Sharpening the Skills of Your Trade

When was the last time you sharpened the skills of your trade, and picked up some new skills or approaches?

After going almost a year of applying my last learning, I've returned back to the seminar room myself in the last few weeks. I took a postively powerful program with Shadow Coach (TM) Donna Karlin last week here in Toronto. I first saw Donna speak back in 2005 at the ICF Global Conference and was intrigued with the Shadow Coach model, which includes real-time observational coaching with clients. It's an ideal model for environments which are really fast paced and dynamic or constantly changing - places such as the UN or Government or many corporations. I'm pleased to announce that I am now a Shadow Coach (TM) and am offering this as an additonal offering to my corporate clients. So rather than meeting with clients twice a month by phone, some of them can now have me come in and shadow them for several days at a time and engage in coaching in the pauses of the day.

You can find out more about the Shadow Coaching work that Donna does here or her training program for coaches here.

Another great offering is coming to Toronto in a few weeks - The Team Diagnostic Assessment. It will be offered here in Toronto from April 4 through 6th.

The Team Diagnostic Assessment™ is a state-of-the-art instrument, based on a proven model that defines the necessary strengths for high-performing, sustainable, and inspired teams. Participation in this rigorous training program leads to certification in the Team Diagnostic™ Assessment which authorizes the participant to deliver this comprehensive development tool for teams that identifies gaps in Productivity strengths and Positivity strengths and facilitates concrete action in order to create sustainable high performing teams. This program is unique in its systems approach to teams and in its coaching approach to the facilitation and ongoing guidance of teams. The model, assessment and delivery format are grounded in systems theory, emotional intelligence work, appreciative inquiry and leading academic research. The difference between this work and training is that it teaches the team to become response-able for their own behaviour as a team over time, resulting in sustainable change in team performance and results. Unlike other coaching approaches, relationship systems coaching views teams not as a collection of individuals, but as a self-organizing system of relationships and interacting influences all of which affect the performance and satisfaction of individuals and of the system as a whole. This creates breakthrough paradigm shifts in the way team members interact and how the team performs as a whole.

This course is for you if:
You’re a coach looking for a unique model and assessment to use with teams
You’re trained in ORSC (systems coaching) and want a complementary assessment tool and model to use with teams
You currently work with teams in a facilitation or consulting role and would like to learn a proven method for team development
You are a coach looking for a tool that will help you take your coaching into organizations
You are in HR or OD and looking for a model or assessment to bring in-house

For more information or to register contact Team Coaching International at http://www.teamcoachinginternational.com. You can find out more under Products and Team Diagnostic

What new skills and programs are you taking right now to sharpen your skills or add new ones to your toolkit?

Warm regards,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CPCC, CPT
Potentials Realized
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