In the northern hemisphere, spring is melting snow and growing leaf and flower buds. A sense of new life is palpable. In years past, human lives followed seasonal patterns closely. Winter was a time for going inside - a time for rest and reflection. British author Katherine May writes about this in her book, Wintering. Wintering is a time in life when we stop and embrace the quiet stillness and soothe our minds and hearts.
It seems that we are coming out of a very long pandemic winter, we have a sense that a new time is encroaching - a time for growth.
Having spent the past year in survival and adaptation to new and difficult circumstances, many of us rightfully so may not have had the capacity to contemplate growth. Yet, like wintering, growth serves a purpose for us. It allows us to develop and learn, to reach past our comfort zones.
As this capacity for growth starts to expand, the timing could not be better for our two upcoming webinars, which will support this transition in the seasons and ourselves.
On April 8, we are so happy to welcome back Dorie Clark for another webinar on “Becoming Recognized for Your Coaching Expertise.” Dorie - a Harvard Business Review author and Duke University executive education professor - will share practical strategies to help you build a following around your ideas and ensure you're viewed as an expert, not a commodity.
Then on April 22nd, we have Heidi Hanna, Ph.D., who is an expert on how to become more resilient to stress. Everyone has stress on their brains (and bodies) these days, and as a coach, it’s critical to how to facilitate the use of stress in ways that are helpful instead of harmful. Neuroscience research demonstrates that our brain and nervous system can adapt in both positive and negative ways to stress. It’s not the stress itself that causes the problem but our response that impacts our lives.
Wishing you a month of renewal and growth, The IOC Team
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In this highly interactive discussion, Rick Simmons, CEO, the telos institute, will provide coaches the framework to work with clients and leaders to help them realize the incredible potential of these uncertain times. At Telos, we use the term “liminal space” to define periods of discontinuity that create an openness to change, much like the environment many of us find ourselves in today. Utilizing real-life examples of when liminal space was best managed for transformative results, the discussion will highlight effective methods to facilitate the journey to successfully capture the power of liminality.
March and April Featured Book: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The IOC Invites you to join our new Book Club, which will meet once a month on the first Monday of every month. We will spend two meetings per book, one for a review of the major themes and the other for specialized topic dives related to your coaching practice.
You're great at what you do - and now it's time to ensure even more people recognize it. Dorie Clark - Harvard Business Review author and Duke University executive education professor - will share practical strategies to help you build a following around your ideas and ensure you're viewed as an expert, not a commodity.
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Join Jeff Hull and other IOC Fellows to discuss the Becoming Recognized for your Coaching Expertise webinar from Dorie Clark. We will be discussing key themes as they apply to our coaching practices.
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Everyone has stress on their brains (and bodies) these days, and as a coach it’s critical that you understand how to facilitate the use of stress in ways that are helpful instead of harmful. Neuroscience research demonstrates that our brain and nervous system can adapt in both positive and negative ways to stress. It’s not the stress itself that causes the problem but our response that impacts our lives.
Carol Kauffman and Cynthia Soledad, co-lead of Egon Zehnder’s global DEI Practice will discuss how the landscape has changed for corporate DEI work in the past year, how coaches and DEI practitioners can help unlock growth in inclusive leadership skill, and how this connects to organizational development in DEI.
COACH A is a global coaching firm that specializes in promoting systemic growth by “creating leaders that drive change in their organizations".
Using evidence-based data in cooperation with the Coaching Research Institute (CRI), COACH A applies its systemic coaching approach worldwide. With offices in New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Tokyo, COACH A offers coaching services in English, Japanese, Chinese and Thai.
Our clients include not only business organizations, but medical organizations and government and municipal sectors as well, in which we also train new coaches who will spread the benefits of coaching around them.
coachAcademia, our ICF Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP), has been active since 1997, training more than 15,000 coaches.
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