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Looking for a Convention?

The ICF Midwest Convention is your opportunity this year. It's the only ICF Conference in North America! Check it out!

The Prism Event is Coming on June 13!

What do the IBM Americas, Raytheon, Lewisville Independent School District and University of Texas Southwest Medical Center all have in common? They are past winners of the ICT-NT Prism Award, honored for their ability to successfully integrate coaching into their business culture and produce remarkable results because of it.

If you are ready to reserve your seat to this year’s event on June 13, click here to register.

If you want to read more about the event, sponsorship opportunities, and past winners, click here or go to the Prism tab.

Coming July 12

The next regular luncheon and workshop being hosted by the ICF-NT is on July 12. Ginger Cockerham, MCC wrote the book (literally!) on group coaching and she will be bringing her expertise to both the luncheon program and the afternoon workshop.

The luncheon program begins our look at Effective Group Coaching: Tools, Skills, and Proficiencies. According to Fast Company Magazine, 65% of all companies and organizations who have coaching programs will be expanding them in the next five years. That expansion will be more and more in the area of coaching groups. To capitalize on this trend, coaches need to develop their group coaching skill set and understand the differences between group coaching and other types of group processes. This session will introduce the concepts and opportunities for group coaching. Click here to read more.

To register for the luncheon program, click here: ICF NT Monthly Meeting - 7/12/2013.

Ginger Cockerham, MCC and CMC, is an Professional Business Coach, who has an international group coaching business that includes executives, advisers and professionals in financial, health and service industries. Ginger has worked with the International Board of the ICF and is on the faculty in the Executive Coaching Program at UTD. She teaches her group coaching course at Teachers College Columbia University. Ginger has a group coaching training program at Coachville.

The afternoon workshop takes a deeper look at Group Coaching: Real Life Applications. In this experiential workshop attendees will practice live group coaching. Participants will engage in actual group coaching, as a coach, as a coachee and as an objective observer giving instant feedback to other participants. Click here to read more.

To register for the afternoon workshop, click here: Ginger Cockerham on Group Coaching - 7/12/2013.

NOTE: Separate registrations are required for the luncheon and workshop.

Coming Soon:

Our August Luncheon Program is on Friday, August 9. Speaker John Pollock’s topic will be What Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes.

Although they may have or even be the greatest CPA in the world, the sad truth is that most business owners are paying thousands of dollars each year in unnecessary taxes, and they don’t even know it. According to John Pollock, a Certified Tax Coach and president of John Pollock Financial, members can keep much of their tax dollars in their own pockets—legally—just by making several strategic changes in the way they operate their business.

To learn more about the August luncheon program, click here.

To register, click here: ICF NT Monthly Meeting - 8/9/2013

Our August Workshop is offered as a webinar. On August 14, the webinar is at noon CDT and August 28, the webinar is at 7:00 CDT. You can join us from the comfort of your home, work space, or favorite vacation spa. The content is the same on both webinars, so you just need to pick the one you want. Connection information for the webinar will be emailed in early August.

Our webinar trainer is Barbara Mencer. Barbara Mencer is a dynamic speaker, results oriented marketing consultant and business development coach.

Her topic is one that we are all looking for: Leveraging the Power of Generational Differences. There’s strength in diversity ... but you have to know how to tap into it. Not only do today’s businesses include more women and minorities, there may be as many as four generations working together side by side. Each comes from a different world, with a different outlook on life and work, including different ideas on how to generate business as well as different buying styles. That can serve as either a source of friction or profound strength and resourcefulness.

To learn more about the August webinar workshops, click here.

To register for the August 14 webinar, click here: Barbara Mercer on Leveraging the Power of Generational Differences - 8/14/2013

To register for the August 28 webinar, click here: Barbara Mercer on Leveraging the Power of Generational Differences - 8/28/2013

Presidents Message:

We hope to see you at this year’s Prism Award Ceremony, on Thursday Night,
June 13 at the Omni Hotel Park West.

Patti Burgess, the architect of the award has said that the concept for the award came to her when she thought of coaching as a tool to help clients create “full spectrum living” for themselves. The idea of a spectrum led to “prism” because of the ability of the quartz crystal to refract light into the full spectrum of colors. It represents the clarity of thinking, the harmony, and the alignment of many human energies working together to achieve business/organizational goals.

Our chapter has had an active Prism Awards program from the very first year (1995) that ICF launched the Global Prism Awards.

This will be an impressive day of learning about best practices from our four finalists and celebrating the eventual winners over a fine dinner. Come see which companies will add their names to the list of past winners from ICF-NT:

2005 Prism Award honored both IBM Americas.com and ORACLE Corporation. The chapter was elated that IBM went on to win the 2005 Global Prism Award.

2006 Prism Award honored The University of Texas Dallas School of Management for its commitment to coaching in both the Executive and Professional Coaching Program and the Executive MBA Program. This local winner also claimed International recognition as one of the 2006 Global Prism Award recipients at the Global ICF Conference.

2007 Prism Award honored EDS. IBM Americas.com was honored for a second time because of their significant growth in their Internal Coaching programs.

2007 Prism Nominee and ICF Global Prism Award winner was Deloitte and Touche.

2009 Prism Award honored Raytheon.

2010 Prism Award was not presented.

2011 Prism Award honored McKesson Corporation and the Lewisville Independent School District.

2012 Prism Award also featured two honorees: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, for their multi-year coaching program serving administrative and medical audiences through coaching; and Xerox Business Systems, for using coaching as a vehicle to promote excellence.

See you there!

Jim

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