It's That Time Of Year Again!

Join Rosy Elliott, VP of Membership and one or two other board members for the Spring New Members Lunch.   

Friday, May 6 at 12:30.

Bahama Breeze

320 Goddard Blvd in King of Prussia.     

If you are new to PACA or still feel new come along.

Whether you are new to coaching or are a seasoned coach this is a great way to meet other new members, get a more intimate experience of PACA and have your questions about PACA addressed. 

We look forward to seeing you there.

RSVP by May 4
Rosey Elliott 

Upcoming Events 

PACA Annual Business Meeting May 19

Members, please plan to attend the May Business Meeting to begin at 5:00 PM, Thursday, May 19, 45 minutes before the scheduled monthly dinner meeting. This meeting will be a review PACA 2010 (financials, membership, developments) and an overview of the 2011 initiatives.

Please see proposed changes to our bylaws on the PACA website. We encourage our members to review these changes, ask questions and join a discussion and vote at the May business meeting.

May Monthly Dinner Meeting

Date & Time: 

Thursday, May 19, 2011- 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Topic:

Game On:  How to Plan Your 2011 Success

PACA Conference Update

By Cindy Howes, ICF Philadelphia/PACA Conference Co-Chair

Only six months until Coaching Excellence: Foundations & Frontiers, the 2011 ICF Philadelphia Coaching Conference.  Pull out your calendar and put the event on the 11-11-11 page.  We are meeting at Penn State Great Valley in Malvern from 7:30-5:00.  If you or your company would like visibility at the conference and in our conference promotion, consider being a sponsor/vendor.  Links to vendor/sponsor information are on the homepage of our website (www.philadelphiacoaches.org). 

Our keynote speaker will be Annie McKee, Ph.D., founder of Teleos Leadership Institute.  McKee is a renowned author, engaging speaker and advisor to top leaders.  She is best known for her work on emotional intelligence and resonant leadership.  BusinessWeek dubbed her, "the high priestess of executive coaching" in their 2005 Top 100 Leaders issue.

McKee has co-authored groundbreaking books on leadership, including Primal Leadership, Resonant Leadership and Becoming a Resonant Leader.  Annie's newest book, Management: A Focus on Leadersrevolutionizes the way management is taught and learned.  She serves as Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches at the Wharton School's Aresty Institute of Executive Education.

Plan to join us for Annie McKee and many other top coaches and speakers on 11-11-11.

Corporate Coaching Corner 

Member Spotlight:

By Pat Weeks

Veteran coach Lisa Kramer came to coaching with a background as a clinical social worker and a social work educator at Widener University.  Lisa found herself "getting itchy" just about the time that coaching was coming into its own. In 1998, she enrolled in coach training with the Coaches Training Institute and became certified with CTI in 2001. 

Lisa's transition to coaching was gradual; while setting up her business, she continued to teach at Widener. She realized that in addition to her love of coaching, she was passionate about teaching and mentoring. Lisa joined the faculty of the Institute for Life Coach Training in 2004, and during the past seven years, Lisa has trained and mentored hundreds of professionals who are transitioning to coaching. She is currently on the faculty at the University of Texas/Dallas Executive Coaching program.

Today, Lisa's coaching business, Living with Intention LLC, is a stimulating mix of life, leadership and mentor coaching as well as coach training.  She trains business leaders to use a 'coach approach' with the coaching skills program she co-designed with fellow coach and dear friend, Colleen Bracken. Lisa notes that the beautiful thing about coaching is that one never gets bored...there are so many opportunities available to coaches in various settings. 

Lisa is constantly surprised by who shows up in her business, and she feels it is an honor and privilege to coach these clients. She believes that coaching is inter-developmental, and she grows and stretches right alongside her clients.  For Lisa, coaching is a collaborative partnership, and she feels fortunate that some of her previous clients have become colleagues and close friends.  

Lisa's ideal clients are professional men and women in mid-life who yearn for more in their work and in other dimensions of their lives. Coaching becomes a vehicle for transformation. Many are at a stage in their lives where they want to make a significant contribution.  Her work in organizations tends to be with business leaders of smaller companies, and Lisa finds that these clients are just as open to transformational coaching as her life coaching clients. These clients recognize that the better they know themselves, the more effective they are at leading their employees.   

Given two weeks of professional development, Lisa would divide her time in half: part engaging in a silent retreat, which is something she has never experienced; and part, traveling to other countries to connect with coaches from different cultures. A recent training experience in Canada provided Lisa with a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Canadian coaches. In 2005 she traveled to Australia where she attended the Australasian coaching conference.   

Lisa is most proud of her two sons, ages 25 and 22 who have grown to become incredible young men. Of course, she isn't at all biased!  

Perhaps you've noticed that PACA is in the process of doing business as ICF Philadelphia. Over the next few months you will see our website converted to the same family of graphics you see when you visit the ICF website.  We are making this change consistent with the goals we have been pursuing this year, namely:

1. Leadership -- we must be leaders in our communities and within the field of coaching.  PACA must attract, retain, and help develop leaders.
2. Recognition -- we need to clearly and specifically identify who we are, what we do, and who we serve.  We then need to promote this via the internet (such as social networking and an appealing website), at networking functions, and by word of mouth.  PACA must more fully and consistently leverage the ICF brand, taking advantage of the enormous talent and millions of dollars that ICF invests in promoting coaching.
3. Sustainability -- we must consistently improve our coaching processes, supporting the art of coaching with evidence-based science (figuring out how to replicate our processes to get predictable results), and we must support each other (a big piece of a much larger pie is much better than an entire very small pie).  PACA must do the same -- improve its processes and continue to meet the changing needs of our members.

Change can be difficult! We know many people know and love PACA, so we are using both names during this transition phase. Please stay tuned!

All about CCEU Credits

PACA is committed to bringing you high quality programs that inspire, engage and perhaps even provoke.  And if you are an International Coach Federation (ICF) credentialed coach, you will need CCEUs in order to renew your credential.   

So as an added bonus to our programming, we are making sure you can receive credit whether it is through your attendance at our monthly meetings (up to over 10 credits per year) or our annual Philadelphia Area conference.

Receiving CCEUs at PACA monthly meetings is easy:

1. Indicate at the sign-in table that you want the CCEUs.
2. Be present for the entire speaker portion of the evening.
3. Make sure to pick up your certificate at the end of the evening.  Elizabeth Hechtman distributes them.
4. Retain your certificate for submission to ICF credentialing. 

Keep in mind that you will probably be accumulating credits over a period of years. You are responsible for collecting and keeping certificates safe. They are your "Golden Tickets" to retaining your ICF credential. We cannot distribute certificates except on the evening of the event and we cannot replace lost certificates.  You may want to scan the certificate and save it on your hard drive as soon as you get home so you have an electronic record.  We urge you to store your certificates in a safe place.   

Also, we are in the thick of planning our annual conference for November 11, 2011. We'll be offering a full day of seminars and workshops complete with CCEUs. Watch for details in the coming months.

And did you know that you can quickly and easily earn additional CCEUs by participating in the many ICF conference calls that are offered?  You can find these on the ICF website under events.  Check them out. They are interesting and offer you credits too!   http://www.coachfederation.org/research-education/virtual-education/ 

Finally, check the ICF website for the specific requirements for your credential at: http://www.coachfederation.org/research-education/continuingcoacheducation/ 

We look forward to seeing you at our PACA events.

Book Review: A Great Book for Coaches

By Cindy Howes, Executive Career Coach & Organizational Change Consultant

Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield , Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, April 2011.

If you've ever made a New Year's Resolution and couldn't keep it, you are not alone.  The fact is 98% of the people who make resolutions break them, and most of us have worked hard to make personal changes and failed. We have had clients who have done the same thing, and why is this? Do they lack willpower?  Often that is what they think, but Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success states that this is not the case.  Instead, we are blinded and overwhelmed by six sources of influence that are working against us.  And if we can get them lined up in our favor, we are 10 times more likely to be successful at meeting our goals-even hard to change behaviors like weight loss, addictions, financial problems, career issues and relationships are within reach.

Kerry Patterson, et al are members of the VitalSmarts consulting organization. Their previous publications, Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations and Influencer are all based on the same underlying model of human performance: Motivation and Ability from Personal, Social and Structural perspectives.  However, Change Anything focuses on making personal changes.  They studied over 5000 people who were successful at making personal change and sustaining it for years-their stories fill the book and provide engaging lessons.  The authors distilled their findings into 21 tactics that are concrete supports that may or may not work for any one individual.  Their second principle is that you must become the scientist and the subject to figure out what will work for you. Everyone has unique reactions, and when you study yours it becomes easier to customize a package of tools and techniques that work.  The authors' final principle is that a bad day often provides useful lessons.  Rather than being upset when we go back to old behaviors, we need to use the situation as data to investigate what prompted the problematic behavior and how we can adjust our physical and social environment to allow us to change.  And, moreover, is there something else we need to learn to support such a change? 

In addition to all the tips detailed inside, when you purchase the book there is a link to online tools, support and success stories available without charge for the first three months at ChangeAnything.com.  As coaches we can provide social support-both motivationally and through skill building-and the knowledge that can help people change anything.

Get Published in PACA's Newsletter!

PACA invites members to submit articles that are aligned with our strategic objectives this year:

• Leadership -- Share your leadership in the coaching industry, or write about the leaders you have learned from, hear at conferences, etc.
• Recognition -- Are you recently certified by an ICF-acredited program? How was the program? How did it help you build your coaching practice?
• Sustainability -- How are you contributing from or creating the science of coaching? What evidence-based practices give you and your clients assurance that the coaching is having a positive impact?

Suzanne Perry, our VP of Communications at communications@philadelphiacoaches.org.

Join us at a PACA Board Meeting to get better acquainted with your Board: 1st Thursday of each month from 8:30 - 10:45 am.

As location varies, please contact PACA Secretary Dena Lefkowitz secretary@philadelphiacoaches.org or 484-442-8210 to confirm your attendance at a Board meeting and receive instructions.

If you have suggestions or observations about our community, please feel free to contact any of the Board members http://www.philadelphiacoaches.org/contact.html.

Attention ICF Members: It's renewal time!

Just a friendly reminder that your annual ICF membership for 2010 expired on April 30th.  

 
All ICF Members who have not yet renewed for 2011 will lose their membership privileges unless they renew asap!

Please take a moment to visit the ICF website to renew today!

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