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Greetings!
 Who said summer is quiet? Looking below there is a hype
of activity over the next couple of months. Be sure
not to miss out on inputting your ideas into our coaching
standards.
Soon we will be starting our feature on Coaching Company
of the month. If you want to feature your coaching practice
email me for more information.
Enjoy.
Jaime Simpson
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70 year old principle of coaching |
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by
Charlie Lang
As an executive coach I consider it very important
to continuously learn more about the various fields
that are related to my work. One of these areas
is certainly psychology. Though I'm not aiming
to become a therapist for CEO's, I enjoy reading
psychology related literature.
Recently I finished reading "Modern Man in Search
of a Soul" by the great Carl Gustav Jung, the
father of Analytical Psychology. This book was
published in 1933 (!) when people only would have
thought of a carriage when hearing the word 'coach'.
I was quite amazed when I read a section (page
239ff) that clearly described an important coaching
principle:
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| Developing
Talent & High Performance |
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by
Trish Meecham
Given the ongoing and increasing competition
for talent, organizations and senior executives
are more focused than ever on attracting, retaining,
developing and engaging the highest levels of
human capital.
The challenge is considerable. With the combination
of two very real forces - increased demand for
skilled employees, coupled with tighter labor
markets and shrinking pools of talent - organizations
need to find better approaches to achieve sustainable
competitive advantage through their people.
Coaching is one such approach, designed to accelerate
an individual and/or teams' performance and ultimately
impact business results.
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| Sustaining
Change, Effortlessly: Part One |
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by
Jon Gan of Habit Shift
The joy. The pain. The anticipation and the regret.
The attachment and the freedom. Change is all
of these and more. Ironically, even though it
is required for survival, most of us haven't found
cultivating our change-ability an easy task. We
struggle with the voice of "If only." "If only
the world would slow down. If only other people
weren't so-what-human! Then I could manage all
the changes."
Don't feel like the odd one out. Join all the
rest of us who are struggling with change. Good
and bad. Too much or too little. Isn't what we
long for is balance? "Sure, I like change. I want
change. But, I want it where I want it, when I
want it, where I want it, in the way I want it."
Right. When does that happen?
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| Announcements |
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Do You Agree with Our Coaching Standards?
By Angela Spaxman, Immediate Past President
After months of development
with contributions from dozens of HKCC members,
I'm very pleased to present the latest drafts
of the HKCC
Coaching Standards and the Proposed
Complaints Handling Process. Do you
live up to these Standards in your coaching
practice? Do they describe what you think
is the best of coaching? Would this Complaints
Handling Process support you as a coach
and support HKCC as a community?
These Standards are labelled
'Draft' because we are open to your input.
We are keen to build a consensus among our
broad range of members to create Standards
that truly represent us and policies that
support us. Please send me your comments,
concerns and suggestions so that we can
build on your perspective. We will finalize
the Standards on September 15, 2005 and
present them to the public in October. |
Congratulations to our Lucky Winners!
By Veronica Lee, VP Training
I’m thrilled to announce
the prize winners of the Gem Lucky Draw
that was held impromptu at 7:45 in the morning
on Monday, 18 July 2005. The prize donated
by the Gem Maker of the month Joanna
Hsu at the end of the Gem Session was
an unexpected windfall (yeah!), which is
called ‘Personalized Development Programs
(PDP)’. The program focuses on improving
the performance of individuals through the
3 stages, Discovery, Practice, and Growth.
Everyone who came was included
in the draw though some had to leave early.
The evening was filled with real life stories
and insights as well as last minute surprise
gifts to our participants! Don’t you
just love to join our next Gem Session to
see what happens then?
Click
here for more information about Personalized
Development Programs by Success By Design.
Joanna Hsu can be reached at (852) 9860-1920
and contact Veronica Lee at (852) 2647-8703
for the next Gem Session details. |
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| Events
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Connecting with my Pre Teen / Teen 4 week group series
Learn the secret of using Life Coaching
Skills to strengthen your family relationships
Being a parent is a lifelong
commitment. As our children change and grow,
parents also need to evolve with them. While
the primary relationship remains the same,
the role needs to change from the parent
as manager approach to the parent as coach
approach.
Jaime
Simpson, Parent and Teen Coach will
introduce you to a 7 step model to prepare
you for the teenager years or to connect
with your teen.
Next series: 22nd August
05 check out www.teensuccess.com.hk for more information
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 Do you have issues with employee engagement and retention?
Or do you simply need more business?
Progress-U’s FREE
events can give you clues:
August 10: Free Stop Selling!
Briefing – details
August 11: Free First-Class Leadership Briefing
– details
August 23: Free Book Launch Party with wine
and canapés – details
September 01: Free Coaching for Managers
Briefing – details
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Coach Manager Workshop
A 2-day workshop for experienced managers
who want to motivate, empower and development
their staff through powerful coaching.
Program designed, facilitated
and coached by Angela Spaxman
Sept 15-16, 2005 in Causeway
Bay.
At the free briefing on
Sept 1, we'll practice a simple coaching
model to give you a taste of the power of
coaching.
Details here www.spaxman.com.hk/CMW.html
To subscribe to Angela's
new monthly e-newsletter on coaching for
managers, please send a blank email to subscribe-Coach-Manager@progressu.com
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Message
from the President |
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HKCC is getting more in touch and closer to our
local community.
Coaching is touching all walks of lives in Hong
Kong. Carol Gibb was interviewed by SCMP on 8th
Jun about Life Coaching. Bonnie Chan was featured
in the Salvation Army's Magazine, "Army
Scene", about how Coaching could be used in
enhancing Social Work in a youth entrepreneur
project.
Cheers,
Bonnie
Chan
President of HKCC
UPCOMING HKCC EVENTS
Appointment of New Executive Committee
Member
SK Shum, a Relationship Coach was appointed as
the VP, R&D in June. He will research and develop
long term prospect for the Community.
There will be no Focus Meeting in Aug.
PD Meeting in September
The movie you've been waiting to see! For our
September meeting, we'll show the movie What
the Bleep Do We Know!? that has been bending
the minds of coaches around the globe. Join us
for the movie and dinner and discussions afterwards.
Where: DD
Centre
When: September 28, 6:30 pm
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