Volume 9 Issue 9 – September, 2010

In This Issue:

Tomorrow's Life Coach (TLC) is a monthly online journal from the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) that nourishes the intellect, intuition and inspiration of the personal and business coaching community.



Pat's Ponderings – Coaching To Life’s Stages
by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC

This past year, my first grandchild was born to my eldest daughter. What a joy to be a grandfather to such a wonderful little person, and to be in a different role as ‘grandpa” to my daughter and her husband. My wife, who has children from a previous marriage already has two grandkids, so she had a head start. But despite that joyful life stage of watching our children raise and parent their children I am struck by a common stage of life that has both joys and challenges (don’t they all?) that coaching support could be a big help for.

My daughter is a finance department manager at a major retail store and her husband is assistant manager of a tire store. Between them they make good money. But they are feeling the change in lifestyle, money crunch, and the energy drain that goes with a new child. Even though they love the new little person, the demand of time, money and freedom all cause this new life stage to be a challenge.

I remember when my children were born in 1977 and 1979; daycare was a pretty new phenomenon. Yes women’s rights efforts made big inroads in women’s ability to work, but the truth is for most families, BOTH PARENTS MUST WORK.

This is one of the biggest change in the last several decades…..so distance coaching for parents could be an added benefit and service to offer new parents. And it could be at an affordable price if you were to use a program like LIFEOPTIONS life coach platform. A coach could have several clients paying a small sum per month with an agreement to have email exchanges, resource recommendations and maybe even individual or group telephone coaching.

I believe this could be a great resource for parents and a new niche for coaches. What do you think? If you coach parents or families in various life stages, let us know. Write back to lifestagecoaching@lifeoptions.com

Warm regards,

Pat

Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
Chief Energizing Officer, ILCT
Executive Vice President, Life Options
Department Chair, Professional Coaching, International University of Professional Studies
Author: Becoming a Professional Life Coach, Therapist as Life Coach, Total Life Coaching, Law and Ethics in Coaching
Recipient of Global Visionary Fellowship for Non Profit www.CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org
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News

New Course Offering: The Coach Approach for EAPs & Management Professionals

The Institute for Life Coach Training is pleased to announce the Fall session of The Coach Approach for EAPs & Management Professionals (formerly EACS).

ILCT's Coach Approach for EAPs & Management Professionals course is designed for EA, HR, managers and workplace professionals who are committed to enhancing their skills and fully utilizing their talents to inspire organizational excellence and the optimal potential of their employees.  EACC PDHs have been applied for and this course is approved for 20 hours toward certification from the International Coach Federation.

How Coaching Enhances the Value of the Organization

  • Advances the organization's image by demonstrating the employer's commitment to the personal and professional well-being of its employees and exemplifying a business climate of continuous learning.
  • Workplace Professionals enhance their skills by applying coaching to their skillsets.
  • The coaching model offers a compelling benefit and appealing process for employee development when used by manager, human resources and EAPs.
  • Coaching increases the employee’s ability to clarify goals, achieve personal accountability & follow through to reach successful outcomes.

The Coach Approach for EAPs & Management Professionals course focuses on the following components:

  • Introduction to Coaching – The history, definitions, and distinctions of professional coaching.
  • Coaching Basics – The Coaching alliance and model, powerful questions and purposeful inquiry, moving into action, leveraging EA skills and standards.
  • The Coaches Tool Box – skills and techniques for empowering & forwarding action, accountability & autonomy and enhancing successful outcomes.
  • Peer Coaching Groups – each class will be broken up into smaller groups which will meet weekly to practice the skills learned.

Next Course Begins October 19th

Our October 19th class is a teleclass which will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for one hour, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EST. 

Instructor: Diana Kilinski, CEAP
Diana has been working nationally since 1992 as an employee assistance management consultant and coach for Working Solutions, which later became United Behavioral Health EAP. Diana works with people at every level of employment and management on the difficult personal and professional issues that face employees and organizations. Her consultation services also include the development of company policies on drug free workplace, workplace violence and trauma, and organization change.
Diana holds advanced certifications from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation in Critical Incident Stress Management, Preventing Workplace Violence, and Terrorism Response. She has written a manual and multiple articles on workplace violence, trauma, and grief. Diana also provides training advisement for those who are candidates for Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) standing.



New Coaching Service: Check out LifeOptions new program called SleepCoach at www.SleepCoach.net. If you are interested in becoming a sleep coach you can learn more in LifeOptions Practice Hub at practitioners.lifeoptions.com.


LifeOptions Professional Services

Want to connect with other coaches and counselors, and apply for service as a provider in our coaching and counseling networks?

Join our online Practice Hub community. Once you click on this link [LifeOptions Practice Hub] and arrive at our site you'll want to select "Create Account". Upon registering you will then be able to use your email address and the secure password you created to sign in. Registration is secure, free and only takes a minute or two. Join this rapidly growing community of fellow practitioners and share your ideas, try your hand at blogging, explore training opportunities and become a provider.

We look forward to seeing you in our community!

Lyle Labardee
LifeOptions Professional Services



Invitation for Tomorrow’s Life Coach Submissions

Have an article or a book recommendation you’d like to share? We’d like to invite all ILCT faculty and students to submit their articles and recommendations to Tomorrow’s Life Coach. Please keep in mind that all contributions that are under consideration to be published will be edited to meet our specifications. We welcome your submissions and will include proper attribution. Please send submissions to jane.adams@lifeoptions.com.


Feature

What’s New At ILCT?

It’s been an exciting and busy summer at ILCT, with many exciting new developments, many of which are based on input we’ve received from our students.

Coach Specialist Programs
Much like ILCT’s 80-hour Certified Life Coach program, which has been available for many years, ILCT has been developing programs which will allow students to focus their training in areas they are passionate about and receive recognition for their effort.  After completing the Foundations course, students who are interested in earning such a certificate will need to take an additional 40 hours of suggested courses in their area of specialization, at least one of which must be a practicum level course.

The Wellness Coach Specialist certificate program is the first one to be unveiled so, in addition to our great Body-Mind and Wellness Inventory courses, we’re adding a number of new wellness courses, including Introduction to Wellness, Beyond Recovery, and a Motivational Interviewing course.

You will receive an email from your Student Services team in the next week or so, detailing the requirements for this program, and in the coming months, additional specialist certificate tracks such as Non-Profit, Relationship, and Career Coaching will also be announced.

Mentor Coaching Course
For our students who are preparing to obtain ACC credential through the ICF’s portfolio approach, or who want to take their coaching to a higher level, ILCT will soon offer Mentor Coaching, a 10-hour course which includes 7 hours of group mentoring and 3 hours of individual coaching. 

Fall Course Schedule Available
Aside from adding the above courses, a course for EAP and Business Professionals, and the Foundational Training for Christian Coaches, most of our elective and required courses are being held during the next few months so if you’re ready to take the next step in your coach training, visit our website. 

Ellen Neiley Ritter, Ph.D.
Director of Student Development
ellen@lifecoachtraining.com
888.267.1206



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What Pat Recommends

The Art & Science of Coaching Parents by EdD. NCC Caron B Goode

A New York Times article called the profession of parent coaching “the newest self-help approach for over stretched parents. Until now, there has been no book available for those caring individuals who want to help parents and their children by specializing in the field of parent coaching in addition to establishing a lucrative home-based business. At approximately 200 pages, the book is organized into three parts with a total of twenty chapters. It is backed by the latest professional and educational research into coaching techniques, packed with quotes from the country’s leading parent coaches, supported with case studies, and supplemented with business and information forms, sidebars, and sample press releases and brochures.

 

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