Mentor Coaching for your IAC Coaching Certificate

The IAC Coaching Masteries™

1. Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust
2. Perceiving, affirming and expanding the client’s potential
3. Engaged listening
4. Processing in the present
5. Expressing
6. Clarifying
7. Helping the client set and keep clear intentions
8. Inviting possibility
9. Helping the client create and use supportive systems and structures

If you are looking for Coach Bonnie as your Mentor Coach, please write to bonnie@coachlite.com

See whether our goals are matching?

I have a goal to mentor coaching :

10 executive coaches via IAC Coaching Masteries
10 life coaches via PCA Coaching Alliance

If you are interested to let me helping you to achieve your coaching dream, please email me at bonnie@coachlite.com

Executive Coaching - Who should hire me?

• You should have completed a basic coaching training program and have real or buddy coaching experiences.
• I wont teach coaching, instead I mentor you to master IAC Coaching Materies to perform and excel your coaching services as a masterful coach.
• Concurrently, you will be ready to apply for the IAC Certification Test 1 and 2.

Briefing Meeting : 2 Feb 2008 at Room 603, B&G, Wan Chai.

Program :

“Prepare for the IAC Certification Test 2 Practicum" Retreat (3 Days 2 Nights) in Zhong Shan, China.

Date : 7-9 March 2008, Place : 中山雅居樂長江酒店 (90 min ferry from HK)
Participants are limited to 9 (full)

To put your name on the wait list, please email to Katherine Lo at lo_katherine18@yahoo.com

The IAC Coaching Masteries is the intellectual property of the Association of Coaching. http://www.certifiedcoach.org/

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Life Coaching - Who should hire me?

• You should have completed a basic coaching training program and have real or buddy coaching experiences.
• I wont teach coaching, instead I mentor you to master the ParentCoach REAP Model to organize and conduct coaching classes for parents who wants to become ParentCoach.
• Concurrently, you will be eligable to use PCA coaching material under licensee agreement.

Informal Briefing Meeting : YMCA coffee shop, Middle Street, Tsimshatsui on 4 Oct at 6:30pm

Program :

“PCA Train the Trainer” Program Retreat (3 Days 2 Nights) in Zhong Shan, China.
Date : 18-20 Jan 2008
Place : 中山雅居樂長江酒店 (90 min ferry from HK)

Participants are limited to 11 (full)

see our further development here.

Who were/are Coach Bonnie's mentor coaches?

I learnt my coaching from Coachville by enrolling their Graduate School of Coaching 1,000 hours life-time membership where I have completed almost 400 hours of learning covering 15 Proficiencies, Executive Coaching, Corporate Coach, Mentor Coaching and Marketing.

Through out my coaching learning and profession since 2001, I learn, I practice and I always hire mentor coach for myself. Why? This is how coaching helps me to excelling my potential and moving towards my goal(s) faster with success. Who were/are my mentor coaches?

1. Angela Spaxman (HK) : Before I decided to seriously stepping in to coaching learning and preparing for my future coaching profession, I hired Angela as my executive coach. Through my personal experience in receiving coaching, I understand what is coaching, why it is essential for corporate executives in both their personal and corporate development, how to coach and how to be coached, what are the tricky areas and etc.

2. Sarah Newton (UK) : After I learnt coaching, I need to pursue coaching in a more professional way by knowing how to design coaching material, structure coaching workshops and further build my coaching presence and being on top of the basic skill set. I hired Sarah as my mentor coach on my daily practicing and later on how to packaging coaching projects.

3. Steve Davis (USA) : In my practices, I do 1 on 1 coaching and group workshops. I, therefore, hired Steve to be my mentor coach in learning facilitation. Steve has put me on to another level of effective communication via writing and blogging.

4. Mike Cohen (USA) : I understand personal development is very important as a coach. Thus, coach is a life learner. I have chosen my unique area of interest in Eco-Psychology. Mike is my mentor professor in my Master degree study. He is currently still supervising my PhD degree study for the dissertation about Eco-Coaching.

5. Barbra Sunquist (Canada) : I was not satisfied myself as a professional coach, I want to provide masterful coaching services to my clients and keep on value-adding myself for excelling coaching in China. Barbra was my mentor coach in helping me to walk through the IAC Certification and drilling my 15 Proficiencies in to masterful level.

6. Catherine Miller (Canada) : My current mentor coaching buddy. We exchange mentor coaching to each other. Catherine is always helping me in expanding my horizon in coaching prospective, pointing out my blind spot and self-limitation and inspiring my potential for further development.

My next targetted mentor coach is Dave Buck........

I invest my time, effort and money in assisting current leaders and building future leaders through coaching.

If you ask, the answer is there.

Though I am the only bi-lingual Chinese IAC-CC certified coach as of today in May 2007, I have a dream to be part of the team in realizing IAC's plan in multi-language certification. With the approval of IAC Board of Governors, I am permitted to translate the IAC Coaching Masteries in to Chinese and Japanese.

Up to Sep 2007, I have already finished the first draft for the Chinese version. With the requirement from the IAC Board of Governors, I am now in the stage of reversing my Chinese version in to English and testing its correctness and fine tuning the nuances of some cultrual differences.

As the second stage in reviewing the first draft in to a progressing draft, I need people who are currently practising as coaches in any walks with a high proficiency in both English and Chinese languages to work with me.

I threw this question in a recently HKICC PD Meeting where I shared my IAC Certification Journey. I got responses from Summer Chan, a life coach who translated the HKICC code of ethics from English in to Chinese and Tan Chew Yan, an executive coach who has over 12 years of professional English/Chinese translation experience on top of her coaching practices.

If you ask, the answer is there. Let me roll on.

Please stay tuned on the progress.

On 11th Nov 2007, the completed Chinese translation was sent to IAC headquarter. Upon IAC's formal precedure in approving and endorsing the document, we hope to see it on the IAC website in early 2008. We are also taking the boldness to asking IAC also to consider having Test 1 in Chinese. If yes, our voluntary team are ready for further contribution for the translation.

Why Mentor Coaches are in Need?

1.What is Coach Mentoring/Supervision?

Coach Mentoring/Supervision is a formal and protected time for facilitating in depth reflection for coaches to discuss their work with someone who is experienced in coaching. Mentoring/Supervision offers a confidential framework within a collaborative working relationship in which the practice, tasks, process and challenges of the coaching work can be explored. The primary aim of mentoring and supervision is to enable the coach to gain in ethical competency, confidence and creativity so as to ensure best possible service to the coaching client (individuals, organisations, professional associations). It is important that mentoring/supervision is not perceived as, or in actuality is, a ‘policing’ role, but rather as a trusting and, wherever possible, co-colleague professional relationship.

2. Why Coach Mentoring/Supervision is essential for the practising coach

Competent practice with regular monitoring and reviewing of one’s work is essential to maintain and sustain good practice. Therefore mentoring/supervision is an opportunity to recognise the ‘human element’ and subsequent demands of the coaching work on the coach, to ensure we monitor and uphold non exploitative relationships with clients and to recognise our limits and work within them. It is a place to expand our emotional intelligence, gain support, relate practice to theory, develop new learning, and evolve coaching practice (continuing professional development).Overall, coach mentoring/supervision is essential both to develop the coach's professional skills and to maintain excellent standards of coaching in the industry.

3. The Benefits of Coach Mentoring/Supervision

The primary concern of the coach mentor/supervisor is to ensure that the coach is addressing the needs of the client as well as monitoring the relationship between the coach and client to maximise its effectiveness. In addition, coach mentoring/supervision is a way of ensuring that ethical standards are adhered to throughout the coaching process. The key benefits are summarised as follows:

Accountability and Protection
• ensuring the best interests of the client are being upheld
• for the organisation purchasing services
• for the coach Development
• opportunity to monitor client work and develop existing/new skills in a supportive environment
• responding constructively to feedback helps to advance practice • opportunity for coach’s personal development Ethical Standards
• to ensure that the coaching work is applied ethically and effectively
• recognise ethical diversity by considering values, principles and personal qualities

Source: Coach Mentoring and Supervision

My Dream in mentoring local coaches to get certified and be masterful in their services

I have a dream to help local coaches to get the IAC international certification. It could be worked in below Phases:

Phase 1
To mentor Chinese speaking local coaches through practicum to prepare for the English certification for either the the 15 proficiencies (until Dec 2007) or the 9 Masteries. (Coaches Selene, Pandora and Julia have hired Coach Bonnie be their mentor coach. All of them have passed Test 1 and Julia is getting close to submit her Test 2 coaching recordings before end of 2007.)

Phase 2
To participate in the IAC multi-language certification project in initiating a group of bi-langual coaches to translate the 9 Masteries in to Chinese and Japanese. (The Chinese IAC Coaching Masteres has completed translation and submitted to IAC headquarter for review on 11th Nov 2007.)

Phase 3
To become a Certifier of IAC Certificaion team to examine Chinese and Japanese recordings for certificaiton. (Coach Bonnie has applied to become the Certifier in Training and passed IAC requirement and interview from the Certifying Board in Nov 2007.)

If you have interest to join with me to realize the dream, please email me at bonnie@coachlite.com.

Coaching Being

Personal Freedom in Coaching Being

Abstract:
“Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client” and “Establish and Maintain relationship of Trust” are listed on the first line of the 11 Competence of ICF and the 9 Masteries of IAC respectively. Barbra Sunquist has categorized Thomas Leonard’s #4, #7, #9, #10, #13 and #15 of the 15 Proficiencies to align with the 1st Mastery of IAC.

Back to 2002, I had an impression that whoever wants to become a coach, most of them must attend the “Personal Foundation” and the “Personal Freedom” courses offered by CoachU and Coachville respectively. I took the “Personal Freedom” course which is considered as the short form of “Personal Foundation”. The course beneficiary a lot to my personal development that may be so called as “Coaching Being” I refer herewith.

So far in Hong Kong, I only found Angela Spaxman and Jaime Simpson offered the “Personal Foundation” program back in year 2002-2005. I offered twice the “Personal Freedom” Teleclass in Hong Kong and in addition two workshops in Guangzhou and Shenzhen in 2004-2006. I suspect there may be some new coaches are taking the said courses directly with CoachU and Coachville. Yet, most of the intensive coaching programs in the market are focused on coaching skill, coaching structure and coaching business than personal development. As a result, I see some of the coaches are more like a trainer than a coach for their absence of the Coaching Being or Coaching Presence.

I, therefore, have a thought to package the “Personal Freedom” course focally for coaches in building their Coaching Beings.

The 10 Pillars of Personal Freedom in Coaching Being:

1. Extend your boundaries in Coaching in order to maximize your capacity.
2. Share your requirements in Coaching so others and your environment will be able to respond appropriately.
3. Raise your standards in Coaching to bring out your best.
4. Finish what is unfinished in Coaching so that the past is completed and nothing is hanging on.
5. Get your personal needs met in Coaching so that you are free to be fully with other people and ideas.
6. Orient around your values in Coaching to create a sustainable base for goal-setting.
7. Build reserves in all areas in Coaching in order to expand your capacities and minimize limits.
8. Minimize tolerations in Coaching in order to absence drains.
9. Handle your money in Coaching completely. Period.
10. Define success on your terms in Coaching so that your benchmarks and accomplishments make sense to you and are easy to recognize.

Passing Rate is much higher for coaches Hiring a Mentor Coach for the Certification

My Mentor Coach for the IAC Certification has done a simple passing rate survey in Mid 2006 and said:

"The BACC pass rate is nearly three times the IAC average. As you may know, only 25% of people who submit recordings for Step 2 of IAC certification pass on their first try. Of the seven BACC members who have done Step 2, five have passed with flying colors on their first try. That's a 70% pass rate."

SharingCertificationJourney.com

Six IAC Certified coaches joined together and wrote an ebook for coaches who are keen for international ceritification.

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Are you going for IAC certification?

This ebook gives you a chance to hear six IAC certified coaches give authentic and open answers to these and many other questions:

• Did you choose 'recordees' who were a fit for you? Please share your awareness of how some clients brought out the best in you - or didn't.


• Would you say your coaching improved/got worse/changed as a result of your certification journey?


• How did you know you were ready to start making tapes?


• If there were two nuggets you'd love to pass on to someone going for certification, what would they be?


• Can you suggest a useful tool/structure/aid/thought for critiquing potential submission tapes?


• Could you share three of your favourite coaching statements/ questions/techniques?


• Do you have a coaching structure for 30 minute calls which you could briefly summarise?

source: http://www.sharingcertificationjourney.com/

How do some of the HK Coaches see the IAC Certification?

1. Are you receiving IAC Newsletter VOICE currently? (If yes, you are a Newsletter subscriber.)

• Yes (3)
• Not currently. May be I am not a paid member now. (1)

2. Are you currently a IAC paid member? (You require an annual membership fee for US$129 from 1/1/2007)

• No (3)
• will renew within 2 days (1)

3. Did you pass IAC STEP 1 Test?

• Yes (3)
• No (1)

4. Do you still have interest to pursue IAC STEP 2 Test?

• Yes (4) one with note says, "Yes, of course, but I need to do it later when my time allows me as I still have a full time job and some other engagement at present.

5. So far what has been holding you from move on to STEP 2 Test?

• No time - too busy at work; insufficient coaching practice based on IAC proficiencies; no clients - need ideally 3 English speaking coaches who agree the coaching conversation can be recorded.
• language and 需要一些指引和辅导，还有不是很清晰通过的条件是什么。(translation: require some guidance and assistance. Also the requirement of the PASSED is not clear.)
• Time element.
• not passing step 1 and need to hand in English tapes

6. What kind of support will be helpful to you in taking STEP 2 Test and get certified?

• Group practices to receive feedback on coaching proficiencies; more IAC proficiency teleclasses offered during our non-bed-time hours!
• 个人化的指引和辅导，并且更加清晰通过的条件是什么 (translation: Require mentorship, also clear guidance on what is a PASS.)
• Someone just like you who has experienced Step 2 and already passed to share their successful experience (e.g. to do or not to do list if any)
• need mentor coaching

7. Does IAC certification a valuable recognition in your coaching business or career path?

• Yes (4) with notes saying, "Yes, definitely, but due to current workload, will start after Mid 2008" and "Yes, of course - it's an int'l recognized institution."

8. Any other suggestions.

• Certification for coaching conducted in local languages. otherwise, tips on how we can get some English speaking coachees.
• 暂时没有。(translation: not at this moment.)
• To explore if IAC could establish a network in Asia.
• It will be great if Cantonese tapes will be accepted in Step 2.

Thanks for the above coaches' feedback and I have already writtenspeak up on behalf of some local Hong Kong coaches whose native language is Chinese.

Before and After the IAC Certification

Before and After the certification I still do coaching. Then, why we care about the certification. Here are some of the impact I have experienced:

• I spent 8 months for my certification process and it was the most impact and advanced learning I ever had after my completion of the Coachville SOC program.
• I started full time coaching in 2003 and at the beginning none of my clients (most from referral) asked about whether I am certified or not. However, when the coaching benefit is getting well admitted by the corporates in Hong Kong, my new corporate clients and consultant partners are always asking this question. Moreover, they are very curiose to ask me about what is IAC and ICF as an informaiton for them to set the standard when hiring new coaches.
• As soon as I was certified, I was asked what and how is that about because my fellow coaches are interested in doing same for themselves. Soon, I was hired as their mentor coach and they passed Test 1 in 2 months and have already began to recording coaching sessions in English for test 2 submission.
• After I put my IAC-CC title on my usual coaches listing in the HKICC website, I got more enquiries from global coaching and consulting firms looking for partnership with me. Their focus are more on leadership and mentoring role of their current or future base in Hong Kong, China and even Asia. I felt an upgraded as an international coach.
• I was invited by IAC to become their member of governor in pursuing their project about the international multi-languages certification. It's my great honor for representing from Asia.
• I was invited by HKICC to speak at their Professional Development Meeting to sharing my IAC Certification Journey.
• I received very encouraging support from my fellow coaches in realizing the Chinese Certification dream.
• My international coaching network has been expanding day by day where I could learn the most up to date coaching news.
• I got my first CEO coaching contract from China with a Chinese listed local company.
• I got repeated contract from PCCW.
• Without touching too much on this and my income is increasing........

Certified Coach - Bonnie Chan, IAC-CC

需求具潛力 教練行業多元化

在歐美，不少大企業的老闆、行政和銷售人員，甚至家庭主婦都會聘請教練來啟導他們，故此這行業發展頗為蓬勃。今天，教練行業的發展更見多元化，除了較熟悉的「企業教練」和「人生教練」外，還有「青少年教練」、「父母教練」和「商業教練」等。

以教練模式協助別人發揮潛能和給予指導，在歐美十分流行，這種模式結合了管理學和心理學，其獨特之處在於透過相處，讓教練看到別人的盲點，從而產生新領悟。

結合培訓發展生意 現時，教練行業在香港仍不太流行，以此為全職的人也不多，反而不少人是結合培訓（Training）來發展生意。他們一方面為企業員工提供技能和知識上的培訓，另一方面也為企業高層提供教練服務。

香港大學專業進修學院「個人發展教練基礎證書」課程導師熊淑宜說：「教練不一定比顧客聰明，因為教練的角色主要是幫助顧客在『行為』、『信念』、『情緒』這三個層面達到和諧，只要幫助他們解決了個人內在的衝突，便能更有效地處理外在的問題，提升各方面的表現。」
她認為，教練所具備的特質主要集中在性格上，例如對人和事包容性大，經常保持中立，願意聆聽，並洞察對方語言背後的潛在信息，以及掌握教練的技巧。

「一人一教練」成目標

在香港，要成為教練並不需要考牌，但為了確保行業的專業性，早在01年已有一群從事教練工作的人士走在一起，成立了香港專業教練協會（Hong Kong Coaching Community）。其主席Bonnie Chan表示，教練行業在香港和內地正逐步發展，雖然現在渴求教練的主要是大企業或中產階層，但隨著社會結構日趨複雜，估計市場對教練的需求會增多。她期望有朝一日能做到「一人一教練」。

收費可望下調

現時，「人生教練」（Life Coach）的薪酬每小時約港幣800至1,500元，而「行政人員教練」（Executive Coach）則是3,000至5,000元。有說教練行業未能普及的原因之一是由於收費貴，Bonnie表示，這乃見仁見智。
「有人願意花差不多的價錢於美容和保健上，令自己更健康漂亮，也有人願意花錢請教練調節個人思維，提升個人表現，這表示每個人有不同的取向。教練費的高低，在於個人的價值觀。」但Bonnie也希望，當教練行業進一步普及，相關的收費可以下調。
此外，近年隨著城市發展更迅速、更複雜，洐生的社會現象愈來愈層出不窮，教練行業的發展因而更多元化。

「Coaching最初只有『人生教練』和『企業教練』等，但今天已增加了『父母教練』、『青少年教練』和『商業教練』等，在日本，更有以指導婆媳關係的『婆媳教練』，相信未來會更有多不同類型的教練出現，以迎合都市人的需要。」
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美國教練認證 在美國，由於教練行業發展蓬勃，故此有不同組織推出相關的認證，部分的要求更相當嚴謹。 以International Coach Federation（ICF）為例，要成為該會的Professional Certified Coach（PCC），必須接受125小時訓練，並擁有750小時的實習經驗；若要成為Master Certified Coach（MCC），更要接受200小時訓練，並擁有2,500小時的實習經驗。現時本港有不少教練也擁有以上的資格。
參考網址：www.coachfederation.org/eweb/
Source: Recruit Online