Volume 9 Issue 12 – December, 2010

In This Issue:

• Pat's Ponderings – Training Coaches in Beijing by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
• Monthly
  • Free Teleconference – Coaching Credentialing – December 8
• News
  • Register before December 15th and receive $25 off all courses!
  • ILCT Credential and Certification Programs Expand
  • New Coaching Service Invitation
  • LifeOptions Professional Services Invitation
  • Invitation for Newsletter Submissions
• Feature
  • Dealing with The Holiday Rush: The life coaching approach by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
• Upcoming Classes at ILCT
• What Pat Recommends
  • Jack's Notebook: A business novel about creative problem solving by Gregg Fraley

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 – Training Coaches in Beijing by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC

I recently returned from 10 days in Beijing (6 straight days of training) with Dr. Scott Hinkle of NBCC in Greensboro NC. We co-trained a group of 40 Chinese career counselors who work in the universities and some private management consultants as well.

The trip was sponsored by Beisen Company in Beijing and was the first international training for the Board Certified Coach credential now available at CCE-Global.org/coaching. Since this was mostly a training-focused visit, I only had two days to tour nearby so I chose to see the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Ming Tombs, and the Emperors garden. Beijing is one of the busiest (and most polluted) cities in the world, but the students we trained were very intelligent professionals. With the help of an interpreter the whole training, the students revealed a true grasp of coaching and how it can be of service in this growing (yes still growing) city and the rest of China as well.

Remember, only a few years ago everyone wore the “people’s clothes” of Chairman Mao era, and only recently were people start their own business. There are 81 universities in Beijing alone, with over 2 million students, so they are really focusing on career coaching students and job coaching employed professionals for advancement or career enhancement; very new concepts in China.

I also met with EAP Beijing, as Lyle Labardee, CEO of LifeOptions, met representatives at the EAPA conference in Orlando recently. They took me to a very nice restaurant for dinner and discussed ways for LO and EAP Beijing to collaborate on coach training in China. We are in discussions at the present.

China is a real force in the world economy, but it’s also a country becoming more aware of the human side of the formula. As they increase that awareness, there is also much needed talk and some real plans for ‘greening’ some of the manufacturing. This means creating regulations and guidelines that don’t exist now which could take quite some time to put into action.

China is a big country with 1.3 BILLION inhabitants in a landmass slightly smaller than the US! But as I found in all my travels, the people are great. I think Americans can learn from their value on career coaching and start such programs for our students and workers here.

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

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ILCT Credential and Certification Programs Expand

Aside from offering its 130 hour Accredited Coach Training Program, leading to International Coach Federation credentialing, ILCT recently announced that it is also the first coach training school approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) to offer coach training to those who are interested in obtaining NBCC’s new Board Certified Coach credential, available to those with advanced degrees in counseling and other behavioral and social sciences. You can learn more about the requirements of the BCC here. ILCT has also developed 3 new certificate programs. Like the Certified Life Coach, these programs require 80 hours of training – the 40 hour Foundations course and 40 hours of electives in the area of specialization. Students can now become certified as a Wellness Coaching Specialist, a Relationship Coaching Specialist, or a Business Coaching Specialist. You can learn more by visiting our website or join us for a Coaching Credentialing teleconference to be held Wednesday December 8th, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST.

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

Dealing with The Holiday Rush: The life coaching approach
by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC

It seems this time of year, with a string of holidays in November and December around the globe, people experience the paradoxical feelings of opportunities of Holiday celebrations and gatherings, mixed with the sense of rush that accompanies gift buying, preparations, decorating, and invitations to various parties.

The hallmark lesson from coaching is that life balance comes from choices made.

You can say no to overcommitting. You can say no to overindulgence of food and drink. You can make choices for how to spend your Holiday season. You can say yes spending time the way you want to. So before the Holiday rush leads to stress and exhaustion, do a little pre-planning on how you want to spend your time and energy. This end of the year should be a time for recharging your energy, not draining it. The choice is ultimately yours.

Coaching tips to decompress, manage stress and energize:

1. Remember to pause and breathe. Do this consciously and often. Perhaps schedule time each day to meditate, listen to calming music, go for a walk in nature? Get away from the stressful environment of holiday demands.
2. Do something for others. Consider volunteering to deliver food to the needy, work in a local food bank, give gifts anonymously to a needy family. This falls in the ‘random acts of kindness’ category and truly fills your heart and soul.
3. Keep it simple. Let this be your mantra for the holidays. Simple is better. What people want most is heartfelt connection and simple gifts of time and love. Think about how to communicate the spirit of the season rather than focusing on purchasing gifts.
4. Give yourself a gift of solitude, peace, and tranquility for self reflection. Write in a journal. Go to peaceful places as noted in #1. Enjoy the end of another year and the anticipation of a great one to come.

Patrick Williams, EdD, MCC, is "Chief Energizing Officer" of the Institute for Life Coach Training.

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What Pat Recommends

Jack's Notebook: A business novel about creative problem solving by Gregg Fraley Problems! Jack Huber has his share. But when he is introduced to the creative problem solving process from an unexpected source, life soon changes . . . drastically. Jack Huber dreams of being a professional photographer and starting his own business. He has a few ideas but doesn't know how to process them to make his dream a reality. That is until an unlikely mentor stumbles upon Jack's path and shares a whole new way of thinking through problems. In Jack's Notebook, Gregg Fraley, an innovation consultant to Fortune 500 companies, illustrates a well-kept secret of corporate America: the Creative Problem Solving process. "If you are struggling to move ahead in your career, if you're an executive with a thorny corporate challenge, someone trying to solve a messy community issue, a family trying to sort through an emotional conflict, or an entrepreneur looking for ways to make the most of limited resources-this book is for you. If you have a 'mess' on your hands, you have found a useful tool." -from the Introduction

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