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Chapter approved to issue Continuing Coach Education Units (CCEU)
You may earn ICF CCEU credits and get a certificate just by attending our local meetings. Specially designated meetings can be used to fulfill the renewal, education and training requirements. Learn more

To view ICF Coaches Take a Stand status click here Credentialing Lunch and Learn" Video December 4th, 2009 ICF Conference watch full video on
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CCEU1.0 CEU for each designed meeting!..

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Welcome to our local community of Coaching PODs in South, Southwest, and Central Florida
LAUNCH EVENT Join us to see Avatar in Ft. Lauderdale or Orlando. Join in to establish Points Of Discussion (PODs) and for these informative Conversations in Florida. Become a Compass Ambassador and host one in your city (at a local Panera, Perkins, Denny's or favorite restaurant?) Orlando, Ft. Myers, West Palm, Vero, Boca, Ft. Lauderdale and more.Let's team up and invent the future of coaching. Start a POD event now, just pick a place, time, topic (e.g. coaching book review) click here...
Focus on Your Dream - Expand Your Horizons!
Let's face it, if you have coach training under your belt or considering getting certified. Your next step is to get the tools to keep your business honed. New and experienced coaches alike, come share and learn how to build a thriving coaching business and become a more competent coach. Get involved now, consider joining a task oriented team and your opportunity to create our local coaching community. Get in on the fun, balance, flexibility, while making connections and a difference!

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE is on! Click here to download Application Please
specify the South Florida - Miami area Chapter as your chapter affiliation in your profile at ICF.

:: Professional and Community building Meetings ::

Let's go to the movies and talk!January 29, 2010 this Friday, Ft. Laud AND Orlando 3:45PM

The Matrix movie played on sense of maybe reality isn’t real. Movies in the 90s managed to break through into real life to what is real and tactile. In the 2010 movie Avatar, now only by going into a make-believe world can we really fulfill our potential and rewrite history. Will we start hungering for our virtual selves? Kick start a conversation, join us to watch Avatar and afterwards discuss over dinner restaurant (within walking distance) the new frontier in our own minds. (Meal etc. costs on your own). No meeting fee just pay your own way (movie $13 + parking, food etc.); no CCEUs awarded or meeting fees will be collected. Open to all, family too. LOCATIONs: IMAX 3d @ 401 SW 2nd Street, Ft. Lauderdale 33312 and Regal Orlando Pointe Theatre, International Drive, Orlando Tickets: $13.00 (includes recyclable 3-D glasses) Presold phone cc sales reservation IMAX call box office directly for Ft. Lauderdale showing at 954-713-0930. $2. service fee applied to phone orders. Parking: <$12. public garage on 5th Avenue. Ft. Lauderdale. The FUN is free. For Orlando contact A. English (407) 697-5255 or Ft. Laud. D. Rivers 305.385.7777 for more information.

"AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home."

Feb. 7-13 International Coach Week - Spread the (written) word
Read a book on coaching and share in a book review discussion. The members of our area chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF) will offer free coaching sessions in honor of International Coaching Week.

Feb. 20 "The Bigger Game"
with Rick Tamlyn in Orlando FL $107.pp 1pm - 5pm
The Bigger Game is an innovation model – designed to change and challenge you, and to call you forth to be your very best. Playing a Bigger Game moves you forward with creating the life you want! Rick Tamlyn, co-founder of The Bigger Game, as well as the co-author of the successful book “The Bigger Game: Why Playing a Bigger Game Designs Who You Want to Become” will be presenting this training.
Interested in details? Click here and let us know please

March ?? 2010 Wicked! on stage - the answer is within!
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Come join us at Prelude BartonG restaurant and the Broadway show Wicked at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Visit http://www.arshtcenter.org/prelude/ for meal info. Click here and advise your preference of a $30. lunch & matinee or $50. dinner and 8PM performance; Fri., Sat., or Sun.?? by Feb. 14th click...
Tickets and meal on your own, no meeting fee and the FUN is free.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for "the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time"(USA Today).

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April 2010 Coach Enrichment Institute (CEI) program:

Scratch Your Niche open to ICF Miami Chapter members only. Half day workshop. FOCUS ON YOUR DREAM–The Business Side of Coaching and EXPAND YOUR HORIZION

Summer 2010 HR Summit
Join six major Human Resource organizations in the area for opportunities and seminars. Followed up the next month with a Coach orientation meeting.

NEWS AND REPORTS::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Congratulation to ICF Chapter Credentialed Coaches in 2009 Barbara Hauser, PCC
Steve Kullback, PCC
Deborah Rivers, PCC
Mark Kram, ACC
Did you get ICF credentialed? Let us know.

Congratulations to ICF conference exhibitor door prize winners:
Lucy Ridgeway - Coachville course
Deborah Rivers - Reach Personal Brand Strategist course
(total value over $6,000.00!) Chapter among top 18 at ICF 2009 Conference - 21 people attended.

Annual Strategic Planning Retreat held January 16, 2010.
What would you like to get out of your chapter membership? What project would you like to see happen? Where and when and in what format would you like meetings to have? What would you like to be your take away? What would you like to volunteer to do be a champion of? click here and let us know

Certification Just Got Closer: Class of Feb. 2010 Bobette Reader is instrumental in helping the University of Miami Continuing Ed launch their 60 hour "Proficient Coach Certificate" program started in September 2009 and taught by MCCs. Members saved thousand$$$$.

June 2009 the first annual HR Summit was resounding success. Coaching is hot and our expo booth was one of the busiest. The ICF has been invited back for a seat at the table planning for next years Summit. For more information on the event, click here.

ICF Member pilot project: Hands on Miami & C-ONE Coaching alliance MatchUp event held with 20 CEOs of nonprofit's attending. The focus was on creating awareness of professional coaching.

Hard Truths for Hard Times ICF Chapter President, Deborah Rivers teamed up with Bennett Taylor, ASTD President to address this timely topic on February 18th. It was a great coaching awareness builder and educational event for the ASTD membership.

Feb. 2009 the Miami area chapter and the ICF refreshes their websites.

 

Dreams on the Horizon Chapter 2009-2010 Initiative:
FOCUS ON YOUR DREAM–The Business Side of Coaching and
EXPAND YOUR HORIZIONS–Mastering Coaching Competencies. Virtual
Education Meeting Calls

New enhanced global ICF Virtual Education calls. CCEUs are available.

Our ICF Chapter members are invited to attend these upcoming Virtual Education Calls. Non-ICF (global) members may also attend these calls for a fee. Information on how non-members may participate is available at http://www.coachfederation.org/research-education/virtual-education/faqs  More information on each call is available on the ICF Event Calendar. more... 

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In a 2006 industry survey conducted by Whorton Marketing & Research and Mariner Management & Marketing, found that more than 40% of survey respondents indicate, in essence, that the chapter's presence has a positive effect on their likely future renewal in the sense that, if chapters did not exist, they would be less likely to participate. Support ours now.
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Membership drive is on. ALSO WANTED: Committed people to serve on the Board and assist at meetings - let us know your specific interest and qualifications here. || Call for dynamic, informative, and entertaining meeting speakers. Submit interest here.

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Ethics Code Revised. The ICF is the leader in developing a definition and philosophy of coaching, as well as, establishing a set of ethical standards that ICF members pledge to uphold. Click here to download the December 2008 revised edition. Special local meeting this past May to address any concerns..

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Did you know that 96.2 percent of respondents in the ICF 2009 Global Coaching Client Study said they would repeat their coaching experience?
ICF 2008 Annual Report- to download at no charge click here.

This and all other findings from the landmark ICF Global Coaching Client Study Final Report are now available for purchase from ICF. You can also download your Executive Report Summary - membership copy now from the Reports section of the ICF Research Portal. From late September through November 2008, 2,165 coaching clients from 64 countries responded to the client survey. ICF members will receive a special discounted price ($75 USD versus the non-member price of $275 USD). View a sample copy of the entire report at the next meeting.

The Road to ICF Credentials

Download 1 page requirements overview, click here. May be subject to change. Check with the ICF for latest requirements.

3rd Friday Series during Fall, Winter, and Spring months.
11:30am to 1:30pm (Networking mixer 11:30 - 11:45)
Jan 2010 location: Hyatt in Coral Gables, click here for map

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Benefits of an ICF Credential:

  • Enhances your credibility and reassures potential clients that you are an experienced and professional coach
  • Demonstrates that you have high professional standards
  • Demonstrates that you stand by a strong code of ethics
  • Demonstrates a high knowledge and skill level
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  • Reinforces the integrity of the coaching profession nationally and internationally
 
 
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