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Hello Dear ICA Alum!

I am so excited to invite you to my next teleclass: 7 Simple Ways to Connect for Teens & Parents!  Even if you aren’t a parent, I would love for you to join us.  The 7 Simple Ways are awesome skills and tools that truly apply to any relationship.  But, even more than that it would mean a lot to me to do this with your support.  One thing I miss about being a student is the community and connecting with you guys.  Here is the information from my website:
Connecting during the teen years is one of the biggest challenges for teens and parents. There are heightened emotions, power struggles, conflicting values, hectic schedules, and technology barriers. But, staying connected is also one of the most important factors and we’re here to help…

7 Simple Ways to Connect for Teens & Parents

Over the phone on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 from 7 to 8pm Pacific Daylight Time
In person on Thursday, June 5, 2008 from 7 to 8pm in downtown Sunnyvale*
Led by: Cassandra Rae, certified professional coach
Registration required for this *FREE* class

*space is limited to 6 participants ~ this class will fill up ~ reserve your spot today

Class Objectives

In this one-hour class, you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn practical tips you can use to improve your relationship right now
• Receive support and encouragement
• Connect with like-minded teens and parents
• Share your process
• Experience group coaching first-hand

Now, we know how busy you are and each Simple Way is short, sweet, and to the point. Quite literally, we believe that you can drastically improve your life and relationships just by spending a few minutes a day going through the 7 Simple Ways.

Who is this class for?

This class is for:

• Teens ~ this is a great opportunity to speak up and give parents suggestions on how to reach you more effectively
• Parents ~ we welcome parents with children of any age. We have found that having a wide variety of experience and background enriches the learning process tremendously. If you have younger children, this is a great way to prepare for the tween and teen years.
• Anyone who is interested in empowering teens & parents ~ this is a great class for teachers, school administrators, counselors, and business owners that serve teens and parents.

To register, please visit my website at www.CassandraRae.com

Hi dear fellow ICA alumni,

I hope that your coaching business is florishing and that your are really enjoying your passion.

I would like to present to you an opportunity to not only promote yourself, but also to talk about your coaching and your coaching niche.

The opportunity that I want to offer to you is: ‘The Coaching Panel’.

The Coaching Panel is a weekly live internet radio show where I, the host, interview fellow certified coaches about coaching in general and their coaching niche. The interview is in two parts: 1) 1:1 interview, 2) the last Tuesday of every month I gather all the coaches that I interviewed during that month around a panel to discuss about a specific topic.

Are you interested to be guest on the show? Have a look at the website http://www.radiocoaching.net/TheCoachingPanel/ and check out the program. Places are getting filled quickly.

Of course, you can first listen in and see how it goes. The show is transmitted live every Tuesday at 20:00 UTC - 16:00 EST on Radio Coaching.

Any questions or doubts? Write a comment here or on the website of The Coaching Panel.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

http://www.xxx-coaching.com/

The Professional Coaching Portal started in May 2007 to build the awareness of the Coaching profession as an important competency, employable skill and discipline in traditional academia; and to develop a center for learning and teaching resources in the various sub-categories of Professional Coaching. The Portal is a volunteer project through academia-based MERLOT.org (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). The leader of the Taskforce, an ICA Alumni, has built a high-quality collection of resources pertaining to this growing profession and discipline. [See: http://professionalcoaching.merlot.org/]

Four positions are available for immediate start as Taskforce Members to continually build this collection of materials for Professional Coaches worldwide and the learning and education community to access and utilise. The collection is near a sufficient number for “peer reviewing”, afterwards which the Taskforce will evolve into an Editorial Board and select “worthy materials” to evaluate and write reviews. The selected members will receive orientation and training in the peer reviewing model and process via Webinar.

Benefits: Develop your Coaching knowledge and skills!

The volunteer position is a great learning opportunity for those passionate about education, training, continuous learning and knowledge sharing. It is also a way to gain experience in editorial reviewing; and get involved as a pioneer in bringing coaching to the academia world.

• Learn more about coaching tools, techniques and models as you research within your niche or area(s) of interest in the Coaching profession.

• Receive training on how to conduct peer reviews and build experience being on an Editorial Board.

• Build your professional network: Share advice and expertise about professional coaching and education with expert colleagues.

• Be recognized for your contributions to quality education: Submit your own original coaching models, tools, etc.

• Build expertise and online curricula/training materials to help advance your career.

Commitment: Approx. four hours per week for six months. This can be extended thereafter if desired.

Contact: To apply or for further information, please e-mail Joanne Vincett (CPCP June ‘06): joannehwa@gmail.com

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Do listen to the whole file - there’s an important PS at the end!

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An invitation to use an audio recording rather than typing words!

If, like me, you are tired of reading pages on a screen and forever typing (and correcting!) responses, let’s get together and discuss the use of audio files as a medium of getting our message out or learning more from others.

Alumni Strategy + Action Meeting #2London Friday 22nd 10:00 AM
Hong Kong Friday 22nd 6.00 PM
Sydney Friday 22nd 9:00 PM

1. In Attendance

Marianna Florea - Belgium
Urusla Goh - Switzerland
Joanne Hwa - Switzerland
Limor Shapiro – Israel

2. Promote the school and the brand - in all countries

Idea: ICA has a very clear language - we should get a group together who know what that language and tell the story about ICA. Maybe gather people face to face in dif locations

Idea: In every country there is an ICF chapter – why not present the new brand and the school in those places

ACTION: Robyn to talk to Limor further about her ideas on storytelling and how that might promote the ICA brand

3. Structure of Alumni

Approach: We should be smart and keep it simple - we are all very busy and we are all involved in so many organisations”

Idea: Perhaps regional chapters according to timezones. So maybe chapters could take turns to organise everything. Every month a dif chapter will lead the Alumni

Question: Why do people get involved in Alumni chapters – to network, to learn from each other - so there has to be a way to do that. People need to get something out of it

4. Communities of Practice for Alumni

Idea: Introduce Communities of Practice at Alumni level

- would be good to have a specialist running the CoP. someone who knows the industry very very well - they know about the industry and about the “business” side of things for that CoP

- Invite Alumni members into CPCP CoP classes special guest speaker who is willing to share real life case study of their practice in that particular niche.

5. Build a Community Network

Idea: develop Alumni activities and technological tools to support that. Tools to include:

- ability to find each other by country, area of specialisation, interestes, previous profession etc.

6. Business Development Groups

Approach: There are so many ideas about the sorts of groups we could run - so many things to choose from - so we should keep it simple

Question: Why would you become involved in ICA Alumni:

1. to get support for my business
2. to be exposed to new ideas - coaching ideas, new tools
3. to feel like I am part of a bigger community

1. I would be involved in the school in whatever form that could be. would love to promote it
2. CoP”s
3. Business development

1. to be more involved with the school - guest speaker
2. CoP”s
3. Regional and face to face group

Idea: Once a year have a face to face event ???

Alumni Strategy + Action Meeting

New York:     Thurs 21st February 8:00 PM
Hong Kong:     Friday 21st February 9.00 AM
Sydney:     Friday 22nd February 12 noon

1. In Attendance

Augustine Chow - China
Kathleen Crawford - Australia
Maria Sinnesterra - Columbia
Joanne Crouch - USA
Bhakti Saraswati - Australia

2. Sharing our knowledge and learning with each other

Idea: Find a way to connect on:
- Updates on other countries (communicate what’s going on in other countries)
- share marketing knowledge and experience
- country updates

Idea: Introduce audio catch ups across the world (people record their updates and upload to the blog)

- coffee break explosion
- face to face - down the road
- special interest group (marketing, mind coaching) ( call for leaders)

3. Find a way to keep Alumni on track in building our businesses

Idea: Repeat peer coaching in alumni level (call for volunteer)
Idea: Develop a mentor program
Idea: Develop programs to deliver to other alumni
Idea: Find a way to enable Alumni members who are already running topic based teleclasses to offer them to students and other alumni

4. Structure of Alumni

Approach: Support organic growth for now. Limit the amount of administration and formal structure for the next 6 – 12 months until we have a more formed identity.

Idea: Possibly run a newsletter or publication just for Alumni

5. Rolll out of New Brand

Idea: Possible email countdown - 10 days to new brand…

Hi everyone,

The bridge number for these calls is:

Bridge: +1 218 486 1600
Access code: 844147#

We will use this same number for the Strategy+Action calls over the coming weeks. Please come here to the blog to check any updates to dates or times.

Please also note that I am varying the day of the week that the calls are on. I know this makes a bit tricky to remember, but I have had a few emails from people saying they can only make it on certain days of the week. So to maximise participation over the next few weeks we will rotate days.

Call Dates and Times
(I have only listed a couple of countries, please use www.timeanddate.com)

Week beginning Monday 18th Feb
Teleconference 1
New York	Thurs 21st 8:00 PM	Download Minutes Listen to Audio
Hong Kong	Friday 22nd 9.00 AM
Sydney	Friday 22nd 12 noon
Teleconference 2
London	Friday 22nd 10:00 AM	Download Minutes Listen to Audio
Hong Kong	Friday 22nd 6.00 PM
Sydney	Friday 22nd 9:00 PM
Week beginning Monday 25th Feb
Teleconference 1
New York	Tues 26th 8:30 PM	Download Minutes Download Audio
Hong Kong	Wed 27th 9.30 AM
Sydney	Wed 27th 12.30 PM
Teleconference 2
London	Wed 27th 10:00 AM	Download Minutes Download Audio
Hong Kong	Wed 27th 6.00 PM
Sydney	Wed 27th 9:00 PM
Week beginning Monday 3rd
Teleconference 1
New York	Sun 2nd 8:00 PM	Download Minutes Download Audio
Hong Kong	Mon 3rd 9.00 AM
Sydney	Mon 3rd 12 noon
Teleconference 2
London	Mon 3rd 10:00 AM	Download Minutes Download Audio
Hong Kong	Mon 3rd 6.00 PM
Sydney	Mon 3rd 9:00 PM

Project description

ICA Global is a long-term project to establish ICA as the world’s leading coach training company. In the first phase, we will offer the CPCP in four new languages: Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese and French. This will require translating all materials into those languages, sourcing qualified native language trainers, and determining formats for delivering the training. This will open us to new markets and establish us as experts in cross-cultural training.

Project Documents

none yet

Project Partners

We are looking for partners worldwide and have established contacts with universities in Latin America and Europe. In China we are also looking into potential partnerships.

Current alumni lending a hand to this project:

Maria Sinisterra, Ana Sarmiento, Ronny Van Staeyen and Felicia Lauw

Progress to Date (Feb 08)

The CPCP has been translated into Mandarin. We have initiated translations for Spanish and Portuguese and are looking for collaborators in these languages as well as French. In talks with universities about how to adopt our training into their extension programs.

We have also established forums in all four languages and are preparing to launch along with web landing pages in all four languages. (See links under “Global Forums”)

Where to from here?

We want to continue progress on translating our course material. At the same time, we need to begin to identify people who will be our trainers in those languages. We need to establish an overall strategy to answer questions such as, “What business models do we use?”, “Who do we want to partner with?”, “How will we deliver our program(s)?”, and “What markets offer the greatest potential growth?

Are you holding a teleseminar? Use this space to promote it.

Or post it to the Forum

http://icoachacademy.com/alumni

cheers

Robyn

Project Description

About 2 years ago we decided that the ICA brand needed a facelift. The orange mortar board hat was selected in 2001 when the main thing we needed to communicate was seriousness, academic rigour and stability. It is fine, but not necessarily reflective of our current direction or our diverse community.

So after an exhaustive re-branding process we finally arrived at a look and feel that we think is a great fit for who we are and where we are going.
Project Partners

Sense Advertising

Project Documents

Branding Document

Where to From Here

We need to work out a strategy for communicating this new brand in the following order:

- all staff and graduates
- all students
- all subscribers and members
- general public

Anyone got any ideas?

Three years ago we bought the domain http://www.CoachPedia.com
We have plans to develop a coaching resource using wiki technology. CoachPedia will hold peer reviewed and popular articles and will be open to the public for contribution, comment and editing. Our first task is to get clear on the vision for CoachPedia and to do this we want to establish an independant advisory board of about 6 to 7 people from all around the world. If you think you can contribute to this exciting initiative please comment below.

Project Description

The Coach Directory is an online searchable database of student and graduate profiles. It will enable clients to search for a coach using keywords and demographic criteria. It will also allow coaches to find other like minded coaches with similar niches or interests.

Project Documents

none yet

Project Partners

9 Lanterns

We are working with the Shanghai Office of this company to develop a new back end and front end to our online presence. A central part of this work is the development of an online searchable database of students and graduates.

Progress to Date (Feb 08)

We are currently in the mapping stage of the project. The project team at ICA are identifying all current IT processes and mapping out new processes. The team at 9 lanterns are starting the wireframes…

Where to From Here?

We need to identify the features and functionality of the Online Directory. What do we want it to do? What will it be used for?

We also need to gather examples of other online directories and for each one state what we like about it and what we dont like.

Who wants to begin? (Just use the comments field below)

Some thoughts by Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland….
Who is the program for?
In my mind the program is for companies who want to bring about a coaching culture. As a process it can also be used in many other ways ie Alumni supervised coaching.

Who are its Clients?
The program would be delivered by a trainer and coach. Or this could be one person with both skill sets. Our client would be the trainer/coach. Their clients would be whoever they choose to deliver this program to.

What is their worldview?
The coach/trainers world view is that they believe the power of coaching skills and can see that a coaching philosophy can bring about a coaching culture. What they need is a marketing package that supports them in expressing the value of this product in current day business terms ie ROI so they can ’sell’ it to new clients or their employer.

Unmet needs?
We have many students and graduates and also companies who come to us asking for a package to implement in their workplace. The needs they have expressed are usually around the need for coaching tools and materials. Students and graduates tell us that their ICA experience has been positive and they want to take the experience and materials to their clients or company. They also need support as they may be alone in doing this. They want to connect up with like minded people.

What they want as an experience?
They want to feel empowered, innovative, creative and supported. They want to be leading edge. They recognise that the intangible experiences hold great value and they want to be able to market this and be with like minded people.

Project Description

Coaching Supervision is a program set up to give graduates the opportunity to practice their coaching in a supervised context. It will operate in a similar fashion to existing Supervised Coach course but will be run in small self-forming groups or clusters

Project Documents

none yet

Project Partners

Graduates

Progress to Date (Feb 08)

So far this is an idea. We are looking for a member of ICA Faculty to direct the project

Where to From Here?

Tell us what you thnk of this idea. Let’s flesh it out together

Who wants to begin? (Just use the comments field below)