Get Your CCEUs and Expand Your Practice!
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As coaches, we are all
striving to be the best we can be, to ensure that we are giving our clients a
strong Solution Focused approach to achieving their ultimate goals. The International
Coach Federation credentials are part of our commitment to our clients. These
credentials speak for us, they assure our clients that they are working with a
practiced, proven and expert coach. These credentials support professionalism
in the coaching community by creating benchmarks to meet and exceed. These
credentials also serve as an inspiration to us-the commitment to maintain these qualifications requires the upkeep of our own practice. By seeking the title of Associate Certified Coach, Professional Certified Coach or Master Certified Coach, we
are making a promise to ourselves to continue our own growth as coaches, to
continue to educate ourselves and attain greater heights of understanding,
greater opportunities for ourselves, and ultimately achieve greater impact on the
world.
This is why the renewal
process of the ICF credentialing system is of such great value for coaches. In
order to renew your ICF credentials, be they ACC, PCC or MCC, you are required
to have 40 Continuing Coaching Education Units every three years. This is an
opportunity for you to expand your practice in new, interesting directions,
through the attainment of these units.
Erickson College provides a
number of ICF CCE approved courses which can count towards your CCEU goal. This
summer, we are excited to host a number of them among our summer series of
personal development courses. We are also excited to be hosting other, non-CCE courses
within this series for coaches and individuals seeking to make deeply personal
achievements. Please take a moment to read about our summer offerings:
 14 CCEUs:
High Performance Team Coaching,
High Performance Leadership
In many companies innovation is an elusive quality, it is either present or not - rather than a process that can be trained and managed. How can we manage a team and design an environment that consistently generates innovation?
This course examines and defines the structure and principles of innovation and provides specific tools to enhance the creativity and strategic thinking of individuals, teams, and organizations. You will learn how to develop an environment and coach team members such that innovation becomes a consistent result.
Venue: The Granville Island Hotel
Date: July 26 - 28, 2010
Tuition: $699 CDN
Trainer: Paul Gossen
 Personal Development Course:
The 9 Disciplines of Emotional Intelligence
This program is unique. It is designed for persons who are interested in inner exploration, and it quickly moves them to discover significant doorways into transformational self- coaching. It is designed to assist inner candor and inner humor.
Participants discover they can become a life "editor" developing a self experience that produces strong self trust. People use the course to leave behind old stories, and to create relaxation about their history.
Venue: The Granville Island Hotel
Date: August 3 - 5, 2010
Tuition: $699.00
Trainer: Marilyn Atkinson
 25 CCEUs:
Advance of the Spirit
Advance of the Spirit
is a program designed for those who want to continue their own growth and inner
exploration both with capacity and range of connection to others and also
within themselves.
We are offer this unique Coaching program once a year in Vancouver. It
is a program that offers you the next level in your personal coach training
journey after the Art and Science of Coaching! In each day of this
program you will gain increased access to your inner vision as well as the
advanced capacities that this will enable for you.
Venue: The Granville Island Hotel
Date: August 7 - 10, 2010
Tuition: $799.00
Trainer: Marilyn Atkinson
 Creative Development Course:
Four Quadrant Thinking
For the past ten years, a revised systemic model for consciousness has been emerging in multiple quarters.
Now, Dr. Marilyn Atkinson offers a training program that gives coaches, facilitators, consultants, and trainers a framework to use this methodology for the rapid acceleration of professional development for themselves and for those they coach. This course will assist you to build balance and flexibility in your life and to develop your genius into key areas of intuitive creativity. You will come into a developed work and start to use it your own way. Four-quadrant thinking provides an alphabet. It allows you to translate your experience into balanced, connected forms of thinking that accelerate inner clarity.
Venue: The Granville Island Hotel
Dates: August 12 - 14, 2010
Tuition: $699.00
Trainer: Marilyn Atkinson
 12 CCEUs:
Competencies with Brains in Mind
Participants will learn a definition of "mind" and support for the premise that people in relationships use their minds to integrate their brains, and that coaching is an example of this principle. The importance of integration to well-being, creativity, and optimum functioning will be described. Eighteen exercises based on this knowledge will support all eleven Core Coaching Competencies of the International Coach Federation.
Venue: Erickson College, Vancouver, BC
Date: August 22 - 23
Tuition: $499 CDN
Trainer: Linda J. Page
Please contact our Vancouver office if you have any questions about these Summer Courses:
info@erickson.edu
1 800 665 6949
604 879 5600
www.erickson.edu
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"Effective Enrollment Conversations"
By Teresia LaRocque, MCC |
 Hello fellow coaches, Hope you are having a wonderful summer. So far mine has been a bit of a blur as we welcome the new addition to our family our son, Kenneth LaRocque Terada. Visit my blog to meet Kenny and read the thoughts of a new gushing mom! :) www.teresiasblog.comAs I transition into motherhood, I continue to hold the vision for you to continue to take the necessary steps to build a profitable business this summer. As I promised last month I am sharing with you the most critical strategies to increase your bottom line. When I first started my coaching business, I immediately realized the power of an effective "complimentary coaching session". I launched my own coaching practice in January of 1996 and within 3 months I grew my practice from $800 to $3,000 per month. The reason I was able to get these results in such a short period of time was that I took the time to master an effective enrolment conversation. Over the years I have fined tuned this process and created a system that supports coaches to shift their perspective on "selling" and attract more paying clients. Is the complimentary session a big part of your business building strategy? If not, I encourage you to make it so. What is your relationship with facilitating a complimentary session? Do you enjoy it? Do you resist them? Facilitating a complimentary session is an opportunity to really connect with and support the client to get really clear about what they want, and inspire them to the possibilities of their life. It is not selling, it is doing what we love most - helping individuals commit and take action to the possibilities of their life. You can have fun with your complimentary sessions and have it be a powerful business building activity. Offering a complimentary session is on of the most effective ways to begin a professional relationship. Here are some key points to keep in mind when facilitating effective complimentary sessions: The objectives of a complimentary session are:· To allow a prospect to experience coaching and your coaching style · For you to see exactly where the prospect is in their life · For you both to decide if working with you as their coach is their next best step A powerful complimentary session includes three sections:1. Preframe - this where you guide the client to prepare for the session and clearly state the purpose of the session 2. Body of the complimentary session - this is all about the client - what are their needs? What do they really want to have happen in their life? What change do they want that is priceless? 3. Invitation - if you feel it is a good fit and the prospects commitment is high ask for the financial commitment (I know, I know, this can be a little nerve wrecking - but what I know for sure when you follow the process up front of delivering an effective complimentary session - asking for the financial commitment is effortless- honestly! :) Here are some of the most common mistakes that coaches make · Making the complimentary session about the coach and their products and services and not an actual coaching "discovery" session · Proceeding into a complimentary session immediately after answering a number of questions about coaching and without giving the client time to prepare for the session · Not asking for the business/financial commitment Take some time and go over your process of delivering a complimentary session. Are you getting the results you want? Do you need to tighten it up? Taking the time to master your complimentary session will not only save you time, increase your bottom line but also increase your confidence as a coach and business owner. TLC Coaches Challenge: For those of you who want to take huge leaps my challenge to you is to book at least 6 complimentary sessions per week for a month. This will create a lot of momentum. Work with your coach, a success buddy, or a fellow coach to hold you accountable in booking your complimentary sessions. Remember, you can make a difference in someone's life by one complimentary session experience. Enjoy the journey! "See" you next month! Your catalyst in transforming your bottom line,  www.passionintoprofitforcoaches.comTransform your bottom line * Leverage your business * Love your life
If you would like find out more about the strategies and processes I
developed over the years, visit: http://www.teresia.com/products/index.html and check out
our ebook:
How to prospects into clients with the complimentary session
http://teresia.com/products/prospects.html
New resource! You
can do the Passion Into Profit Program at your convenience. Based on
demand this summer I made available for you the Passion into Profit home
study program. For more information contact us at
info@passionintoprofitforcoaches.com to set up your personal
consultation to see if it is the next best step for you.
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"The 12 Must-Have Characteristics of a Powerful Question" by Rae T. Chois, MCC
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Questions are the Answer!
Have you ever found yourself totally frustrated trying to communicate with a person because they were stuck in the past story line, stuck in excuses and justifications? What if you were able to support them in these challenging and often painful moments to open the door to new ideas and solutions? What if you could powerfully move them out of negative spinning and vicious circle judgements to awaken their best, more expanded thinking, and support them toward empowering resolution? Would this interest you? That is exactly what we will cover in this article.
Whether you are a coach, a manager, a parent etc., your life will greatly benefit from learning how to design and phrase powerful questions that elicit the best from yourself and those around you.
The following are the main characteristics of powerful and effective solution focused questions.
Powerful Questions:
1. Are based in genuine caring and a sincere desire to learn to support the person gets what he or she wants.
2. Are asked with warmth and softened with rapport building techniques so the person feels honoured, cared about, trusting and trusted.
3. Are designed to move the person towards what they desire, not to look backward to explain or justify the past choices and action.
4. Support learning and growth by awakening resourcefulness, not triggering defensiveness.
5. Are clear, clean and concise (i.e. usually fewer words create a more powerful question) and worded in such a way as to awaken the genius within.
6. Create clarity of purpose and direction.
7. Support congruency and personal alignment with values.
8. Develop focus and clarity, leading towards a state of passionate commitment.
9. Empower and design effective decisions.
10. Look from multiple perspectives to give the person wisdom in seeing the bigger picture, thus illuminating and drawing out how to move forward.
11. Assist more comprehensive, systemic thinking.
12. Are often followed with silence and space so the person has the opportunity to think through the provocative question. Silence also shows that you are genuinely interested in listening and care about them enough to give them space to think.
Overall, powerful questions are focused on supporting the person to be the sort of person they really want to be and to create what they really want. Such questions are powerful because they evoke clarity, intention, value, deeper meaning, realizations, understanding, connection, commitment, and action within the person that allows for clear choices.
As you consider this list of the characteristics of powerful questions, how might you begin to rephrase the questions you ask in your life?
Whether you ask these questions of yourself, your friends, your family, or in your workplace, how might designing powerful questions to transform your current personal and professional relationships?
I invite you to take a moment now, and design a list of powerful question that includes most of the above characteristics. Get creative! Have fun with it!
Once you have your list of questions perhaps ask yourself, "What might be some of the ways to use these power questions even more effectively in my life? And how else? And how else?"
To learn more about powerful questions and transformational conversations, please read "The Art & Science of Coaching" book series by Marilyn Atkinson and Rae T. Chois, or attend Erickson College's coach training programs.
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" A Coaching Culture Transformation" by Paul Gossen, PCC
|  Paul Gossen, the Breakthrough Coach, has spent 30
years as a successful serial entrepreneur and business leadership
innovator, producing high impact
results in corporate coaching, team productivity and organizational
transformation. Here he presents for us a case study of how truly revolutionary corporate coaching can be.
What would a true organizational coaching culture actually look like? As coaches and human resource professionals we often love to imagine a theoretical organization where "everyone is a coach and has a coach". But how would this actually work? Welcome to Coastal Community Credit Union. While no organization could ever live up to this absolute ideal, the coaching culture transformation of Coastal is an authentic demonstration of what can be accomplished with a dedicated team in a small organization with the right fundamentals.
But how does a champion of organizational change begin? Why do many corporations that conduct managerial coach training see little significant change? At Coastal, an accredited Manager as Coach training, based on the ICF coaching competencies was the foundation. Building a true transformational shift into this training experience was key.
Are real coaching conversations actually taking place? We all know it takes time to shift old habits. Having more that 10% of Coastal's 650 staff participate, created a saturated learning environment that reinforced the coaching message. A comprehensive follow-up program supported the early adopting managers to dialogue their success until the benefits of the managerial coaching process became self-evident.
Is coaching really an organizational priority? Any cultural shift will quickly lose momentum if it is fighting against the overall current. Coastal's early success with managerial coaching would have faded if it had not been well integrated with the overall strategy, performance management systems and leadership initiatives. Managerial success stories supported the coaching message to become the organizational theme of the year. This cycle of unstoppable momentum inspired 6 more coaching programs in 2009 resulting in a true tipping point.
"In the week after the program I became very aware of my pattern for
being the boss. It was difficult to keep remembering to ask for permission rather than just tell people what to do. My team was very busy and it was difficult to set-up conversations. I decided to take-on asking 5 open-ended questions every day. It worked. I found myself in dozens of on-the-fly
coaching conversations. Everything grew from there. There is now a whole
new level of energy in my team."
Dell Thomson, Associate Vice President, Retail
Coastal has a long history of a caring and employee focused organizational culture. This employee-focused strength was an important foundation for the coaching program. However it was also sometimes seen as a barrier to creating a high-performance culture. When employees deeply care about one another, sometimes there is a hesitancy to say something to a colleague that might hurt their feelings. Enabling authentic "coaching conversations" was a critical driver to creating a high-performance culture where employees are coached to be the best they can be.
In the first month after taking the Manager as Coach, I enrolled all of my
team leaders into having Manager as Coach conversations. It was
challenging to find the time and to remember to keep asking for permission first. However it kept getting easier as we kept asking questions. In the
first 90 days my team had 110 coaching conversations. My team is now a shining example of what is possible from this work."
Shawna McPhillips, Branch Manager
To read the Coastal Community Credit Union Case Study in its entirety, click here.
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An Invitation: Summer Boat Cruise!
|  The summer boat and dinner cruise around Vancouver Harbour and out to Atkinson Point is one of the best events of the year for Erickson Participants and friends. The cost, $50, includes a full multi-course salmon dinner and a dance. One hundred of us expect to be on-board including spouses. Time will be Tuesday evening, July 27, 6pm to 9pm. Come and have a blast! E-mail: info@erickson.edu |
Upcoming Fall Programs
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Coaching Forward Toronto
FREE PROGRAM
Coaching Forward provides a great opportunity to discover the impact of coaching, and learn some skills that will be immediately applicable to your life!
Join us for this complimentary one-day program in Toronto and discover whether coach training is for you.
This powerful introductory course will give you an insight into a useful set of conversational coaching skills that draw on dynamic frameworks of Solution Focused Coaching as trained in Erickson Coaching International's professional training programs.
Date: August 21st, 10am - 5pm
Venue: TBA
THE ART & SCIENCE OF COACHING PROFESSIONAL COACH CERTIFICATE COURSE
The ICF Accredited Coach Training Program.
Erickson offers you a unique approach to coaching that is not offered in any other coach training program currently available. Take the opportunity to make coaching excellence your reality. Become the coach you imagine yourself to be. Click here for more information about the program, venues and times. Modules 1 to 4 can be taken in person or online, or in combination. Module 5 is offered entirely online and can be taken in one of three classes offered each year. MODULE V: If you wish to become ICF credentialed and are ready to begin Module V, call Erickson College Vancouver for Winter 2011 scheduling information and details. Winter 2011: January 11 - March 29. The class is filling rapidly, call us at 1-604-879-5600 to reserve your slot now!MODULES I-IV ONSITE: Ottawa - Module I: November 4 - 7, 2010
Toronto - Module I: October 14 - 17, 2010
Montreal - Module I: September 30 - October 3, 2010
Vancouver - Module I: October 21 - 24, 2010
Los Angeles - Module I: October 14 - 17, 2010
San Francisco - Module I: January 13 - 16, 2010
West Virginia - Module I: January 13 - 16, 2010
We have training going on in over 30 locations around the world! Check our website for more details.
MODULE I - IV ONLINE:
Module I: July 26 Tuesdays, 3:00pm - 7:00, PST
Module I: October 5, Tuesdays 9:00am - 1:00pm, PST
 With The Art & Science of Coaching ONLINE L.I.V.E. you gain coaching skills that you can apply right away. This course is the same as our comprehensive in person coach training, only done from the comfort of your own home or office, from anywhere in the world. It is a dynamic, interactive learning environment and a wonderful unfolding of our professional training program, that we are certain you will enjoy! For additional information about the programs or to register, please contact our enrollment advisors at 604.879.5600 Toll Free 1.800.665.6949 or via email at info@erickson.edu |
Looking for an Operational Opportunity in Vancouver?
|  As part of its management team, in response to strong growth over the last years, Erickson International is looking for an Operations Senior Manager, based in Vancouver. The role would be at the interface between scheduling, enrollment, invoicing, accounting, documentation handling, statistics and workforce management. You will need a business background, have worked in operations, share the Erickson values, and enjoy transformational change processes... These are exciting times ahead. Experience with Canadian legal and accounting practices will be highly valued, as well as experience in global partner relations and operational streamlining. For more information, e-mail: marilyn@erickson.edu |
| What Participants Say... |
Watch an interview with Rae T. Chois, Master Certified Coach and Erickson's Senior Trainer: "Education through Erickson College" (please click on the icon)  THE ART AND SCIENCE OF COACHING"Erickson College fully provides the coach with a complete package that supports the knowledge required to place every customer in the driver's seat of self-discovery. Thank you Erickson for standing as a leader in the coaching field with principles that put the customer first. I applaud your integrity and am proud to be an Erickson Graduate." Mark Marcynuk"Layer upon layer, a picture of an entirely different way of life emerges." Mike McCarthy"The atmosphere was one of the most supportive & safe I have experienced. It provided an environment for opening and moving through apprehension to potential." Blake Wright"Very practical and result-oriented. The theory and the practise worked very well." Ellen Gerde"So motivational & inspirational. An amazing learning opportunity. Wonderful people." Andrea Ferguson |
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 BLISScipline A.I.M.
FREE, live, 28-day guided practice.
The BLISScipline Energy Practice is a 25-30 minute daily practice combines appreciation, meditation, future visioning, mind and heart expansion, and action planning for the day. Our participants are people (and fellow coaches) who are ready to step away from daily "overwhelm" and stress into a joy-filled, energized, engaging new daily habit of both BLISS and inner discipline.
For more info and practice times: www.BLISSciplineAIM.com
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| With The Art & Science of Coaching ONLINE L.I.V.E. you gain coaching skills that you can apply right away.
This course is the same as our in-person coach training, only
done from the comfort of your own home or office, from anywhere in the world.
It is a dynamic learning environment and a wonderful unfolding of our professional training program, that we are certain you will enjoy!
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