Message from the President
Dear HKICC Friends,
Since its foundation in 2002, I have been an active member of HKICC and served in different roles including VP Corporate Coaching, Executive VP and now as President.
People, especially my colleagues, often ask me why I invest so much time and effort in this organization? What is the benefit I reap from this? Is it really worth it?
Keep reading
Charlie Lang
President, HKICC
president@coachinghk.org
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IAC Certification Group Forming Now
TOP 10 Signs You Could Use an Executive Coach
The Spiritual Dimension of Coaching
Employee Coaching vs. Performance Training
Meet our Coach-Members: Benoit Foucher
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| IAC Certification Group Forming Now |
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Have you already completed a coach training course?
Do you have at least 50 hours of coaching experience?
Do you want to get certified by IAC?
Carole Lewis and Angela Spaxman are looking to form a group committed to becoming IAC certified. The group will meet over lunch every week or every second week to:
- Discuss IAC certification
- Enhance their coaching skills
- Support each other in achieving the requirements of certification
- Take part in taped coaching practice sessions
- Give each other constructive feedback on their coaching according to the IAC masteries.
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| TOP 10 Signs You Could Use an Executive Coach |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis for HKICC from http://www.effectiveexecutivecoaching.com/top-10-signs.html
10. Your team or corporate environment is experiencing interpersonal conflict
9. Sudden/unexplained "shift" or change in a crucial business indicator of success, specific to a particular industry
8. Decreased emphasis on preserving human capital
7. Oversimplification of strategy
6. Isolation and withdrawal
5. Increase in turnover, absenteeism and tardiness
4. Performance quotas missed
3. Complacency among managers (the "Fine Syndrome")
2. Insanity Defined: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
1. Topping the list of signs: You say you don't need one!
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| The Spiritual Dimension of Coaching |
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This article, originally published in Choice Magazine (www.choice-online.com), appears here with the kind permission of Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and CEO, Institute for Life Coach Training http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/index.shtml
The spiritual dimension of the human experience is attracting much interest in coaching and in psychotherapy today. Many wonder how the two approaches can work together. I draw upon my own experience in psychology and philosophy to provide some context for the practicing life coach and executive coach.
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| Employee Coaching vs. Performance Training |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis for HKICC from an article by Samaria Jones
Everyone's heard the old saying, "It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease." In a fast-paced work environment, where the focus is on getting a product out the door, or resolving customer issues, the same attitude is usually taken about coaching. Coaching is often viewed as necessary only when employee performance is unbearably poor, or discouraged employees begin leaving the company. For entrepreneurs, who often have smaller staffs and budgets, coaching might also seem like an unnecessary expense.
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| Meet our Coach-Members: Benoit Foucher |
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Career and Personal Coach, Stress Management
What led you into coaching?
I started to coach for many reasons, most importantly: my desire to help people find their own values and inner confidence; my desire that more and more people live more passionately and fulfilled; and my frustration not to have helped people as well as I thought they needed when I was a tennis coach.
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Dear Readers,
Whether you're a new or experienced coach ready to take the certification step, an executive or manager facing a staff performance slump, or a spiritual coach wondering how to broach the subject of a higher power with a client, look no further! There is a little something for everyone this month. I welcome your suggestions for content as well as nominations for featured member profiles.
Stay connected!
Michelle Gabbe
Editor, HKICC
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NEW Articles from the HKICC coach-authored South China Morning Post 'Signposts' article series
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