Chapter
Survey LAST CHANCE
It's been several years since our last survey
was administered, and as your Leadership Team, we want to
improve your Chapter Participation experience and make it
as enjoyable and beneficial as possible. Your participation
will be greatly appreciated and valued in planning our next
year.
Purpose:
To understand more clearly who our members
are, what are their current and future needs and how effectively
we are at meeting the current and emerging needs.
From your input we will strive to keep this
Chapter interactive, communicate with clarity to our members
when promoting news and events for the Chapter, calibrate
our future projects, spend with fiscal responsibility in the
needs and desires of the chapter members, and offer the best
customer service possible to our membership -- you, our clients.
If you have not participated in this important
Chapter Survey, please do so that we may improve our offerings
to serve your needs as members.
To participate in the survey, click the following
link:
http://www.assistx.net/survey/index.php?sid=2
Thank you for your participation.
Next
Chapter Meeting Thursday, February 9th
Business
Solution Workshop
5:00 - 6:00pm
THE SECRET WEAPON TO MAXIMIZE
YOUR PROFITS
Presented by: Beth Schneider, Chief Infopreneur
Why is it that success comes so easily for
some and is such an uphill battle for others? Those who are
making it know the secret. The money is in the system! Find
out how you can find the money, free time and prestige hiding
in your business.
Beth will teach you:
- Why the average business owner throws
at least $15,000 a year out the window and what you can
do about it
- A simple 3-step plan that will show
you how to work fewer hours and increase profits
- How to increase your productivity
by as much as 600%
- How to increase profits by as much
as 250%
Headliner Event:
6:00 - 8:30pm
THE GENERATIONAL CONVERSATION
- AND THE GAPS
Presented by: Hal Hendrix
Mr. Hendrix is a seasoned Organizational
coach, and was recently on our panel of experts in November
2005 "Blurring the Line: Business vs. Life Coaching".
Hal is an expert in the Myers-Briggs assessment tool, the
Polaris Leadership & Management 360 Survey and also an
expert in the generational differences between the "Silent
Majority", "Baby Boomers", "Gen X"
and "Gen Y". In speaking with your clients (whether
life coaching or business coaching) it is essential to note
the differences between the generations as they "listen
differently", and their priorities are very different
one generation from another.
As a result of Hal's presentation
you will leave with:
- A better understanding of how to
listen "differently"
- A clearer awareness of the challenges
of the future and how you might assist your clients in designing
actions to be success going forward.
- Tools you can use immediately with
your current clients.
Additional Information & Registration:
www.icforangecounty.org/eventReg.htm
In
Case You Missed It
Old Values Not Serving You Now?
When you’re driving in slow traffic,
do you find yourself wondering why you’ve made specific
life choices.
Do you find yourself in the endless cycle
of, "why did I or didn’t I?" Sometimes these
choices are made in convention with your culture, community
or family expectations, or even due to your spiritual faith.
We find that most people make decisions according to a few
"core values.” However, many have never taken the
time to articulate those principles.
We are all complex beings, holding a various
set of core values, not just those that are academic or corporate
related. If you think you represent only a finite set of core
values, the following categories might re-start your thinking
cycle. Consider where your deep views rest on: patriotic convictions,
importance of grandparents and relatives, intellectual growth,
financial ethics, respect for others, moral world view, and
reverence for any higher source.
As we progress on our aging journey, having
families, becoming a political advocate, assuming social responsibility
and assuring environmental safety for generations to come,
our outlook may shift or radically change from those you previously
held. And in all transitions, this is a natural part of your
life’s journey -- explore it without guilt.
If you’re evaluating where you stand
today with core values, ask yourself:
- What are your top 5 core values or most
empowering beliefs today? Are they significantly different
than those you were reared under? Do you practice these
in your decision making today?
- Are you still living with core values
from the past that make your decisions non-congruent with
who you truly are today? Do you suffer guilt over "breaking
out" of the family or social practices in pursuing
your life’s direction? What would be the benefits
and consequences of pursuing your “life’s”
direction when it breaks out of the family’s or generally
accepted social practices?
- When you don’t get the results
you want from your actions, what standards are you making
your decisions by, family tradition, invisible community
rules, and conformity to certain organizations, etc.?
- If you continue to pass authority to outdated
core values, what do you envision your future to look like?
What mood does this place you in? Resignation, resentfulness,
apathy, sadness?
“He that will not apply new remedies
must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Francis Bacon
If you would like to present an item for
this column, please send it to our editors.
President’s
Message: Patricia Hirsch
To have begun the year with such an exciting
speaker lineup this month, was an exciting start to the New
Year as your President! Christine Edick had me thinking of
the various forms of how I present myself from the view of
Neuro Linguistic Programming; visionary, auditory digital,
kinesthetic, or auditory. Whether I embody a new learning
or not, as a coach I am intrigued anytime I am encouraged
to take a look at a new way to think and learn, and consequently
thoroughly enjoyed my first exposure to NLP.
How about that conversation Joe Schneider
had with us? “Are you enjoying a hobby, or running a
business.” Whew! He had us take a good hard look at
who we say we are in the business of coaching and asked how
we are going to become successful in the world of entrepreneurship.
Just the handouts alone are a great outline in the importance
of our future success, and what is not. The five points from
which Joe spoke were empowering when we consider operating
our businesses: 1) to make enough money initially to support
myself; 2) to grow my business to a Small Business Start-up;
3) the significant skills to offer a company; 4) the skills
needed by companies; and 5) I am an Entrepreneur owning a
consulting firm selling skills inherent to coaching and coaches.
Could anyone have presented it any more clearly? Joe has offered
to follow up with us in August and will ask a couple of our
chapter participants to showcase as case studies from his
definition of success. Do your homework and keep his points
in mind when you take on the creating the success of your
business!
On to a quick report on the status of your
new Board of Directors is as follows. I have the privilege
of working with an esteemed team of coaches; please go out
to the website to view their mini-biographies, which includes
where they have been trained or are being trained as ICF coaches.
Your 2006 Board has already, in the last two months and before
their agreements even began, come together for a four-hour
retreat to work on the future of the ICF-OC Chapter. In our
first retreat, the Board developed the purpose from where
we will operate as the leaders of your chapter. That purpose
is:
“The ICF-OC Chapter is the organization
where coaches improve their coaching skills. We are a vibrant
and welcoming culture. We market coaching and create awareness
of the benefits of coaching.”
At the end of January, we meet again for
a second four-hour retreat to determine our strategy components
in moving forward.
Now, please sit down take 10 minutes to help
us! At the end of 2005, a Survey Task Force (STF) was put
together by Elaine Arons, the Immediate Past President. The
STF spent many hours to collect questions for and create a
survey to determine from YOU, our Chapter Participants, what
you want from your professional coaching organization. I request
that you spend up to ten minutes to answer the questions we
are asking you. The survey is located at: http://www.assistx.net/survey/index.php?sid=2.
Thank you for your participation.
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