Coach Express

On March 1 we celebrated our first graduation for 2010, with 51 students from 17 countries, graduating and joining our wonderful alumni community.

Congratulations to you all!

Our March graduates celebrated the successful completion of the Certified Professional Coach (CPC) program with family and friends along with their peers and ICA staff.

We welcome the following March graduates to our Alumni Community: (more…)

Last week we opened the virtual doors to ICA and celebrated ‘Positivity’ with the world.  This inspired us to hold a further call so you can share your own personal positive intentions for action or change.

We know it is short notice, but this LIVE call is TODAY!

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Teleseminar Details
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When: Thursday, 2nd April, 2009 @ 7pm NY EST

Host: Karen Cappello

Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253

Access code: 893765#

Register: Make a Positive Change

This call is for anyone interested in coaching and is a chance to not only share your intent, but acknowledge and be motivated by the intention of others.  Maybe you have decided on a changed work-life balance, maybe you have discovered your niche, or for those who are not yet coaches, maybe you are considering a new career as a coach.  Whatever your intention for positive change, bring it to this call and share it with the world.  Just saying it out aloud will make you one step closer to achieving your goal.

If you are unable to attend this call, but would like to share your intent, please email us via training@icoachacademy.com

As some of you may know, my family and I moved to Shanghai just over a year ago.  We absolutely love living here and being a part of the ICA Shanghai community.  I remember when I first arrived, several of the students emailed and called me with support on how to get around and other great bits of information as well as making me feel so welcome.

Last week, one of our students Katrien, organised an ICA get together.  Below is the photo.  It was a great gathering and we all discussed how we wanted to meet up with one another on a quarterly basis.  Many people in the group have since volunteered to take on the next event and to host it in their homes.

The energy of the group was wonderful and I am always blown about how amazing each person is.  Every person has such an amazing story to tell ahd has achieved huge successes.  The ICA community in Shanghai is growing all the time and it is a wonderful part of the world to be in.  If you happen to be in this part of the world then reach out to someone in the ICA community to support you.

Photo from right to left:
Back row: William, Gus, Beate, Adile
Next row: Koca, Lois, Kang Kai, PoYee, Violet,
Silvia, Cecilia, Bron, Stefanie, Katrien, Lydia
Front row: Steve, Raf, Pin, Carlotta and Susanne.

Please join us for the following FREE teleseminars. These are open to anyone, anywhere in the world. Just register your interest below and we will send you the bridge line information you need to access the calls.

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Coaching as a Career teleseminar (English)
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Timely information about the coaching market, careers for coaches, coaching as a workplace tool and the ICA curriculum.

Cost: Free

Register now - > Thursday 12th February @ 8pm NY EST
Register now - > Thursday, 19th February @ 8pm NY EST
Register now - > Thursday, 26th February @ 8pm NY EST

The following teleclasses are only available to ICA students, graduates, staff and volunteers as they represent inclusions from our fee based programs. To find out more about becomming a member of the ICA community, please contact us.

Student Information calls
Getting Connected with ICA, Monday 1st December @ 7pm NY EST
Getting Connected with ICA, Wednesday, 3rd December @ 1pm NY EST

Meet your Student Community, Monday 1st December @ 8pm NY EST
Meet your Student Community, Monday 5th January @ 8pm NY EST

Coach Training Programs

Read more - > Certified Professional Coach Program (CPCP)
Read more - > Associate Professional Coach Program (ACCP)

Students in the CPCP and ACCP programs have a selection of over 60 teleclasses to select from when scheduling a timetable that best suits their lifestyle. Classes in December are held from the 1st to 21st, and then upon completion of a 2 week break, will resume again on the 4th January 2009
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Due to popular demand, we have scheduled a third time option for next weeks Train the Trainer Course.

The Wednesday 3pm time option is now full, but limited places are still available in both of the Tuesday courses. Our feeling is that these too will will fill quickly so, if you are interested in registering, act quickly to make sure your prefered time option is secured.

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Three courses will run concurrently, offering two different time
options (you must attend the same time option for the duration
of the course). To convert the time to your location, visit
http://www.timeanddate.com

** Time Option 1 **

When: Tuesday’s at 7pm NY EST
Start: 4th November 2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Facilitators: Merci Miglino and Isabelle King
Cost: $299 usd

Register now - > http://tinyurl.com/3qknbz

** Time Option 2 **

When: Wednesday’s at 3pm NY EST
Start: 5th November 2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Facilitators: Karen Cappello and Sheri Boone
Cost: $299 usd

Register now - > FULLY BOOKED

** Time Option 3 ** (NEW!!)

When: Tueday’s at 11.30am NY EST
Start: 4th November 2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Facilitators: Karen Cappello and Sheri Boone
Cost: $299 usd

Register now - > http://tinyurl.com/6s4l4u
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Want to learn how to use teleclasses to market your coaching practice?
Want to create additional streams of revenue?
Want to learn how to create a unique training environment?

ICA’s TRAIN THE TRAINER course, starting November 2008, covers all this and MORE!

This six week course will develop your skills in delivering training via teleclasses, using the ICA model of training as a framework. Students will learn how to evaluate training course process and outcomes, and have the opportunity to faciilate a teleclass within ICA. The course includes a mentor trainer to support you, a blog to reflect your learning, resources and worksheets, and audios from each teleclass.

Two courses will run concurrently, offering two different time options (you must attend the same time option for the duration of the course). To convert the time to your location, visit http://www.timeanddate.com

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Time Option 1
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When: Tuesday’s at 7pm NY EST
Start: 4th November 2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Facilitators: Merci Miglino and Isabelle King
Cost: $299 usd

Register now - > http://tinyurl.com/3qknbz

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Time Option 2
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When: Wednesdays at 3pm NY EST
Start: 5th November 2008
Duration: 6 weeks
Facilitators: Karen Cappello and Sheri Boone
Cost: $299 usd

Register now - > http://tinyurl.com/4y6zx8

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Would you like further information?
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Please email training@icoachacademy.com or visit our website.

This is a fantastic course, and excellent value. But, don’t take our word for it, check out the great feedback we have received from previous course attendees….. (more…)

by Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland

I have been writing up our new curriculum at ICA and one of the modules is based around confidence. I have been reading and thinking a great deal about what makes us confident. So before I go further, let me ask you the following question:

*How confident do you feel right at this moment?

Now, if you answered ‘very confident’ let me check in with you. Are you feeling really confident because you have done the task you are working on over and over again and so you know you can do it?

I have come to understand that confidence comes from within us. Let me use an example. I am very confident in reading a profit and loss statement. I gained this skill from studying accounting many years ago at senior school. I found I was really good at it and so my confidence grew. My teacher at the time enthused my motivation for this subject and so I practiced it more and over time became an A student. I understood the strategy behind the accounting practices.

Now, many years later, I continue to read profit and loss statements. It is like reading a book, I know the language, the structure, the details. I don’t need to ask someone if they think I am good at this particular skill as I know it intuitively. This is confidence.

Now let’s change this scenario a little. Imagine that I hadn’t learnt this skill at some stage in my life. One day I attend a board meeting or a financial meeting and a profit and loss statement is placed before me. I read it, feel that maybe I get it and then I begin to participate in a conversation around it. My ideas are encouraged and then someone challenges one of my ideas based on my interpretation of the P&L statement. I begin to doubt myself, as this whole P&L stuff is new to me. My doubts grow until I accept the other person’s point, not without a good argument though. I walk away feeling uneasy, even angry, as I was sure I had a good idea. I look to a colleague and ask them their opinion. They don’t support me or give me the answer I was seeking. So I decide to try the direct approach. I ask them whether they think I am great at interpreting P&L statements. They are nonchalant about my question and don’t make me feel great.

Okay so let’s stop and look at this picture of this person. Visualise how they are standing, feeling, looking. Not a great picture. I imagine they are slouched over, they are not looking happy and they also appear a little agitated.

Have you felt like this before? Of course you have! We have all felt like this at some time or another. This is the feeling of a lack of confidence.

But here is the very interesting point I want to highlight about confidence. At the moment when this person began to not feel confident, that is to feel doubt, they stepped outside of themselves to ask for recognition. This is also the time when our ego appears. It really isn’t a nice moment and it certainly doesn’t make us feel confident.

So here is the confidence equation.

Confidence = Self management

Self management = self awareness + self belief

So next time you are not feeling confident, ask yourself the question:

What do I need to do right now to better self manage?

Are you ever on the receiving end of spontaneous acts of kindness and generosity? I had one such moment last week.

I decided my car needed a wash, and not just any wash - a complete overhaul. I wanted to get rid of the 3 week old banana skin squished into the bit between the back seat and the door, and remove the crayon drawing from the side window! So I booked an expensive car detail. Not the sort of thing I would normally blow $80 on, but there you go, it was just one of those days. (more…)

Dr.Sraban Mukherjee, an ICA graduate, has recently received the ACC credential from ICF. He is the first such credential coach in India and South Asia.

Dr. Mukherjee is a known face in the HR Consulting fraternity in India and has more than 30 years of experience in leading HR functions of large corporate houses in India. He has been instrumental in bringing large-scale people-oriented changes in his areas of responsibilities at different organizations in India. At the age of 50, he felt that his skill of dealing with high potential managers required further enhancement. He then thought of unlearning his skills before starting on a new learning journey. He enrolled with ICA and completed his graduation in December 2007. His next goal was to make coaching popular in India whether at corporate or individual levels. He has written several articles in business magazine, given interviews to leading newspapers and has spoken on ‘the importance of coaches for professionals’ at different forums. Though he is working as Head of HR Consulting yet he continues to coach people in his free time. His coaching model has been published in Peer Resource Network Bulletin and newsletter of ICF, Australia-Asia chapter. His paper on “Behavior Change process in Coaching” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Coaching in Organization. He is also a certified MBTI and DISC assessor

Dr. Mukherjee is a Doctorate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Presently, he is associated with Hero Mindmine Institute Limited, a part of USD 4.2 billion reputed Hero Group of India, as Head (HR Consulting & Leadership Coaching). He is based at New Delhi India and may be reached at sraban2002@yahoo.co.in or +919810122614.