ICA Community Bulletin

ICA/Lobii are excited to announce the appointment of several new members to our training team.  We hope you will join with us in welcoming them into this wonderful community. These new trainers and classes have been reflected in the Academic Calendar.

Welcome:

Kate Wan, Sales CoP leader.  Kate’s first class will commence, March 18, Thursdays @ 7am NY ET

Leon VanderPol, LL3,  Leon’s first class will commence March 17, Wednesdays @ 10pm NY ET

Maria Gu, joins us as a new trainer in the Chinese Program.

USA DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS - 14 MARCH 2010

Daylight Saving Time will begin in the US, on March 14, and as the ICA Academic Calendar is based on NY ET, this change will affect the time students from many regions around the world attend classses.

** If you live in the US **

The times that you attend teleclasses will not change. But, make sure you turn your clock forward one hour on the 14th March for the start of daylight saving.

** If you live outside the US **

The times you attend teleclasses will change. You will need to update your teleclass conversions as follows:

ALL STUDENTS: Reconvert the time of your classes as of the 14th March (until the 7th November when Daylight Saving finishes in the US).

SOME STUDENTS: Reconvert the time of your classes again if your country starts or finishes Daylight Saving on a date other than the 14th March.

For a list of when countries start/finish daylight saving click HERE

To reconvert times, click HERE

And of course, don’t forget:

If you are starting daylight saving you need to turn your clock forward one hour
If you are finishing daylight saving you need to turn your clock back one hour

If you have any queries, please email support@icoachacademy.com

Hello ICA Community, 

For the last week of February we are holding an OPEN HOUSE for potential students to ICA’s programs.  We will be holding 5 calls with a focusing in North America, Europe, India, and Australia and New Zealand.  

Help to spread the spirit of coaching and ICA across the globe!   Invite your friends, family, coworkers, and contacts to join one of our OPEN HOUSE events. 

All Calls will take place on the following brigeline:
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Bridgeline: +1 512 597 6253

Access Code:  893765#
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CALL 1

Region: India

What: Coach Certification & Coaching Profession in India

Hosts: Nick Bosk & Prabha Chandrasekhar, PCC

When: Wednesday, February 24^th

Time: 8pm Chennai Time

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CALL 2

Region: North America

What: Coaching Profession and ICF Credentials

Hosts: Nick Bosk & Sheri Boone, MCC

When: Wednesday, February 24^th

Time: 8pm NY ES

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CALL 3

Region: Australia & New Zealand

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Robyn Logan

When: Thursday, February 25^th

Time: 8pm Melbourne Time

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CALL 4

Region: Europe

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Nick Bosk

When: Thursday, February 25^th

Time: 7pm London Time

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CALL 5

Region: North America

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Nick Bosk

When: Saturday, February 27^th

Time: 2pm NY EST

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To convert times please visit: http://timeanddate.com/

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nick Bosk at training@icoachacademy.com

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This is a great opportunity to become part of our Affiliate Program at ICA. 

For more info: 

http://tiny.cc/ICA_Affiliate

One of our Chinese program students, James Huang in Beijing posted his couplet to the Chinese discussion board sending his New Year’s wishes to all students.

看今朝学友勤奋挥汗如雨分享交流迎金虎
盼明日教练潇洒身体力行守德奉智为客户

真诚真相
 
“Today peers study coaching together, sweating and working diligently to welcome the Year of the Tiger; tomorrow, professional coaches, practising what we preach, nobly walking our talk, ethically, with integrity for our clients”  

Sincerity, Authenticity, and Truth

We invite all of our students to create your own and post them to the English discussion board as well.

Spring Festival couplets,  (春联, chūnlián) refer to antithetical couplets written on scrolls which convey people’s wishes for peace, fortune and good luck with concise and matching words.

Before the Spring Festival arrives, Chinese people will paste all their door panels with the couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. Chinese have always preferred the color red, as it stands for passion and good fortune. Personally, I think the colors for Spring Festival couplets - red and black - classically beautiful.

The content of the couplets varies from house owners’ wishes for a bright future to good luck for the year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

The custom of writing couplets on peach panels started in the Tang dynasty (618-907), and became popular in the Song dynasty (960-1279). The couplets earned their official name from Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who began the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and had become a form of art by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

People used to paste couplets on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall. In the courtyard they had “Spring sunshine bright.” In the living room they had “Graceful friends around,” “Treasures fill the home” and “Wishes for good fortune.” Even over the bed they pasted “Bliss of health.” Writing the couplets was in fact a kind of competition in folk wisdom and calligraphy attended by every family. Nowadays, however, few people write their own couplets, with plenty of choices offered in shops.

Our Chinese Manager, Pin Hsuan Chen invites us to create our own couplets. Pin says you will have an enjoyable soul connection when you are being immersed in the poetry couplet creation!

We would love you to take some time to reflect on your own spirit and what you might want to express in a couplet.
 
Please post your couplet on the discussion board under the Cafe and Social Area, the ‘thought or saying of the week’ section.
Enjoy everyone! and Xin nian kuai le — Happy New Year!

ICA Trainers, Isabelle King and Merci Miglino will be hosting a get together in Toronto, Canada on Sunday, 21st February @ 1pm, and would love to meet you.

So come along and join Isabelle and Merci at Toronto Distillery District .  Meet at 1pm sharp (Toronto time) by the Boiler House, entrance is via Mill Street. (See Map).  Afterwhich, you will decide as a group where to go (there are so many cafe’s, restaurants and art galleries).

If there is a chance you may be late, contact Isabelle directly at isabelle.king@icoachacademy.com so she can give you her cell number and then direct you to the cafe of choice.

Feel free to invite friends and potential friends of ICA/Lobii as well as new ICA students in the area who may not have connected with us before.

Isabelle and Merci  look forward to meeting you all there.

As we say goodbye to two trainers this month, please join us in wishing them the very best! Thank you Sherry Read and Alexia Michiels for all you have brought to ICA. We will miss you!

Sherry will be moving forward focusing on her own business and her family, whilst Alexia is moving to Switzerland and will be focusing on her much loved Yoga.

We wish both Sherry and Alexia all the best!!

It was announced that we would be launching the Lobii learnsite on the 11th of January. We have decided to, instead, coincide the launch of the Lobii learnsite with Coaching Week and the anniversary of ICA, which is on the 1st of February. This is a most exciting time and a great moment to celebrate.

In the meantime we will be sending you out the details of the calendar, so that you can start the scheduling of when you want to do your classes when you return on the 11th January.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday. We look forward to new opportunities and great, exciting developements with ICA as we go forward next year.

All the best!

Bron

We will be taking a three week break from classes at ICA, beginning Sunday December 20, with classes resuming Sunday January 10, 2010.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone within our ICA community a happy holiday season and the very best for the coming year. We look forward to welcoming you back to the corridors of ICA in 2010.

Your ICA Team!

Located in Shanghai is preferred!

Senior Executive Coach
Executive coach with more than 10 yearsof senior corporate management and coaching experience.  Experience in coaching includes one-on-one coaching with senior executives and conducting group coaching.  The candidate must have global business view with working experience in Asia Pacific, preferably in China.  Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English is required.  Coaching certification by an internationally recognized coaching institution is highly desirable.  Full-time or part-time engagement will be considered.

Executive Coach
Executive coach with more than 5 years of corporate management and coaching experience.  Experience in coaching includes one-on-one coaching with middle and senior managers and conducting group coaching.  The candidate must have in-depth understanding of the business environment in China, both in multinational and local companies.  Fluency in Mandarin Chinese is required.  Ability to use the English language is desirable.  Coaching certification by an internationally recognized coaching institution is highly desirable.  Full-time or part-time engagement will be considered.

For further information on either of these positions, you may

contact HR@P-Momentum.com

HELP !!!!

Looking for support?

Did you know…. there are 2 Student Info / Support calls every month?

Maybe you are new to ICA and need some guidance in starting your studies. Or perhaps you have questions about graduation requirements and assessments…if you are looking for answers, this call is for you!

Seriously…this is a forum for you to get your questions answered on anything ICA!

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Student Info Calls

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When: 1st Monday of the Month
Time: 8am NY ET

When: 3rd Sunday of the Month
Time: 6pm NY ET

Bridge line: +1 512 596 6253
Access code:834628#

For a complete list of dates and times go to the Academic Calendar.

Feel free to contact Nick Bosk at support@icoachacademy.com for more information.

ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of the ICA Training team, Mike Francis.  Mike is a graduate of ICA and brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge, particularly in the area of Sales.  Mike will be the trainer facilitating our new Sales CoP, commencing next week, following the mid year break.  The two time options for our Sales CoP are, Mondays, 6pm NY ET and Tuesdays, 6am NY ET.  Full details are available via the Academic Calendar.

To learn more about Mike, read his profile below:

Read more »

We are very excited to annouce the appointment of Sally Bridger as our COO (Chief Operations Officer).  Many members of our community here at ICA would know Sally as our Marketing Manager, but may not know that Sally has been with ICA since the virtual doors opened and has extensive knowledge of many different operational areas of ICA.  Over the past 8 years Sally has been an intergral member of the management and growth of ICA, contributing at all levels.

Over the last few years Sally has pursued studying for her Masters in Marketing, and sets high standards for herself, continually achieving HD results.  Sally embraces responsibility and has an amazing ability to take a creative idea and put it into practice.  Sally is passionate about ICA/Lobii  and will be an invaluable asset as we continue to grow and move forward as a community.  

Congratulations & well done Sally!

Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, our CEO and Bill Turpin, our Business Development Manager, and the entire ICA enrollment team are coming to New York!  We are so excited, and would love to meet you all.

So, please join them for drinks on Wednesday, 15 April from 5-7pm.  This is a relaxed and informal event, so no need to RSVP. 

The details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 15 Apri, 2009
Time: 5 - 7pm NY EDT
Place: W New York Hotel
‘Living Room Oasis Lounge’
541 Lexington Avenue
New York

See you there!

ICA is seeking to streghthen it’s executive team by the appointment of a Chief Finance Officer (CFO).  The CFO will play a key role in the strategic leadership and management of the finance systems at ICA.  The CFO will work closely with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to ensure that ICA is strongly positioned to enter new markets and to achieve annual growth of 50 - 60%.  An understanding of global markets, foreign currencies, financial databases and accounting is essential.  This position is initially for 3 days per week, with the opportunity of this growing into a full time postion.

If you are interested, please send along an application letter together with your resume to gwen.nr@icoachacademy.com

We are currently updating our communities of practice pages and would like to include a testimonial on each page from a student or graduate.  The testimonial must be niche specific (eg: Life, Spiritual, Executive, Business or Career etc) and describe how this particular niche has added value to their life and or existing skillset.  We will regularly update the page with new testimonials.

In summary, it should include:

• Your first and last name
• The country you live in
• Your enrolment and or accrediation status (graduate, student)
• Your preferred/chosen niche
• The top 3 things you enjoy/enjoyed most about your training at ICA
• Your top 3 learning outcomes from ICA’s CoP teleclasses or modules
• Describe your most memorable ICA experience
• What is your favourite ICA coaching tool?
• How did you get your first client?
• What are your plans for the future and how will you use your coaching skills?

If you would be interested in having your testimonial uploaded to our site, please email Sally Bridger, marketing@icoachacademy.com, and put the words, “CoP Testimonial” in the subject heading, and your testimonial in the body of the email.  If you have a photo you can attach, that would be fantastic.

Thank you!

As ICA’s wonderful global community continues to grow, we are constantly improving and adding to our representation in countries around the world.

As a result, we have now added an India web page, that is now live!

Click on the link below to hear Prabha’s welcome message and read testimonials from ICA graduates, Pooja Bhangar, Akash Chandar and Pradeep Mukerjee.

–> Visit India Web Page here

We would like to enlist your help to spread the word about coaching and help family, friends and associates create change in themselves, their work enviroment and their community.  As current students, you know first hand how wonderful this company is and how passionate we are about what we do.

We would like to ask for your assistance in giving ICA a bit of a boost. 

How can I help? Read more »

ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of our global team, Pin Hsuan Chen.

Pin-Hsuan joins ICA to head up our China team, and brings with her a wealth of experience. Additionally, Pin is a graduate of ICA and currently resides in Shanghai China. Please join together with us in welcoming Pin to the ICA community.

This is a very exciting time for ICA, as the date for the launch of our China program fast approaches.  Stay tuned for further details!

Read Pin’s Profile Below: Read more »

All changes outlined below will commence the week beginning Sunday, 15 March 2009

CoP Classes
ICA strives to provide a flexible curriculum which accommodates the needs and request of our students.  In keeping with this, we have decided to offer a CoP | Marketing class, which will replace the CoP | Business classes, that are currently offered.  This will provide students with the opportunity to not only learn more about marketing, but to share their marketing ideas, skills and tools.

Along with this, there has been a recent change to the CoP | Life classes on Monday’s, 3-4pm NY ET & Tuesday’s 9-10pm NY ET.  Previously these classes were facilitated by Bill Turpin, but are now facilitated by Merci Miglino.

In addition, there will also be a change to the schedule for these classes as follows:

CoP Marketing | Tuesday 8 - 9pm NY ET replaces,
CoP Business | Monday 9 - 10pm NY ET.

CoP Marketing | Monday 4 - 5pm NY ET replaces,
CoP Business | Monday 4 - 5pm NY ET.

FC100 Classes
Due to an ongoing demand for evening FC100 classes, we have decided to add and additional class on Tuesdays at 7pm.  This will replace a class that will be discontinued on Sunday’s at 4pm.

Here are the schedule changes for FC100:

FC100 | Time Option 11 | Sunday 4 - 5pm NY ET, moves to
FC100 | Time Option 11 | Tuesday 7 - 8pm NY ET

Please contact support@icoachacademy.com should you have any questions regarding these changes.

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