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FREE PODINAR: Coaching at Capacity with Guest Chip Carter

August 3, 2018

SEPTEMBER PODINAR: COACHING AT CAPACITY

Learning in Action’s Live Monthly Podinar for Executive Coaches

FRI. SEPT. 28, 2018. 7:30-9:00 am PT / 10:30-12:00 noon ET

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COACHING AT CAPACITY
with guest Chip Carter, MTS
Senior Advisor at LeaderJam and Institute of Coaching

Join Chip Carter and Alison Whitmire, president of Learning in Action, for discussion and Q&A around how to think about your coaching capacity, how coaches can fill their capacity in a number of ways, how coaches can think about coaching at different price points.

In this presentation, we’ll cover questions like these:
– Should I reduce my rates to get more clients?
– Would I get more clients if I reduced my rate?
– How much time should I be spending on my existing clients versus finding new ones?
– What are all of the options for finding new clients?
– What would optimize my financial and other goals?
– How much coaching per week do I want to do and how can I fill my calendar to my chosen capacity?

Attendees will leave with their own answers to these questions, and more, so they can best coach to their own capacity.

*** Ask your questions when you register or during the live event. We’ll get to as many as we can! ***

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Chip Carter is a Senior Advisor, Strategy & Expert Network at LeaderJam. His expertise includes coaching, technology, business process, marketing.

ABOUT OUR PODINARS:
Learning in Action’s monthly podinars are moderated by Alison Whitmire, president of Learning in Action.
The intent of our podinars is to support executive coaches:
• To provide the best coaching possible for their clients
• To make a thriving, successful living as professional coaches

ABOUT LEARNING IN ACTION:
We offer individuals, teams, and organizations effective tools and methods for enhancing Emotional Intelligence in relationship, in conflict, in real-time. Serving leadership development professionals and executive coaches worldwide.

– THIS PODINAR WILL BE RECORDED. REGISTRANTS RECEIVE RECORDING and notice of future podinars.

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Special FREE Podinar: Unlearning Coaching: Challenging ‘The Rules’ to Do More of What We Love

June 13, 2018

Please join us for a special podinar:

Unlearning Coaching: Challenging ‘the Rules’ to Do More of What We Love,
presented by Alison Whitmire, PCC and President of Learning in Action.

TUES JULY 31, 2018. 

8:00 am  – 9:00 am PT / 11:00-12:00 noon ET

Session will be recorded

REGISTER HERE.

How could challenging some of the dogma of coaching actually help you get more coaching clients? How could reframing some of the principles we’ve all been taught as coaches actually allow you to help your clients more? How could asking more of your clients help you create a coaching practice that fully fits your life?

 

Join us for this engaging podinar (combination podcast/webinar) in which we’ll explore how to create a coaching practice we want, and love the coaching practice we create.

In this Podinar, We’ll Explore:

  • Who you can/should coach
  • How to ‘sell’ your coaching services
  • How to grow your practice
  • How to coach outside the box
  • How to bring more of yourself to your coaching

You will leave with ideas of what you want to rethink or unlearn to grow your practice by tapping more deeply into your own innate uniqueness.

 

*** Ask your questions when you register or during the live event. We’ll get to as many as we can! ***

YAY! THIS PODINAR WILL BE RECORDED. ONLY REGISTRANTS RECEIVE RECORDING.

 

Psst…What’s a podinar? A podinar combines the best parts of a podcast and a webinar. You’ll listen in on a fascinating interview with a seasoned coach, be able to engage and interact by asking questions of our presenter and audience.

*** Ask your questions when you register or during the live event. We’ll get to as many as we can. ***

 

We hope you’ll join us!

Alison Whitmire, PCC

President, Learning in Action

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER: Alison Whitmire

Alison Whitmire is president of Learning in Action. Alison is a PCC, certified and credentialed Executive Coach to CEOs. She is a professional speaker, TEDx organizer, and weekly blogger.

ABOUT OUR PODINARS:

Learning in Action’s podinars are moderated by Alison Whitmire, president of Learning in Action.

The intention of our podinars is to support anyone who works in a coaching role supporting others:

  • To provide the best coaching possible
  • To make a thriving, successful living
  • To embrace their innate uniqueness

ABOUT LEARNING IN ACTION:

We offer individuals, teams, and organizations effective tools and methods for enhancing Emotional Intelligence in relationship, in conflict, in real-time. Serving leadership development professionals and executive coaches worldwide.

YAY! THIS PODINAR WILL BE RECORDED. ONLY REGISTRANTS RECEIVE RECORDING. So REGISTER NOW, whether or not you can attend live. The day following the event, watch for an email with a link to the recorded podinar.

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Who You Are is How You Coach

March 9, 2018

 

 

 

How did an idea – encountered during a dialogue – move coaching beyond competencies and skills?

It was during a conversation 17 years ago that Edna Murdoch, co-founder of the Coaching Supervision Academy, happened upon an idea that Who you are is how you coach!


It’s All About The Client, Right?!

For those who were taught that the coach is never part of the picture – “It’s all about the client.” – this can be quite surprising. Who I am influences how I coach? Really?

I can easily answer who I am: I’m a Master Certified Coach (MCC), a coach educator and I’ve been coaching since at least 1990. I have a name, an address, a social security number, a degree or two; and I’m an ENFP – that’s who I am. At one level, yes.

What Edna was, and is, talking about is more complex: the nuance of how I coach is subtle stuff. It is not only my credentials, my experience, my validated competencies or what it says on my website.

Coaching is not simply a set of techniques, though techniques are important. It is not a set of preplanned transactions, though there are transactions between coach and client.

Coaching is an exchange, an interaction, a dance between two human beings who have experiences, pressures, hopes, dreams, biases, preferences, styles, personalities, patterns… The list goes on and on.

These factors shape who is interacting with the client from moment to moment and session by session throughout a coaching engagement. Who I am at a given moment is how I coach. (more…)

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Must I Ask and Never Tell: A Discussion with MCC Coaches

February 14, 2018


What’s a podinar?
 A podinar combines the best parts of a podcast and a webinar. You’ll listen in on a fascinating interview of Master Certified Coaches and be able to interact, asking questions of panelists and engaging with the audience.

Join us for this 90-minute podinar, and hear our panel of expert executive coaches debate questions on topics like these:

  • Where did the idea that “the client has all the answers” come from?
  • Is there a “right” way to give advice? If so, what is it?
  • What does it mean to partner with your client?
  • What makes getting an MCC so hard? Why are there so few of them?
  • Do you ever get to a place in coaching where you don’t know what to do?
  • And, of course, answer your own questions.

Why this podinar? Because no one talks about these topics. And because of the flood of animated responses to our “Must I Ask and Never Tell” blog.

Plus,

We want to support coaches in providing the best coaching possible for their clients, and so they can make a thriving, successful living as professional coaches.

Join our moderator and a panel of four expert MCC coaches, including some who helped shape ICF:

Moderator: 
Alison Whitmire, president, Learning in Action

Panelists:
Amy Ruppert, MCC, The Integreship Group
Pamela Richarde, MCC, InnerVision Enterprises
Peter Reding, MCC, Coach For Life
Terrie Upshur-Lupberger, MCC, Altus Growth Partners

Have a question you’d like our panelists to answer during the podinar? Ask in the space provided when you register, or you can ask during the live podinar.
 

All registrants receive a link to the recording after the event!


Hope to see you there, 
– Team Learning in Action

 

 

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