoachinginstitute.org http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org
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
www.askacoach.com Join our newsletter by clicking here.
You can now get 100 days worth of The Best Little Life Coaching Blog in the World in e-book form. We call is BRIGHT IDEAS and it is our fundraising project to support The Oasis which helps out homeless youth in Sydney. We publish a new BRIGHT IDEAS volume every 100 days, so you can also order previous volumes to complete your collection. Click here to purchase your copy today and help our young people make a new start in life.
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
A reader has written in with the following question for today's blog:
"I would like to hear your thoughts on the critical value of coaching for coaches. That is, the need for us (coaches) to continue to wear the "coachee" hat for the purpose of our own ongoing development and improvement."
Excellent question and one that I discuss with new and established coaches quite often.
There are numerous points regarding the potential value, so I'll list them here with some thoughts next to them:
- It is important to be a "product of the product". We not only need to understand the process our clients are going through by having experienced it ourselves, but also that we continue to be a work in progress ourselves just like our clients are. There is integrity and authenticity in this.
- Those coaches who are members of coaching professional bodies will in most cases be required to receive a minimum number of coaching hours themselves each year. Some may consider this to be just an obligation, or a hoop to jump through to maintain membership or to apply for higher levels of credentialling. Others may view this as a natural part of their own personal and professional development. It's important to check in if getting coached is being done out of obligation or desire. This isn't a "right" or "wrong" distinction, just an important point to be personally honest about.
- The coaching industry is unregulated and in my opinion unlikely to be regulated any time soon in most countries. Therefore, one way we can work toward self-regulation is to ensure there is an appropriate range of professional development requirements through coaching professional bodies, which can include the coach getting coached. At an industry level, this also shows integrity and authenticity.
- Many of the coaches I've met (and I've met thousands...honestly!) do not have their own personal and professional development plans in place, despite working with clients to produce theirs. I find this astonishing at times. I have had the great pleasure of teaching at a number of coaching schools and running development workshops for coaches in many contexts/situations over the years. The format I almost always use breaks down the development into Mastery of Self, Mastery of Coaching, Mastery of Business and Mastery of Industry. All of us have something to work on in those areas, and most coaches I have met have not made any plans in at least three of those areas, namely Self, Business and Industry (although they enjoy studying coaching skills). Coaches who get coached can close this enormous gap that exists across our colleagues in this industry.
- Coaches getting coached by other coaches doesn't have to cost anything! Many coaches feel they can't afford to get coached, and we all certainly understand the great variety of coaching rates out there. We could be asking our colleagues (include fellow students of coaching) to do some buddy coaching. This can be a commercially free arrangement! Various professional bodies offer volunteer coaches to support their members. Of course, there is also askacoach.com which offers email coaching at an affordable rate for just about any coach. There are lots of options out there, so I don't fully accept the argument that coaches can't afford it.
- There is one area which I think is also fair to raise and may be an unpopular opinion. I'm not necessarily a fan of systems within professional bodies which dictate who someone needs to be coached by. For example, to say that someone must be coached by another coach who has achieved a particular credentialling status within a professional body, has the potential to create two distinct negative outcomes: 1) a closed-shop that simply supports its members commercially and 2) a system that doesn't recognise the great opportunities of other coaches out there who are not affiliated with any professional body. I'll give you an example, my own coach (actually, i go to three, so I'm referring to just one of them here) has been a leader in the industry for 25 years, has written five books and coaches with both the UN and the EU. An amazing individual and according to some professional coaching bodies, he doesn't qualify as an appropriate person for me to get mentor coaching from as he is not a member of that organisation and doesn't hold a credential with them. Some bodies have recently changed their requirements around this. So, my tip here is to explore all the many options you have for getting coached. Consider who you could learn from best, who you could grow most with, etc. Try not to limit you own growth by other group's standards of who they think you should be growing and learning with.
Finally, here are some tips for those coaches considering to get coached:
1. Know what you want to be coached on. Be a good "client" to your coach and help them.
2. Follow through on your commitments, just like we ask our clients to.
3. Ensure you set up an agreement up front about how your coaching relationship is going to work. Do all the ethical, moral and professional steps you would expect in the same type of relationship you have with your own clients.
4. Research your potential coaches. Ask for references. Speak to more than one coach before making your decision. Be a good customer, as this is a significant investment (energy, emotion, time and/or money) so do what's best for you in making this critical decision.
5. Be willing to get coached by more than one person over time. This expands your own experience and growth potential.
6. Get your goals and action plans in writing, even if your coach doesn't ask you to. Do it for yourself as this is what you ask your clients to do.
7. Give your coach feedback. Celebrate with them their strengths and the value you are receiving. Share with them professionally and respectfully if you are not getting your needs met.
8. Be open to offering yourself as a coach to new coaches and student coaches. We all need support and it amazes me how many coaches come to me telling me that no other coach would help them. Give to our colleagues.
9. Keep a professional development log. Many professional bodies require it. You can be doing it for yourself, regardless of those groups, as a way of celebrating your own growth.
10. Get coached regularly. If you haven't been coached by anyone for six months, go out and get at least one session to just check in that you're not going stale, procrastinating, going backward...whatever. Have a regular check in to keep you on top of your own game.
WOW, I didn't think I was going to write so much! I'm sure I could have written more, but this seems like a good place to stop.
I trust this has answered the reader's question and has also been of value to other readers.
Coaching Exercises
1. What would the value be to you to be coached? (Answer this question regardless of whether you're a coach or not.)
2. When was the last time you were coached? What was the outcome? If it's been a while, what has been in the way of you continuing to be coached? If you've never been coached, what has been in the way of you starting?
3. What do you have to work on currently in Mastery of Self, Mastery of Coaching, Mastery of Business and Mastery of Industry? What could you be working on with a coach?
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
www.askacoach.com Join our newsletter by clicking here.
You can now get 100 days worth of The Best Little Life Coaching Blog in the World in e-book form. We call is BRIGHT IDEAS and it is our fundraising project to support The Oasis which helps out homeless youth in Sydney. We publish a new BRIGHT IDEAS volume every 100 days, so you can also order previous volumes to complete your collection. Click here to purchase your copy today and help our young people make a new start in life.
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
An international coaching register has now been launched for members of the public to see who is and who is not a qualified coach. The register has been set up by the ECI who are one of the largest governing bodies for coaches and coach training internationally. The ECI were invited to create the international register to protect the interests of clients and consumers. This register will also provide a smooth transition if the regulation on coaching comes into effect.
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The register is for any individual who trades as a coach, who help individuals and/or organisations for example, establish a work life balance, manage stress levels and build communication skills amongst many other specialist areas.
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Everyone who has qualified as a coach with a recognised coach training company should now take the opportunity to register. This will dramatically cut down on any misrepresentation that goes on within the industry. Many people have websites and call themselves a coach but have no actual qualifications. The register will stop these people and raise the profile of genuine coaching and how it can transform people’s lives.
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CEO of the ECI Gerard O’Donovan said “the register has been administered by the ECI for the benefit of the world of coaching and coaching clients. It is also a great way for coaches to get business as members of the public can search for registered coaches in their area. It brings coaching transparency at last.”
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For more information about the register please visit http://www.internationalcoachingregister.org
