2010 Lunch Programs are
Announced!
We have designed a multi-faceted
series of programs for coaches and guests in
2010. You'll find that the offerings touch on
all the major areas of life - career,
relationships, health, and others.
Our meetings will continue at
the Main Street Oyster Bar (formerly Zoria's).
Guests are encouraged to
consider our multi-program packages: 6 programs
for $40 or 4 programs for $30 (plus lunch). The
single program fee is $10.00.
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Upcoming
Happy
Hour
Friday, Jan
22nd
6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Main
Street Oyster Bar
We
invite you to come out for a casual get-together
where we can share our journeys, laugh and
unwind.
Meeting
and Happy Hour Location
Main Street Oyster Bar -
formerly Zoria's
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Your Board of Directors for 2010
is:
Art
Emrich
Bob
Hoopingarner
Deb
Mazzaferro
Steve
Silverman
Jennifer Joy
Walker
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Our programming
year is off to a great start. So far, we have
been inspired to embrace new life experiences
and adventures, have explored how to improve our
health and wellness through intelligent weight
management, and we have been challenged to use
social networking tools that will help us build
our businesses.
With our
April program, GSCA member Rhona Post will offer
us a 10-step coaching plan - "The Art of
Winning." This will be a
do-not-miss miss presentation by Rhona, who was
recently featured as a presenter at the
International Coach Federation convention in
Orlando.
Also below are profiled two of our newest
members; we truly have a wealth of talent and
experience at GSCA!
Hope to see you at our lunch meeting on
April 19!
Jennifer Joy Walker
Full
Color Living
GSCA Board Member/
Newsletter
Editor
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Get ready for our April 19
program: "The Art of Winning:
Ten Step Self Coaching
Plan"
Presenter
Rhona Post 
"Winning is everything,"
Vince Lombardi declared. Whether we define
winning through competition with others, or with
ourselves, we want to know what it takes to feel
successful--at work and at home. The Art
of Winning game plan identifies the ten
major areas of a winner's life, from Telling the
Truth, to Lighting Your Fire. Many of us are
great at giving "life" advice to others, but we
lack the initiative or follow through for
ourselves. Join Rhona Post, a masterful coach,
who blends humor and intuition to quickly "size
up" a situation and point audiences in the
"right direction." You will feel supported to
reframe issues in ways that free you to take
effective action. Included in this ten step
program is an easy to follow game plan.
Professional athletes know that
winning depends on their ability to bring both
head and heart to every game. By following the
Art of Winning program, you'll learn to bring
both head and heart to everything you do.
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The
Business Benefits of
Executive Coaching
 One application of coaching
is working with leaders and other employees
within organizations. The consulting firm HDA
recently announced the results of a survey about
attitudes toward executive coaching. Key
headlines and major trends that were
highlighted:
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97% of organizations believe that
executive coaching impacts positively on
business performance. This has risen 10% since
the 2008 HDA Survey.
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97% of respondents believe that
coaching enhances the ease with which changes
are accepted and implemented.
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Individual and/or team performance
improvement was rated as the main business
benefit observed from executive
coaching.
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Over 70% of organizations surveyed
offer coaching to employees at all levels - this
has increased by 24% since 2008. Where coaching
is offered only to certain levels, they tend to
be the senior management team, directors or high
potentials.
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The majority of those responding
(97%) are looking for value for money and
experienced coaches in their coaching
provider.
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88% of organizations state that
executive coaching provides value for money.
This is down 6% on the 2008 HDA Survey
results.
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94% of organizations offer
face-to-face rather than online/telephonic
coaching.
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A growing number of Line Managers
are acting as coaches within organizations.
The report summarizes: "The use of
executive coaching is becoming increasingly
common and this is only set to continue. As the
results of this survey confirm, it is widely
recognized that coaching can be a key factor in
enabling individuals to improve their
performance which in turn can lead to improved
business performance. Alongside improved
individual and business performance, coaching
offers the organization a 'value for money'
means of attracting, engaging and retaining key
talent. However in order to fully realize the
benefits of coaching within your organization,
it is imperative that HR implement a formal
process of monitoring success and measuring
return on investment."
It
is a healthy sign of the integrated role of
executive coaching in many of our organizations
that the next major task is to monitor success
and measure return on investment.
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Welcome
New Members!
 Ingrid Bens
is a consultant and trainer with a Master's
Degree in Adult Education and over 25 years
experience.
She has also been designated by
the International Association of Facilitators
(IAF) to be a Certified Professional Facilitator
(CPF).
Ingrid's consulting expertise is
in the area of Organization Development, where
she has designed and led numerous large-scale,
strategic change efforts in a broad range of
Fortune 500 companies, in government departments
and in non-profit organizations.
Ingrid is recognized world-wide
as a leading expert on facilitation skills. Her
Jossey-Bass Publication, "Facilitating With
Ease!" is a best seller currently in its
sixteenth printing.
Over the last two decades Ingrid
has trained thousands of people to be
facilitators through her popular workshops.
Ingrid has several other titles
in print including Facilitation at a
Glance, Advanced Facilitation
Strategies and Facilitating to
Lead. She is also the author of the
Facilitation Skills Inventory (FSI), an
instrument to assess facilitator competency,
published by Pfeiffer in 2009.
 Patty
Kitching: As president of
"Speaking for You," a consulting and
professional development training company
formally based in Atlanta, GA, Patty has trained
and coached thousands of professionals to
improve their leadership skills and public
speaking abilities.
Her other areas of expertise
include Teambuilding, Diversity Awareness,
Customer Service, Communications and
Interpersonal Relationships.
Patty has a degree in Education
from Florida State University and a Masters in
Counseling. She combines her academic
credentials with solid, real life experience to
make learning practical, stimulating, and fun.
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Looking ahead to our May
17th Program:
 The Archetypal Soul Coach:
Decoding Sacred Contracts
Presenter: Gail Condrick
Through an understanding of the
four basic archetypes that everyone shares
(Saboteur, Prostitute, Child, and Victim) and
selecting of eight archetypal patterns that are
unique to the client, individuals are guided
into a greater understanding of their life
purpose from a spiritual perspective.
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