Message from the President
Dear HKICC Friends,
Do you trust in intuition? Or do you rather prefer to analyze things and trust only the facts?
This month's newsletter takes intuition into its focus. Closely related to intuition seems the question of what is reality or the 'truth'.
Let me give you a very simple example that shows that the question of truth is actually very tricky.
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Charlie Lang, President, HKICC
president@coachinghk.org
| The Top 10 Ways To Get Back In Flow |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis for HKICC from: http://topten.org/public/BC/BC570.html
You realize you have fallen out of Flow! Your life is no longer moving along easily. You recognize the Top 10 Signs That You Are NOT In Flow. Now, what do you do about it? How do you get back in?
1. Relax.
2. Center yourself.
3. Stop worrying and regain trust in the Universe.
4. Increase your energy level.
5. Stop resisting.
6. Think about the message in the repeating patterns.
7. Get in touch with what you really need.
8. Make your heart happy.
9. Think about what you want.
10. Work with a coach (or other professional) to identify better goals and actions.
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| Developing Intuition |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis for HKICC from:
http://www.theharbinger.org/xvii/981201/robinson.html
[Editor's note: This is the second installment of a 2-part series suggesting ways to develop intuitive skills. The first, Intuition in Business, presenting insights into the nature and uses of intuition, was published in the last issue.]
by Lynn B. Robinson
Using your intuition is about using more of your brain's potential, as discussed extensively in the first article of this series. It is also about using more of your body and spirit. Proof of intuition as brain power is abundant, as a total body function is growing, and as spiritual functioning is more tenuous but being successfully subjected to increasingly rigorous research.
As you read, you'll find a number of suggestions to take you beyond whatever level of intuition you now recognize. None of the data upholding the veracity of intuition as developmentally possible will be presented here. Your own experience with intuition is far more convincing than the reams of research available.
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| Six Ways to Strengthen Your Intuition |
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Adapted by Carole Lewis for HKICC from:
http://www.steve-olson.com/6-ways-to-sharpen-your-intuition/
Practical Intuition
Your intuition is a shortcut to productivity, insight, knowledge, innovation, and decision-making. So how do you harness your intuition?
You Have The Ability To Solve Problems Instantly
Have you ever looked at a problem and known the root cause and the solution - instantly - without research? You've been taught to distrust that inner voice, right? So you test your intuition with empirical trial and your intuition is usually right, isn't it?
You have the ability to solve problems instantly if you trust yourself. We all do. So how do we harness the power of our inner creator - the voice that cuts through all the bullshit and tells us the truth?
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Ask Danny! Each month, our in-house expert, Danny Moorjani of PowerOne, will answer your questions, giving you the tools and information you need to take the pressure out of your everyday business operations. This will allow you to run your coaching practice more efficiently.
Danny, who is VP Finance at HKICC, has spent over two decades managing and operating businesses in the Asia Pacific region for SPHK, Davidoff and ESPRIT. He is COO of PowerOne and conducts sales & negotiation trainings around the region.
Click here to submit your questions to Danny.
This month's question:
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I want to advertise my services to a larger audience but advertising is quite expensive. I've heard there were many ways to advertise without the need to spend a lot of money. In particular using Google because you only pay when somebody buys from you. Do you have any comments or suggestions on other ways I could use? |
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Thank you for your question. One of the first things I learned when starting up a small business is to qualify whether something is an expense or investment. If you're a huge multinational, then blanket advertising is an investment. If you are a small company, then that same action would be considered an expense. The difference being that with a small company, every ad you run is done so that a potential client can find you and book your services. A large organization has already established itself within the market and is doing advertising campaigns to increase its brand awareness in the general market.
My suggestion to you would be to start looking at all advertising and marketing as an investment. This would mean tracking the effectiveness of every campaign in terms of revenue received against money spent. If you're not making a return of at least eight times what you have invested, stop that marketing activity.
In your question, you made reference to Google and their pay-per-click system. In principle this is an excellent system if you have a product that everybody who comes to your website, will buy. Google's system is designed to put your product or services right there in front of the Google searcher and then redirect them to your site. You then pay Google for everybody that they have sent to you. You pay Google regardless of whether this person, buys anything from you or not. In my opinion, this is not a logical approach to marketing a small business. What would make more sense is to pay a performance based fee to organizations or people that drive business to you.
In addition to options like Google, you may want to consider online networking organizations. In my experience, I have found that what happens online still closely follows what happens in the real world. The people who are most likely to refer business to you are other professionals related to your field of work, as well as friends.
Most organizations agree that the best place to meet a potential customer is at a trade fair, organized by the industry, for the industry. I'm assuming that you're a coach and would suggest that you seek out trade fairs in this industry that you may attend. If there are none, I would recommend that you urge your local representative body to organize one. While there is no online trade fair for the coaching industry, I would suggest joining an online community such as "ecademy" where you will be able to connect with other people in a similar industry for the primary purpose of business.
The other thing that I would recommend is leveraging on the popularity of online social networking sites, in particular, Facebook. This gives you the opportunity to connect with a huge audience that has already agreed to find out about you and what you do. |
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| Meet our Coach Members: Anna Lorant |
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Anna Lorant
Executive Coach and Life Coach
MA, MSc, ACCA
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What led you into coaching?
Many things, but probably the most powerful of them all was my first encounter with coaching. I was working as an audit manager at the time at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and juggled with the usual suspects: work, career, family, you name it. Coaching changed my perspective enormously, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, things started to fall into their places. I have walked the talk and it became 'my call'. As my professional career took off I also learned to enjoy the demanding roles of a spouse and mother. After completing my second Masters degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a number of coaching programs I realized I could do more: I could be perfectly positioned to help fellow professionals and executives to better cope and enjoy their life and career.
Read more
Contact Anna:
Tel: +852 94750364
E-mail: anna_lorant@kirchnercoaching.com
Website: www.kirchnercoaching.com |
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"Coaching in Action" training in Hong Kong (20-22 March 2009)
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Fees: HKD 9'900/pers -10% Discount for HKICC members
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The Economy Is Scary;
How You Respond Is A Choice |
Are you living in fear - fear of losing your job, your money, your home, your sense of security, your role in life? And are you afraid of feeling like a failure, worthless, inadequate, lonely...?
To help you deal with those fears, Certified Fearless Living Coach Glynis Ferguson is presenting Asia's very first Fearless LifeTM Workshop on April 24. In this one-day seminar, you'll identify the thoughts, feelings and actions that are keeping you from living the life you want. Who else do you know who might benefit? Details |
Acupuncture Results... Without the Needles!
Attend a free information session where HKICC member-coach Michelle Gabbe and partners will describe - and demonstrate - how drug-free, stimulant-free, all-natural patches can be applied to acupoints for:
- More Energy & Stamina (mental & physical)
- Detoxification / Immune System Boosting
- Relief of Physical Pain - acute or chronic (immediate results)
- Deep, Restful Sleep (even for insomnia sufferers)
- Weight Loss
- Energy Meridian Re-balancing
WHEN: Wednesday 11th Mar or Thursday 12th Mar 12; 7-9 pm
WHERE: Go Gourmet, 17 Po Yan St, Sheung Wan
Register at lifewavehk1@gmail.com or view full details here |
Parenting in Inter-Cultural Families
An idea generating workshop for couples and individuals.
24th March, 6:30 - 9:30pm in Causeway Bay |
In this 3-hour workshop you will
- Define, discuss and explore your most pressing issues with your child(ren)
- Find new ideas and try out new perspectives
- Receive parenting tips from Gudrun
- Exchange experiences, insights and advice with other participants
- Have hands-on experiences with problem-solving methods that are helpful for you
- Enjoy the process of finding out where you are a great parent
Course Leader: Gudrun Kittel-Thong, Parent Counsellor and Career Path Coach
Mobile: 9043 9914
For further information email: gkittel.thong@gmail.com or click here |
Magnet Int'l is organizing the 1st Tom Condon trip to Hong Kong
Tom has worked with the Enneagram and NLP since 1977. This three day workshop (March 27-29, 2009) is a "hands-on tool-set" training for personal change to solve problems and enhance the natural potential of different personality styles while working with the principles of change for inner peace and empowerment. Early bird available, for more course information please email info@magnetintl.com. A Free Talk would be available March 25, please register here.
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Coaching Forward
March 17, 2009
Mark it in your calendar!
This internationally recognized one day course offers a solid introduction to solution focused coaching, conversational coaching skills, and the powerful frameworks that are part of The Art and Science of Coaching (The ICF recognized coach training course coming to Hong Kong in May).
Training for over 27 years, Erickson College's 2009 HK course schedule will be taught by master coach trainer, president and founder of Erickson College, Dr. Marilyn Atkinson!
8:30am-6:30pm
$1200 - 10% discount for HKICC members
More Info: www.ericksoncoaching.hk
Contact:
Kim Leischner
Tel: (852)2916-8277
Email: info@ericksoncoaching.hk
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The Art & Science of Coaching
Hong Kong 2009
This internationally recognized, comprehensive accelerated coach training program is ideal for business leaders, managers, HR professionals and individuals who wish to rapidly reach a high level of coaching capability and certification. Taught by master coach trainer - Dr. Marilyn Atkinson. 128 hours, ICF recognized, covered in four in-person modules.
Module I - May 23-26, 2009 / September 13-16, 2009
Module II - September 17-20, 2009
Module III - November 21-24, 2009
Module IV - January 7-10, 2010
10% discount for HKICC members!
Contact:
Kim Leischner
Tel: (852)2916-8277
Website: www.ericksoncoaching.hk
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More than ever, women need to take responsibility for their financial affairs. While women have made great progress in the workplace, even the smartest can neglect their own finances...
Attend free seminar to learn:
~ How to boost your nest egg long before exiting the workforce
~ About Debt and managing Debts
~ Important issues impacting your lifestyle
~ Take control of your life and your financial future.
Presenters:
Sheila Dickinson, VP ipac financial planning
Lior Sade, Lifestyle, Divorce coach
Date: Thursday 26 March 2009.
Time: 6.45pm - 8.00pm
Venue: ipac, 51/F, The Center, 99 Queen's Road Central.
Details: lior.sade@gmail.com / http://www.ipac.com.hk/event.php?mode=view&gid=170 |
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Humour Matters
Interested to learn more about how humour may be introduced into group coaching?
Here is an opportunity to taste an approach to this.
Entitled 'Chuckle Cafe' it is a way of enabling people to be active participants rather than spectators
in a context of creating humour.
And it will be filled with fun and delightful surprises ... including all those friendly fellow laughterees you will bump into!
Do come along to 'dive in' to this new form of conversational comedy to be offered for the first time in Hong Kong at the friendly Fringe Club on 23 March 2009.
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Dear Readers,
Many of us say we are aware of our intuition. How many of us have the courage to act on it? When we step into our intuition, we learn to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. Acting on our intuition relies on faith - faith that we will do what we need to, that we can count on ourselves.
As coaches, we of course practise accessing our intuition to take our clients to a deeper level of understanding of themselves. Listening between the words, hearing the hints when they try to cover up with complaining or blaming, pretending they are okay when they are not, hearing them rush their words - our intuition can pick up on these little clues that something is being touched upon. And, when our client hits something core, then is the time to sit in the silence - to be with it, to step back and allow them to experience that moment and feeling. Magic!
Now I'm wondering - is my intuition telling me that you no longer have an interest in the Book Lovers Column? Since taking up this post last May, I have yet to receive a contribution. This newsletter is for you - so do let us know how we can serve you and what you want to see.
Glynis Ferguson
Editor
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENT
Brain Science for Coaches and Leaders. Monday, March 16.
Coaching in Tough Times with the Ontological Coaching methodology. Tuesday, March 17. Be stimulated in tough times by understanding the imperative to become a new observer. Using Coaching strategies for living in a better Way of Being is a key to this process.
Power Tools for More Effective Coaching. Wednesday April 15. Learn to discover your strengths, enhance your communication skills, and reduce conflicts, using the DISC Profiling System. |
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