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IN THIS ISSUE Issue 1: Jan - Feb 2011 A Year of Consolidation, Expansion & Education Membership 2011 & Beyond New Kids on the Block Join our Coach Referral Service & Coach Buddy Network 2nd AGM & Networking 1st Roundtable Meet: NLP in Coaching MACC Networking Community Member's Article Contribution - A Survival's Toolkit in 2011  MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED COACHES No 62, 2nd Floor, Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur Phone: +603 26054488 Mobile: +0162786677 (Bob) Fax: +603 6211 2812 Email: Click here We are on the Web! www.malaysiancoaches.com CHECKLIST TO BE A GREAT COACH How many of these do you have? Aware and live by your values Always learning to be better than what you are Have a vision and is forward looking in your life Enthusiastically optimistic, adaptable and flexible outside your comfort zone Responsible and action-oriented Acts like a leader, who is ahead of yourself Genuine , trustworthy and is well-respected Courageous and forthright Humble and caring  WHAT’S COMING? 2nd AGM Date: 26 Feb 2011 Time: 0930 - 1300 hours Venue: MACC's Office e-Roundtable: NLP in Coaching through SKYPE Date: 2nd half of Feb 2011 (actual date will be confirmed later) To register, please send an email to contact@malaysiancoaches.com   Peer Coaching Hours & Experience For ICF Certification Worry no more, if you are looking  for a colleague or coachee to coach or be coached. Click here for details.   UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Coach Refresher Program: Coaching Power Tools  4-5 Mar 2011 Just RM600 to update your coaching knowledge & skills. Totally new curriculum and learning methods. For details, call CCA at 03 20709988 to register, or log in to the CCA website. Venue for All Workshops: Dorsett Regency Hotel, Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur LOGGING IN YOUR 750 COACHING HOURS MACC is your best platform to gain your coaching hours. Whether it is 750 hours as required by ICF or 7500 hours required by any "out of space" coaching body, you can earn this fairly quickly as MACC members.  Here are some tips: a) Contact any of the Student Coaches or Student Coachees Work out with each other a peer coaching arrangement where both of you can mutually gain coaching hours from each other. Remember, there are almost 50 of us now, all with the same shared goal of becoming ICF credentialed coaches. There is so much common ground for us to gain the highest coaching credentials in the world. So, waste no time. b) Be an Associate Professional Coach (APC) Once you succeed in getting this APC status from CCA, your coaching hours will keep rolling in. Either it is through mentor coaching where CCA has a constant supply of coach students taking its programs, or getting coaching assignments that may come along the way from time to time. This credential will give you added 'ammunition' to get more coaching clients for more $$$ and coaching hours.  For more details call Josephine at 03-26054488 or email her at josephineong@corporate-coach.com.     HAVE A QUESTION OR AN IDEA FOR US? We need your brains.   Help make MACC and the Coaching Loop something we can be even more proud about. Have a question, comment, tip or something to share with MACC Members? Click here to send your email. Share this  eNEWSLETTER with your friends Share |

A Year of Consolidation, Expansion & Education I take this opportunity to wish you one and all a great 2011 as we enter the threshold of a new decade which poses another challenging time ahead. MACC, Coaching Loop and many of our pioneer members are also 1 year older this month.  Much have been learned and experienced in this one year as we soldiered on to lead the Coaching industry in this region. Despite the long festive season in November and December 2010, the Executive Committee somehow found the reserved energy to meet and deliberate on our past activities and plan for the new year. We asked ourselves this powerful coaching question, “What more do we need to do to be a truly standard bearer of coaching in this region? Three major areas of need stand out strongly, namely, Consolidation, Expansion & Education. Why Consolidation?  Because we need to tighten and enhance all our current activities and procedures by harnessing our collective professionalism and efficiency. Why Expansion?  Because MACC will be spreading its wings to other cities and towns in Malaysia. Why Education?  Because MACC’s key activities will be aligned to turning more of you into global ICF-credentialed coaches!    All these will be soon unveiled. We are excited and we trust you too will be as we journey together into a new horizon of opportunities and experiences - always aspiring to be coaches of excellence. Enjoy reading your first issue of the Coaching Loop for 2011! Bob Lim President of MACC & Editor-in-Chief . Membership Membership 2011 & Beyond We want to thank all of you who have renewed your memberships, with many opting for a 2-year membership, and 3 going for life membership!  We take it as an expression of confidence you have in MACC.  To date, here are the members of MACC family: Life membership (3 members) 1. Hj Abdul Rani Lebai Jaafar 2. Baharuddin bin Asaad 3. Cheah Swee Hee, Sam Hj Abdul Rani & his wife talking with Bob Our latest life member, Encik Baharuddin Two year membership (35 members) Armelle Stoltz Muninderjeet Kaur Arun H Doshi Ng Koon Kow Boey Mun Leong Ng Loo Yen, Jo Anne Charlemkit Rochanavibhata Ong Kong Mooi, Josephine Christina Amandeep Gill Ong Mooi Keng, Susan Dorothea Hegner Lui Kim Thian, Paul Dr Anisah Jumaat Mohamed Izam bin Mohamed Yusof Dr  Jun L Y Toh Nurhayati Hassan Dr Heah Wee Ming, Michael Richard Hoy Dr Suriyakhatun Osman Rajiv Mathews George Dr Yeong Tuck Wai Sherrill Marie Driesen Helen Wong Ah Thong @ Wong Yuet Yu Siew Yip Sim, Jacki Lam Kam Goo, Florence Sim Hooi Hong, Rachel Lee Yong Yong, Shareen Tang Wee Hen Liew Bee Khuan Teh  Mooi Ee, Helen Lim Kee Bok, Bob Tessie Lim Lim Poh Yin Ungku Intan Shazrina Loo Beng Siew V S Umanath Low Chooi Hoon Vimala Suppiah One year membership (6 members) 1. Chan Kam Sun, Samantha 2. Freda Liu Phit Jang 3. Jeremie Averous 4. Lee Keong Fatt 5. Rokiah Esa 6. Sandeep Bhattacharya   If you have not yet renewed your membership either for 1 or 2 years, please do so before the 2nd AGM on 26th Feb 2011. New Kids on the Block We have new blood. That’s the diversity MACC is made up of. It truly makes us  exciting in composition, and richer in interaction.  We welcome:     Armelle Stoltz Charlemkit Rochanavibhata Christina Amandeep Gill Dorothea Hegner Lim Poh Yin Sandeep Bhattacharya Shareen Lee Yong Yong Samantha Chan Kam Sun Ng Koon Kow Sherrill Marie Driesen Ungku Intan Shazrina Kit, our first overseas MACC Member! Join Our Coach Referral Network (CRN) & Coach Buddy System (CBS) MACC Members who wish to post your particulars for these 2 services, please fill up the online form and send it to contact@malaysiancoaches.com. You can click on this link to find out more on the CRN and here for the CBS. Happenings 2nd AGM & Networking Our 2nd AGM has been fixed on 26th Feb 2011 (Sat) at the MACC’s venue at Taman Tun Dr Ismail.   This is a “Must-Attend” event, not only for networking but, more importantly, in giving us the required quorum (which is half of the active membership) to proceed with the AGM.  For this, we need a minimum of  30 members, so please log in this date, 26th of Feb 2011, in your diary.  Time would be from 10 am to 1 pm. We certainly look forward to all of you attending this important event. More details will be provided later but you can be assured of this : Sharing of the key plans for 2011 Constitutional Changes Coaching Standards & Practices Surprise coaching gift Food and drinks, and of course networking Roundtable Meet & Learning Reflections 1st Roundtable Meet : NLP in Coaching     Eugene enjoying explaining NLP concepts   Eugene Tan, the Facilitator for this 1st Roundtable Meet for 2011, is a Certified NLP Trainer and NLP Coach who shared on the topic “An Introduction to Coaching with NLP”.   What actually is NLP? How do we leverage on NLP for coaching? If I am not trained in NLP, can I still use it for coaching? NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was discovered in 1970s and it is used for modeling human excellence – you can model excellence in another person. It doesn’t mean duplicating excellence of another; no replicating. There are 2 components in modeling: Making sense of experience – i.e. giving meaning to what you have seen, heard, felt Interacting with others – observing others in action. When modeling, we are looking at structures & patterns and not content – e.g. following/using the structure of how a person says things & not focusing on just the content.  Rapt attention from members Yes! That makes sense! Excellent rapport between Eugene & Bob! We will share more in our Ning Forum/Blog (see next story) [Contributed by Boey M L, Learning Director of MACC] Exclusively for Members MACC Social Networking Community We are putting in place an online Ning social networking platform exclusively for   MACC members.  Named the Coach Loop, its benefit to members are: Send messages to MACC members from the MACC Exco Allow members to create Forums and contribute/share their experiences, thoughts, views etc Allow members to post blogs Made available to members, coaching tools, resources & tips Allow members to greet others on their birthdays We will be inviting all MACC members to join Coach Loop shortly, so do watch out for our email. By the way,  we are looking for a nicer Coach Loop logo,  so if you can create one, please send it to me  at contact@malaysiancoaches.com. It has to be really very small-sized! Contributed by: Rachel Sim, Director, Publicity & Communications Member's Article Contribution A Survivor's Toolkit for 2011 Michael relaxing in Melbourne Let me begin with wishing you all a happier and an even more successful year in 2011.  Would you agree with me that 2010 had been a good year?  At least most of my business friends did, and this included me.  Congratulation to them (and me), for having learned well in bracing last year’s three major turbulences – the H1N1, the volcanic ashes, and the heavy snow in Europe, and yet able to turn in reasonably good profits! I believe we all have over the years learned good lessons from failures. One sure thing is we have accepted the hard fact that facing and managing turbulences is part of any business cycle and a way of life too. The good thing about us is when we are psychologically and emotionally tuned in to accepting life as the way it is, we get used to it and become adaptable to its vulnerabilities, ups and downs and unpredictable trends.   Thus, survivalist  organizations and people are all prepared for any sudden change in events that usually catch everyone with their pants down. Survivalist organizations are well armed with all forms of contingency. To start off, they have broad based business plans and no longer narrow ones.  Becoming too niche in one or two markets is not a wise business positioning in today’s world.  Business leaders are vigilant and proactive, and do not rest on their laurels. They are quick to respond to any early signs of dangers so that they can nip them in their buds with early actions before they become full blown. Working teams with survivalist traits are able to demonstrate their worth to their organization at all times. So, it is not just doing a job well in good times, but in all times. It is really about  proving our worth every day of our professional lives to our organizations by having an expanded  skill set. This will reduce the possibility of getting retrenched, getting pay cuts or being forced to take indefinite period of unpaid leave. Surely with that, we can wish ourselves a happy and a successful year  ahead!      Contributed by :  Dr Michael Heah, CEO, CCA Keep coaching! And enjoy coaching! Watch out for the next Coaching Loop on 28th Mar 2011