Coach Express

• Want to learn how to create a unique environment where people feel safe and supported throughout their learning?
• Want another stream of revenue?
• Want to utilize teleclasses as a marketing tool for your coaching practice?
• Want to try out for a training position at ICA?

We are offering a Train the Trainer course which will begin on Tuesday, November 14th at 7PM EST. In this six-week series, you will learn how to develop skills in delivering training via teleclasses using the ICA model of training as a framework. We will also cover how to use competencies to evaluate the training course process and outcomes.

The entire course is only $299 US. You’ll get everything you need and MORE!

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Using EFT in Your Coaching

Date: 18th October 2006

Time: 5.00pm (New York EST)

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is fast gaining a reputation for it’s powerful ability to help us let go of limiting fears and beliefs. As a coach this can be an invaluable tool to use with your clients.

Join Brad while he takes us through the history of EFT, the benefits of EFT, and he will take us through a few rounds! This call will be an interactive call and you will be amazed! Whether you are familiar with EFT of not, you will learn how to incorporate EFT into your coaches toolbox.

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By Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland
CEO, ICA

I recently had the experience of contacting a potential client. I had been briefed that they wanted me to conduct a training needs analysis and to offer up some suggestions as to how they could create a coaching culture in their organisation. I made the phone call in the usual way that I make all calls. By this I mean I had no thoughts in my mind other than to make a connection with someone and to learn a little more about them.

I began by the usual small talk, the weather etc which I immediately ascertained that they didn’t want to have any small talk so we cut to the chase so to speak. I began by asking a range of questions to gain a better understanding of the potential clients needs. Again after a few questions with rather curt answers I gathered that they wanted to ask the questions. So I suggested that perhaps we begin with any questions they had. The potential client began asking me a range of questions,not to build a picture of their organisation and how I could support them, but rather questions about how good I was against all the other coaching schools she was going to be contacting. I explained that I could answer her many questions and began to do so when she abruptly stopped me and informed me that she had a meeting with her CEO in 2 minutes and could I write all the answers in an email to her.

To say I was a little taken back was an understatement. I immediately realised that this had been a supreme moment of power from the potential client’s perspective. (more…)

By Robyn Logan
Strategy Director, ICA

In the last newsletter I shared some of the most frequently asked questions new coaches have around blogging. In this edition I continue, this time focussing not on WHY, but HOW.

Q. OK - so I want to get a Blog, but I have no idea how to go about it.

This one is easy. There are several free blogging options. Each one offers a very simple step by step approach to setting up your Blog. You can also choose a colour or style theme and you can even have it hosted for free!

Here are three of the most popular choices. They all have their pro’s and cons. I suggest you have a look at each of them and choose the one you feel most comfortable with.

Blogger
Wordpress
Typepad

Q. I am not sure what to write about, or what tone to adopt in my writing.

Like all forms of writing, Blogs are a genre with unique rules and conventions. The best Blogs are direct, to the point, personal, sometimes funny, informative… A List Apart has some good guidelines…

My favourite Blogs fall into 2 camps:

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ICA graduate Kelly-Lee Mansi shows how coaching made a difference at The Electricity Distributors Association.
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