ICA Community Bulletin

Just a reminder that Day Light saving changes will take effect in the US on the 11th March 2007. This will impact on the programming of ICA classes as our Teleclass Bridge lines all originate from the US and must remain in sync with this time zone. In summary: Read more »

ICA Alumna Tracy Tuplin, is conducting graduate research on the value of coaching. Obtaining and negotiating access to participants for data collection is often a difficult part of the research process. The process must meet a double hurdle of high academic quality and high relevance to the user community for which it is written. Read more »

There is a new forum on our discussion board called Student
Programs, where groups have been created to support students
in various aspects of their coaching experience. We welcome
your participation in any or all of these groups, and thank
the students who have offered to lead them. Read more »

The download for the Blogging Techniques Teleclass, held on the 16th January, can be downloaded via the following link.

http://learn.icoachacademy.com/pccp_assess.html

Student buddies are highly valued members of the ICA student community who volunteer their time to assist newbies to get up and running with their studies. This could involve sharing first hand experiences or assisting new students to connect with their ICA online community.

The time commitment is flexible but generally involves about 1 - 2 hours per month. The requirements of this position are that you be familiar with the ICA learning environment, have great email communication skills and be willing to support new people doing
their coach training.

If you would be interested in being a volunteer student buddy, please contact Sally Bridger (sally.bridger@icoachacademy.com).  

ICA is currently reviewing the Bridge line use for all ICA Teleclasses.

ICA moved to the current Bridge line in January 2007 in anticipation of it providing a higher quality service to skype callers. However, feedback from within our ICA community (both ICA staff and students) has indicated that this line is not an improvement and that not only skype, but also regular phone line callers, are experiencing difficulties with accessing calls and the line quality.

We are highly concerned and are following this up with our Bridge company as a matter of urgency. At the same time, we are also researching and testing alternative bridge lines to use as either a replacement or a back up. Either way, we anticipate a result within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you to our community for their feedback and patience. It is our intention that students be able to access their teleclasses without difficulty and using the most cost efficient means possible and your contribution to this process has been highly valued.

We will keep you updated and please do continue to send us your feedback via support@ica.helpserve.com.

We have had many requests for weekend classes, so we are pleased to announce the addition of two of these classes. Mark these times in your calenders:

Foundation begins on Saturday 3rd March at 3pm NY EST and will be led by Ton De Graaf.

Advanced 1 begins on Sunday 4th March at 7pm NY EST and will be led by Linda Anderson.

We have changed the times of our Business and Career Communities of Practice teleclasses, to make them more ‘time zone friendly’, for our student community.

Beginning the first week in March, the Business Community of Practice Practicum will be held at 4PM NY EST on Mondays.  The Career Community of Practice Practicum will be held at 5 PM NY EST on Thursdays.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and the enthusiasm to want to join in on these calls! 

We are pleased to announce the addition of Linda Anderson, ACC and Ton de Graaf, MCC to our training team.

Linda is a graduate of ICA and resides in Australia. Find out more about Linda at:

www.a2acoaching.com
Ton is a Master Certified Coach and resides in The Netherlands. Find out more about Ton at:
www.questcoaching.nl

You are invited to join Karen Cappello and Cassandra Rae for a follow up blogging teleclass on Tuesday, 20 February at 4pm NY on bridgeline 605-772-3744, access code 840099.  

We will continue our blogging journey covering topics, such as:

~ How to change your theme

~ Creating additional pages (you can use your blog as your website!)

~ Moderating comments

~ Manage your sidebar

~ Managing categories

~ Using photos in your posts

~ Subscribing to your blog

~ Adding your photo to your comments

As this is the follow up blogging class we are assuming that you already have a wordpress.com blog up and running.  In this Advanced class, we will access our blogs during class and walk through processes step-by-step.  We will get through as many topics as time allows while answering your questions.  

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