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Are you interested in promoting your coaching services, special programs, teleclasses, or other opportunities designed with the professional coach in mind?
NJPCA offers Ad space in our monthly Virtual Newletters starting as low as $50 per ad!
Here is what we offer:
- Access to 500+ colleagues in coaching and related businesses
- Frequent exposure opportunities - our broadcasts are monthly
- Reduced ad rates for multiple announcements
- Reduced ad rates for ICF members
www.njcoaches.org/Advertising
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UPCOMING EVENTS
NJPCA In-Person Meeting
Wednesday, April 22
6 - 9 PM
Main Topic: "Outrun The Bear: 10 Ways to Grow a Powerful Practice in a Weak Economy"
Guest Speaker: Sandy Schussel
At Somerset Ramada in Somerset, NJ
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NJPCA - Teleclass
Thursday, April 23
7 - 8 PM
Phone # 605-475-6350
pin # 611749
"Promote Your Business
Using Social Media"
Guest Presenter: Kathy Malone
Check out our web site,
www.njcoaches.org
for more information and to register.
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NJPCA Virtual Meeting
Friday, May 8
Noon - 1 PM
Phone # 605-475-6350
pin # 611749
Topic: "Managing in Uncertain Times"
Facilitated by Richard Canter
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Invitation to join
a NJPCA
Board Meeting
All NJPCA members are invited to attend an in-person board meeting on May 1.
Time: 10 AM - 2 PM
Location: Lynn Schaber's house Middletown, NJ
Come join the fun and be a part of the planning for the rest of the year.
R.S.V.P by 4/24/09 to
lynn@potentialwithin.net
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 Board Growth = Position Available! |
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We
are once again looking for a treasurer, the person who had planned on
taking over the role, had to decline. It is important to fill this role
soon since our current treasurer, Michelle O'Neill was in the process
of transitioning out of this role.
The treasure is responsible
for working with the Virtual Bookkeeper to oversee the financial
records of the organization. Financial knowledge is desirable though
not required. If you can balance a checkbook, we can train you on the
rest. This is a great way to learn how a non-profit organization works.
If you are looking for a way to give back to the coaching community for
1-2 hours a week, please touch base with us to learn more.
You can contact
Lynn Schaber 732-822-3274,
CJ Kern 973-627-0742
or Richard Canter 908-306-0775.
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Contribute to our
Suggestion Box!
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We've had an enthusiastic response to having Breakout Sessions at our monthly
events in addition to
our featured Keynote
Speakers. Do you have
a great idea for a Breakout
Session topic? If so, we want
to hear from you. Send your suggestions to Elise Holtzman at elise@advocatesuccessgroup.com
Don't miss this opportunity
to put your two cents in!
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Note from the President
Spring is in the air, although it doesn't always feel that way on these chilly mornings. However, get in your car after it has been sitting in the sun for awhile and you know it is right around the corner.
As nature begins to wake up and fill our senses with beautiful sights and smells, it is a reminder to us to be in the moment. How many moments can you string together when you are on a walk or driving in your car? Does your heart skip a beat when you see a tree beginning to bloom? Do you smile at the daffodils and crocuses? Do you feel warm and relaxed as you drive in your car and feel the sun pouring in your windows?
Make it a point to find 5 moments each day to be in the present and smile, laugh or sigh in contentment at the pleasure it brings. Let the world drop away, forget about the traffic or being late, the bad economy or anything else that brings negative energy. For the moment - enjoy the moment - and carry forth that positive energy into the rest of your day.
Why did we become coaches? Because we know there is a better way, a different path that is more easily illuminated when we take the time to be present and be in the moment.
Did you take your 5 today?
Hoping to share a moment with you,
Lynn Schaber
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Calling all Members to Create a
Critical Mass of Coaches
through Premier Membership
Now that March is over and your ICF membership has been renewed, you are in a perfect position to upgrade to NJPCA Premier Membership status. What a great way for us as a group to make ourselves known to the world, especially now, when so many could benefit from the value of coaching. And, speaking of value, for only $75.00, you can become a 2009 Premier member of NJPCA. Access this link: www.njcoaches.org/BecomeaMember
This small investment provides you with your own Web page to put your profile out there for the world to see. In addition, you receive a $10.00 coupon toward a meeting fee, and the $5.00 fee for teleclasses is waived for Premier members. If you were to attend the April in-person and just 3 teleclasses, that would bring your cost down to only $50.00. Where else can you receive such a marketing value? Premier members will also soon have the ability to access a media contacts list on our web site, an incalculable value.
We are focusing on creating a critical mass of coaches through exposure on our Web site. Last year, 25% of our members became Premier members; this year, we would like to double that to 50%. So far, our Premier members number 24. Count yourself in and focus on taking a few minutes to set up your profile. It's easy! Let's show the world how diverse we are as coaches and the many ways we can help people to live their best lives through coaching.
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Speaking of Value, We Now Have a Valuable New Board Member, Jenny Monteleone, Director of External Communications
After 25 years in international marketing, Jenny was looking for a career change and found coaching. In 2003, she completed her training with CTI, and started practicing as a life and career coach both on her own and with an outplacement agency. Wanting to ramp up her coaching activity, Jenny joined NJPCA in 2002 and now wants to give back in a way that makes use of her marketing skills.
Jenny has some wonderful ideas for getting us out there in a measured, thoughtful way, using the value of no-cost public relations efforts. Jenny says we need to prioritize our communication goal that we are the state's professional coaching organization and take steps toward communicating that to the larger community through speaker's events, for instance that are timely and have a 'hook'. One way we can do that is to create more monthly events like February coaching month, which gives us a reason (or excuse!) to talk about coaching. For instance, July could be 'Teen Coaching Month', when the kids are on vacation. This gives Teen coaches the reason to go back to Barnes and Noble to ask for the opportunity to make a presentation in the coffee shop on coaching Teens.
Jenny suggests we create a calendar of monthly coaching topics that call the public to action and create a venue for us to offer our knowledge and services through coaching that links to those needs. For instance, the year-end holidays could be a great time to offer coaching as a means to managing family-related stress, or January could be a time for a focus on financial coaching to recover from holiday spending and put money matters in order. In this way, every month can be a timely Coach Month focus. So, on that note, here is another call to action: send your ideas for coaching-related issues that can be placed on our calendar to create newsworthy reasons for NJPCA, and you, to create our own PR, to Jenny at jennymonteleone@comcast.net.
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In the Meantime...
Consider revving up your speaking skills so that you can use our growing publicity effort when your favorite coaching focus comes up on the calendar. Our NJPCA Virtual Meetings have been a nice addition to our offerings, allowing members to participate without having to leave the comfort of their homes-or wherever they call in from. Now, you can participate on an even higher level. If you would like to facilitate a topic for a virtual meeting, get in touch with Lynn Schaber at lynn@potentialwithin.net
Facilitating can be a great way to get to know some members and for them to appreciate who you are and what you do. It's easy. The first 20 minutes or so are spent doing announcements and introductions, the next 20 are devoted to your coaching topic, and the final 20 find you facilitating a lively discussion.
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A Quick Assessment Report...
For those of you who did not get to the recent meeting at which Michael Klein spoke of using assessments in coaching, here are some insights from attendees, Sherry Bakhtian, PhD, ACC., of Bakhtian Creative Solutions, and Janice Bastani, PCC, CEIC, CELC, of Focus Coaching. If you weren't able to attend, don't worry, Michael will be offering this workshop again on May 27 in Lincroft, New Jersey, as part of our effort to provide double meetings in different locations, to make it easy to attend a meeting closer to your home.
Sherry thought Michael's presentation was excellent. She says, "He definitely is the person to go to, if you are interested in learning more and finding out which tools and assessments are best". Sherry adds that she learned that Michael finds 360 assessments to be of little or no value based on bias. She agrees with him to a certain extent, it depends on why and how the 360 is being used and what is the expected outcome. Sherry thinks self-assessments are valuable springboards to start from, saying that it gives you objective, black and white data to use as a tool in coaching. Sherry doesn't use them in personal coaching, but has used them in executive coaching.
Janice felt that Michael Klein's presentation on the world of assessments was very informative. She reports that Michael presented all of the assessments that he works with and says that he is very knowledgeable in all of the ones which he presented. He reviewed what each one does and how we as coaches can apply an assessment as a specific tool to our business and how an assessment can grow our coaching business by showing that there are several tools out there that can provide a "place to start" with a client.
Janice added that having a large of selection of assessments in one's core group of offerings is attractive to a large client such as a corporate giant. This gives you, the coach, a place to highlight your own niche based on the outcome of an assessment as the point of building from the baseline up. She says that having a program that has an assessment on the front end and on the back end as the measurement tool is also a strong selling point and a huge ROI in the sales game. Janice appreciated that Michael answered many questions and took time to explain in detail how he has used certain assessments in his own business and how we as coaches can use them as another arm for our businesses. |
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