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Message
from the
President
Dear Friends of HKICC,
I feel very honored that the members of
the Hong Kong International Coaching
Community expressed their trust in me to lead
the largest association of coaches in Hong
Kong as their next President.
This is not a small responsibility and I
look forward to working with an excellent
Executive Committee to bring HKICC closer to
our vision of 1,000 * 1,000, i.e. 1,000
members and a 1 million HKD budget by the
end of 2009.
When I asked our members what they would
expect from me if I was elected President, I
kept hearing that HKICC should develop into the professional body for coaches in
Hong Kong.
Keep
reading
Charlie Lang
President, HKICC
president@coachinghk.org
| TOP 10 Tips: Finding the Right Coach |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis
from: www.njcoaches.org
1. Interview the coach
Most professional coaches offer a
complimentary coaching session or
consultation. Use this time, or your
preliminary contact with them, to ask
questions. Consider what answers are the
most important to you. Some questions will
come up from the other tips, but a good
place to start is:
What brought you into the profession
of coaching?
How long have you been a coach?
How many clients have you had?
Do you have a coach yourself (most coaches
do)?
What is your coaching specialty?
2. The “click”
The importance of being able to
"click" with the coach outweighs
almost everything else. If you do not get
along with the coach, you will not be able to
work collaboratively. If you don’t
click with that particular coach during the
complimentary coaching session or
consultation, ask her/him to give you the
name of other coaches you could contact. Be
prepared to keep looking until you find the
coach that is the best fit for you.
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By Michelle Gabbe
CHANGE was the theme of HKICC's annual
general meeting (AGM), which was held on
Thursday evening, 26th April. Kicking off the
evening was a 90-minute interactive
presentation of the 6 Conditions to Change by
certified Spiral Dynamics Integral
Practitioners Ivy Ning and Lilian Wang. Being
asked to apply the 6-conditions process to an
issue requiring change in their own lives was
a treat for the audience of mostly coaches,
many of whom spend so much of their time
facilitating the development of everyone but
themselves.
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By Carole Lewis
New Coaching Standards Logos!
The new coaching standards logos for
HKICC members are now available for you to
copy into your coaching profiles. They may
be added to your website or written
materials to add credibility and proof of
your integrity as a coach. But first, please
take some time to ensure that you truly abide
by the standards required of HKICC coaches.
All coaches who are listed in the HKICC
Coaching Directory are required to abide by
these standards.
What are HKICC’s coaching
standards?
HKICC’s coaching standards
represent our common beliefs about coaching
and align us as professionals across a wide
range of coaching specialties.
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| Meet our Members: NEW Executive Vice President, Anita Moorjani |
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Life Coach, MPNLP (ANLP), C.Hyp (ABH)
How long have you been involved
with HKICC?
Since 2002. I am one of its founding
members.
Who do you coach?
Just about anyone and everyone, as long as
they want to be coached. I have an affinity
for people who are in a “stuck”
state, and feel that they have tried
everything, but nothing has worked. I know
how they feel, because I’ve been there!
And I know first hand that it’s never too late to
make transformational life changes.
I also conduct workshops and particularly
enjoy motivating large groups of people. I
love the energy that’s created in a
group setting.
Tell us something unique about
your coaching style.
I like to call myself a
“Transformational Coach”. My
desire is to motivate and empower people
from the inside out. I work on the premise
that our inner world is our primary reality,
and if our internal state is healthy and
strong, then our external world will align
itself and fall into place as a
result.
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Hello Coaches!
I’ll start by thanking Immediate
Past Editor Lorraine Lee for her generous
contribution to the newsletter, and for
gifting me with a gentle handover of a
well-oiled machine. Let’s wish her the
very best as she dons yet a new HKICC hat as
VP- Membership. Those of you who missed the
AGM can learn all about your new leaders in
this issue, including a profile of new
Executive VP Anita Moorjani.
“Oh, I see you’re right back
in your comfort zone!” was what my own
mentor coach wisely remarked when I told her
I’d be taking up the HKICC newsletter
editor role. Huh. I had expected her to
applaud my initiative in joining a community
of peers in a profession that is so new to
me, but once again she reflected on what a
limited self-view I sometimes hold. Ok, so I
did spend the last 7 years managing the
editorial output of a major publisher, but
that didn’t necessarily make me
‘qualified’ to put together this
newsletter for coaches. Or did it?
How might your negative self-talk be limiting
your own professional development?
Over the coming months, I hope to enrich
the content of this e-monthly with more
original articles and new recurring features.
Please let me know how I’m doing! I
look forward to hearing from you with
feedback as well as content suggestions.
Happy reading,
Michelle Gabbe
Editor,
HKICC
Please
note: if you wish to submit any
article or advertisement (ad) over 100 words,
please
remember to send our Editor a short introductory
text (below 100 words) together with article or
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document. Photos need to be in JPG format.
Deadline for submissions is 5:30pm on the 3rd of
each month. Please note that the editorial team
very much appreciates early submissions
rather than
those last minute ones! Please note that since
August 2006 and for members only, we offer one
free ad per issue, thereafter we charge
HK$250 per
ad per issue. For non-members, there will be a
charge of HK$600 per ad per issue. For more
details
and conditions, please contact our Editor at editor@coaching
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Articles written by HKICC
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and published in South China Morning Post.
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