On behalf of the HKICC Executive Committee, we would love to hear from our members via contributions of articles, or a simple sharing of your experiences, for this newsletter. In an effort to more inclusively serve and broaden our readership, we are particularly interested in contributions pertaining to personal coaching, family coaching, teen and youth coaching, relationship coaching, cultural coaching, health and well-being coaching, spiritual coaching… and more!  We look forward to sharing your ideas and stories.

With Great Anticipation,

Anita Moorjani
Executive VP, International Affairs
Executive-VP@coachinghk.org

Article adapted by Carole Lewis from:
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Leesa_Barnes

This month’s newsletter focus is on group coaching, so read on to learn 5 ways to create a group coaching program that sizzles and helps you to grow your coaching business.

1. Focus on your client’s PAIN points
2. Design a course OUTLINE
3. Decide on a DELIVERY method
4. Determine program length and DURATION
5. Make your program INTERACTIVE

Adapted by Carole Lewis from
http://www.coaching-life.co.uk/articles/group-lifecoaching.html

Group Life Coaching
Ask people about the dynamics of life coaching and the likely response is that it is a one-to-one activity performed between an individual wishing to address an issue and a coach, either in person or over the telephone. The model is established and it works for most personal issues where the individual alone can make a change.

Group life coaching, however, is growing rapidly in popularity, particularly within the business community. Many performance issues within teams emanate from a fundamental disconnect with either the team or the perceptions of groups of individuals within it.

Part 1 of this 2-part extended article adaptation on how life-coaching clients create and sustain long-term fulfillment by discovering life purpose appears with the kind permission of Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and CEO, Institute for Life Coach Training http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/index.shtml

Since we started using the phrase “Inside Out,” it has become much more common in the personal and professional development arena. But the concept remains valid, if not unique. This work in the human arena demands that the coach have experience in learning, growing, and living from the Inside Out. As a rule, people are taught instead to live from the Outside In. They are not taught how to examine their own lives through the lens of fulfillment.

Growing up, we’re taught how to fit in, be a good boy or girl, fulfill our parents’ expectations, and make choices that create the fewest waves. In our twenties, we get busy building a career, and sometimes those choices, too, are made to fulfill other people’s purpose for us rather than our purpose for ourselves. In our thirties, most of us continue in career building and often in family building, and we’re often too busy with both of these to take time to ask, “Am I fulfilled? Am I on the right path?” 

Harrison Assessments Expert Certificate, MA Cantab, ACPMM 21

What led you to coaching?
It feels as if I came to coaching entirely by accident, but actually it’s part of a lifelong pattern of helping and teaching others with a self-empowering style. I’d been interested in psychology and counseling for some years, but given the years of study required to get certified it stayed a distant dream, and instead I was getting on with my career as it was. When suddenly one day people started asking me to ‘coach’ them – a word I was only vaguely familiar with at the time – I began to quickly seek out skills to equip me to support them. 

Who do you coach?
I use coaching skills in pretty much all I do – in management and in business development especially, and even with my kids at home – but I only take on retained coaching clients when they take the initiative. Typically my paying clients are senior executives and business leaders, who want to improve their business results or want to transform their quality of life by changing their occupation.