Current Events & News

• February 9 - Quiet Leadership begins
• February 12 - Results Certificate of Coaching Skills and Advanced Coaching Skills begins
• February 17 - Stop the Busywork teleclass
• February 17 - ICF-NYC Monthly Meeting
• March 5 - 'Ready to Fly': Journey of Self-Discovery begins

International Coaching Week February 7-13, 2010 February 7-13 is International Coaching Week, and 2010 marks the 15th anniversary of ICF. Coaching has become a well-known, valid and respected profession, and during this week coaches all around the world will be promoting coaching to their communities. The ICF-NYC Board of Directors is joining in the celebration. On Thursday, February 11th, we will be offering laser coaching sessions to the clientele of Cosi Restaurant, 257 Park Avenue South at 21st Street in Manhattan. From

4:00 – 7:00 PM we will be introducing the concept of coaching to Cosi customers. This is a perfect win-win situation. Cosi can offer its patrons something special, and we can show the community how powerful coaching can be. Thanks so much to Katherine Gotshall English for sharing her Cosi connection with ICF-NYC. Tell your friends and family, and stop on by and say hello. We are hoping this will be so successful that it will become an annual event and we can include more public venues. If you or your group are doing something special for International Coaching Week, let us know. We will include you in our bragging commentaries!

Wednesday, 2/17/10, 6:00pm - 8:30pm Topic: Using Change to Become an Effective Leader Presenter: Dan White, Leadership Coach, Organization Development Consultant, Author

You want change and you want it now? We have found Leadership Coach Expert Dan White to show you how to get it. Behavioral change lies at the heart of coaching, and facilitating it is what we do and what we get paid for. Find out the secrets to successful change from this prominent Executive Coach.

This comprehensive presentation will examine all aspects of change, including:

• Forces that Stimulate Change, such as willingness to experiment with new behaviors, self discipline, and the coach's role.
• Forces that Hinder Change—can you say "anxiety?" Learn how to conquer this huge stumbling block.
• Coaching approaches that facilitate change—neuroscience, existential psychology, behavioral psychology, and mind-body connection to name just a few

Join us for this dynamic presentation and be ready to change your future and the futures of your clients.

Dan White is a leadership coach who specializes in developing individual leaders and teams. He works with clients to strengthen their ability to inspire and align with their stakeholders. He specializes in coaching professionals to manage and collaborate with people, lead organizations, and innovate. He enables leaders to develop new behaviors and attitudes that align with organizational culture, constituents' needs and their personal values.

Prior to his role as a coach and organization development consultant, Dan served as Director of Organization and Executive Development at Citibank and has worked with organizations such as: Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Goldman Sachs, Standard and Poors, Dow Jones, The New York Times, Reuters, MTV, CitiGroup, JP MorganChase and too many others to list. He has taught the Leadership Coaching course in the NYU Masters Degree program in HR Management, and has published Coaching Leaders, Guiding People Who Guide Others, along with several articles.

Schedule: Registration/networking 6:00pm – 6:30pm; meeting 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Location: The Support Center For Non-Profit Management, 305 Seventh Avenue, 11th floor (between 27th & 28th Streets) in Manhattan

Save $5 by registering online in advance. Online registration will be disabled 24 hours prior to any event.

Advance registration: ICF (any chapter) members $10; non-members $20

At the door: $15 ICF members; $25 non-members

For questions only: Contact Terry Yoffe, ICF-NYC vice-president, at Terry@TRYcoaching.com.



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February 17, 2010  •  2pm ET, Please note the corrected time!

You're invited to join an interactive, fun and practical teleclass that will give you new coaching tools and insights for you and for your clients.

In this free teleclass, you'll learn:

• What's the difference between Great Work and Good Work - and whether you should care or not
• How to find the sweet spot between the work you want to do and the work you feel you have to do
• Two words that will significantly increase the power of your coaching questions
• How to say No when it's not really cool to say No

This call will be useful for anyone who'd like to do less busywork and more of the work that matters. (You don't have to be a coach to get a bunch out of the call.)

We'll be using a new technology that allows us to do small group breakouts on the phone - so this won't be the usual one-hour monologue during which you catch up on your email.

Cost:  Free
Register here.


Paid Advertisement February 9 - March 16, 2010  •  Six 90 minute teleclasses, 2-3:30 pm ET

Presenter:  Jane Moran, Executive Coach and Sr. Consultant Results Coaching Systems

Quiet Leadership is based on the book Quiet Leadership, by David Rock and is Results Coaching System's high-impact, skill-based training for those who wish to begin to embed brain-based coaching skills for use in coaching conversations, meetings, and leadership activities. The coaching model at the core of this program was developed from studying thousands of conversations, and honing in on the specific skills and techniques that have the most productive impact. It is informed by contemporary neuroscience and adult learning theory, and is taught in the engaging high-impact learning format that is the trademark of Results trainings. Past participants have found that being trained in the Quiet Leadership course has helped them:

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Paid Advertisement February 12 - July 18, 2010

Format:  Sixty coach specific training hours delivered in a combination of face to face workshop and teleclasses
Location:  New York City

This fast track training program will enable you to accumulate the training hours required to apply for the ICF Associate Certified Credential in under six months and gain the Results Certificate of Advanced Coaching Skills. The course is made up of 3 modules: the first module delivered over the first 12 weeks will give you everything you need to start coaching using our unique coaching methodology. The second module will have you continuing to develop and strengthen your ability to coach in the following client goals areas - business, leadership, money and finance, career and creative. The final part of the program is designed to strengthen your intuition through understanding what intuition is, connecting to it and applying it to coaching sessions with clients.

The models at the core of the program draw on the hard science of how the brain works and provide practical, useful tools for improving other people's thinking and therefore, their performance.

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Paid Advertisement March 5, 12 and 19  •  6:30-9:30 pm ET

Format:  Three 3-hour workshop intensives
Location:  Upper West Side—The New Seminary Center, 2672 Broadway at W 102nd St. (Subway at 103rd St.)
Presenters:  Katherine Brewster (yoga and body-mind-spirit teacher) and Larry Hurst (lifestyle & relationship coach and focusing teacher), joint creators of the 'Ready to Fly' developmental program.

Are you ready to venture into uncharted territory and bring your hidden gifts and talents to light? Ready to sharpen your perceptions as a coach, student, teacher, member of society? 'Ready to Fly' is a unique experiential journey of self-discovery, designed specifically to awaken you to your true potential by bringing you to a constant state of soul-consciousness, which can transform all parts of your life. The 'Ready to Fly' program, now entering its fourth year, is subtly powerful. It uses tried and trusted techniques, easy to assimilate, that can be put to immediate effect. The secret lies in their blending. You will learn to incorporate gentle yoga and qigong based exercises with deep empathic listening, self-inquiry and expression. Your physical, mental and emotional senses will learn to interact synergistically, creating a heightened degree of body-centered awareness. Session by session—and moreover between times—you will gain an entirely fresh, deepened sense of belonging to self and community. Are you 'Ready to Fly'?

Cost:  $240 if booked by February 12; thereafter $270.
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