18 November 2004
Donna, Carl, Carmen, Mandy, Sue, Lloyd, Irene, John
Donna (first timer)
- With Action International, a coaching franchise
- Focus on business results and business issues - "Work ON your business, rather than IN your business"
- Member of the ASTD
Carmen
- I've been having fun!
- Doing training and coaching with the government
- I recently started looking at Abundance, it's very exciting
- Joan and I are doing "2005 - Your Year of Action", $1440 for the year
Carl
- Carl attended the ICF conference in Quebec with Irene and Dianne
- I'm working on a presentation for the HP Coaching Network on incorporating coaching as part of your job in HP
Mandy
- I have two new clients this week!
- I'm struggling with identifying a niche for my coaching
- I just got done building a chest of drawers
Lloyd
- Recently I've become fascinated with communicating with clients in Shanghai and Japan
- I've started a couple of new books - one with Irv Katz, "Coaching for Longevity", the other I'm doing on my own, "How to live a passionate life". I'm interested in hearing stories from people about passion in their life.
- "Total Life Coaching" (Pat and Lloyd) is supposed to be in bookstores next week
- Lloyd plans to present at the ICF conference next year in San Jose
Sue
- I'd love to have a discussion at a meeting next year about passion and career
- Marcia Bench's Career Coach Institute has a program around retirement coaching
- I'm getting settled after moving to Loveland
- I just finished my third class at DU, on Organizational Culture - I did my previous workgroup as the case study
- I met with the City of Fort Collins about mediation, it turns out that Lucinda has presented to them about coaching. They're very excited about the concept of combining the two together in a constructive way. They are also interested in spending some time focusing on personal responsibility, I might want to work with someone else in this group to put that together (Mandy and Carmen expressed interest).
- I'm trying to figure out my balance now.
John
- I'm currently not coaching but I want to, there's not much time to develop my business - I'm working full time
- I've been training my replacements - this will really help me to coach people who are dealing with the effects of offshoring.
Irene
- Led second annual research symposium at the ICF conference.
Why are resources valuable?
- Curiosity
- People
- Don’t re-create what already exists
- Heart
- Gives validity
- Be receptive to the modifications it makes to our interior life
- Be an authentic coach, be willing to incorporate new information, new habits and modify your being. Leads to you catalyzing your clients, transformed by the nature of the relationships. Risk that kind of vulnerability. Difference of reading a map and traveling the route.
Irene:
- Book: ICF Coaching Research Symposium – Proceedings of the Research Symposium. 2003 and 2004. Includes papers, as well as this year’s keynote by Dianne Stober from NCCA! Theme – research isn’t just for researchers. Practicing coaches can do research and researchers should do coaching. Available via sending an email to: icfoffice@coachfederation.org. $29.95 for last years and $34.95 for this year’s, plus shipping. Coaching research is still in its infancy. Little data on effectiveness of coaching. Includes data and theoretical. Irene has the tapes if anyone wants to borrow them.
- Pamphlet: Research kit for the practicing coach. – email to research@adlercoach.com.
Lloyd:
- Book: Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons Skills and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice…and Your Life By Lloyd Thomas and Patrick Williams from NCCA: A variable encyclopedia. Historical lessons for leading a fulfilled life. Tools, exercises, and questions available to address specific issues. Self development – use it for your own development as a coach, enabling using it authentically with clients. Impacts your being as coach. 1-800-233-4830,or write W.W. Norton & Company, 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Dunmore, PA 18512.
Sue:
- Good to Great, The Hedgehog Concept.
- Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
John:
- Internet: Curiosity is John’s most commonly used resource. Couple that with internet search engines advanced features for information.
Carmen:
- Book by Emoto: Mysteries of Water, extension from movie “What the Bleep”
- Book: Cellular Wisdom by Joan King. Used for determining your purpose.
- Book: The Four Agreements
- Coachville Teleclasses - Skills
Dianne (absent, but sent the following by email)
- Book: Exectuive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives.
- Book: Behavioral Coaching: How to Build Sustainable Personal and Organizational Strength.
Donna
- Network of 550 Action International Business Coaches.
- Book: The E Myth, The E Myth Revisited. A must read for business owners. A formula for change: dissatisfaction, vision, action. Overcome resistance.
- DISC Profile Simple and understandable. Adaptive and natural behavior.
- NLP used to determine how they learn so she can address them the way they need to be addressed.
Mandy
- Book: Co-Active Coaching by Laura Whitworth, et. al. Great questions.
Carl
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Group Discussion
- Idea for another meeting: Discuss how someone’s vision can expand upon itself. Maintain their enthusiasm toward their vision by completing goals to get there.
- Book: Masterful Coaching by Hargrove plus fieldbook.
- The Power of Now: Live in the now to focus in the moment.
January – March
For the January and April meetings we plan to use a new approach. A community of practice is “a group of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and who interact regularly to do it better.” –E. Wenger
The idea will be to pick a topic and everyone who comes to the meeting can bring their ideas, resources, tools, theories, skills and exercises. People can also do demonstrations or otherwise model concepts. For January we will focus on tapping into people’s passions and how to close the gap between passions and work. For April, we hope to select a topic that will take a challenge presented by Dianne in March relative to research and coaching.
Please come and experience a new approach to learning!