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IN THIS ISSUE Issue 3: July - Aug 2010 Moving into 2nd Gear 1-Day Coach Camp on 20 Nov 2010 Roundtable Going Cyber MACC in Facebook Now! CCA's 4th Graduation & Networking Evening Roundtable Events & Learning Reflections The Coach is In!    MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF CERTIFIED COACHES No 62, 2nd Floor, Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur Phone: +603 20709988 Mobile: +0162786677 (Bob) Fax: +603 20728899 Email: Click here We are on the Web! www.malaysiancoaches.com   COACHING REFLECTIONS ‘You don’t need a lot of techniques to be an effective coach. What contributes to people most is your level of commitment. It comes from the depth of your being’                              -  Dave Ellis WHAT’S COMING? 7th Roundtable Meet: 28th Aug: “Sales Coaching” by Rajiv Mathews, PCC, CPC 8th Roundtable Meet: 25th Sept: “Financial Coaching” by Florence Lam, CPC e-Roundtable: 15th Sept: "The 'Hard Knocks' Way of Picking Powerful Coaching Techniques" Asia Pacific Coaching Conference 2010 "Coaching for Sustainable, Multicultural Communities" 1st -3rd Sep 2010 Furama RiverFront Hotel Singapore Click here for details. CCA 4th Graduation & Networking Evening   30th  October 2010 at Dorsett Regency Hotel, Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur 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.   Coach Refresher Program: Coaching Power Tools  13th – 14th Aug  2010 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. UPCOMING WORKSHOPS 2-Day Coaching Power Tools 13 - 14 August 2010 2-Day High Performance Coaching 27 - 28 August 2010 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 03-20709988 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 |

The Big Coaching Voice Moving into 2nd Gear At the wink of an eye, MACC is now 6 months old! Thanks to all, we have covered good grounds – a website, monthly (and without fail) roundtable meet, a bi-monthly newsletter called Coaching Loop, a MACC car sticker, and a membership of almost 50!   Is this enough? No! Now we got to move into 2nd gear - that is, moving to the next stage of adding value to MACC members  and getting all members to participate and be involved much more in the running of MACC.   Remember, MACC is your representative body to boost your profession and credibility. So how can you be more involved? Attend the roundtable more often, contribute to Coaching Loop, volunteer as speaker, make use of the coach buddy, find a coach service or whatever activities or initiatives  that will benefit MACC. However, to show the way as we move into 2nd gear, we are kicking off a monthly e-roundtable, starting September. This is for those who have difficulties attending the face to face sessions as well as for those who wish to take a second bite. Equally important, it will fulfill the other purpose of promoting MACC and its activities to the world!     Remember coaches are leaders who constantly seek to develop themselves and this learning platform aptly fits the bill, if only you care to seize the opportunity.  We, the Exco members, are mindful of our role as visionary leaders, always striving for ways to generate benefits for you and to position MACC as a leading national coaching body we all can be proud of. It is an undeniable fact that MACC presently embodies a spectrum of varied resources. The challenge is, can we all unreservedly contribute toward the betterment of our Association? As we move into the 2nd gear for 2010, let us, together as one family, make things happen for MACC. Enjoy this issue! Bob Lim Editor-in-chief  Happenings 1 Day COACH CAMP in Nov 2010 Come join us in this very unique annual event for members and their family and friends to get back to basics. Called a ‘coach camp’, it is a day made into a series of personal and people mastery workouts in a fun learning open-air environment. We need to ‘service’ ourselves once in a while before we can service others to get them out of their challenges and achieve their goals. This first one is to be held at Janda Baik on 20 Nov 2010.   Get yourself physically and mentally ready  for this. We are now working out the details and will inform you all soon.    ROUNDTABLE Going Cyber! Another great route to coach learning! It’s called ‘e-roundtable’ (eRT),  a monthly networking and learning platform using the ‘Skype’ technology. It is aimed at busy members who can’t make it for our monthly roundtable sessions. This puts everyone, including those who want to get more learning out of MACC, in a ‘cyber- classroom’ facilitated by a coach practitioner. It will start happening every month, with the first one coming up on Wed 15th September from 8-9 pm, and thereafter every 3rd Wed of the month. This first eRT is on the topic "The 'hard knocks' of picking powerful coaching techniques." What you need to do? a) Register for a Skype account if you do not have one.  Just go to their website: www.skype.com and follow their instructions to download the Skype software.  You will need to choose your Skype name before that. b) Inform Rachel at rachelsim@corporate-coach.com  of your Skype name. c) Send an email to contact@malaysiancoaches.com to  register for the session.  The Schedule and eRoundtable topic will be mounted under Events. d) Turn on your computer, bring up Skype  5 minutes before 8 pm on the stipulated evening and the eRT facilitator will invite you into the cyber-classroom. For further details and assistance, email: rachelsim@corporate-coach.com MACC in Facebook Now! Good news for MACC Members who are IT savvy and simply loves Facebook (FB).   Facebook as a social networking medium is a platform for us to communicate with one another, share coaching experiences, tips, issues, thoughts, events, happenings and other broadcasts.   The Secretariat, represented by Rachel, will be sending out a Facebook invitation to MACC members in the coming days to join the Malaysian Association of Certified Coaches Facebook Group.   Don’t have a Facebook Account?  Do create one and join us in cyberspace! Members’ Achievements CCA’S 4th Graduation & Networking Evening          30th  October 2010 (Sat) at Dorsett Regency Hotel, Kuala Lumpur About 30 coaches will be earning their coach certification on this special day. Another hundred or so  past graduates, coach-students with their friends and families will  be there to catch up with past classmates, colleagues and make new affiliations with others. Come, stay in touch, meet the rest and support our new coach graduates who have made it!  Be entertained with great music from Billy Sim and the youngest Michael Jackson Impersonator of 9 years old. Hear words of wisdom from the legendary Tan Sri Dr M Jegathesan.   And many more things that are going to happen that evening! For details, email angelinloo@corporate-coach.com or call 03-20709988. Seats are really limited so reserve your seat fast so that you will be first to congratulate MACC members who will be graduating in this batch!  Roundtable Learning Reflections 5nd Roundtable Meet “Developing Optimum Coaching Presence” by Dr Suriya Osman    What is coaching presence? And, what is its role in coaching?  Dr Suriya shares these thoughts with us Power in our coaching is the ability to be present – to be able to meet all that is happening with openness and intelligence. It requires us to be non-judgemental, accepting the coachee as who they are. Presence is the best gift you can give your coachee.  Your questions will come from the natural curiosity.  A coach who is present will find techniques popping up like old friends. So what is presence?  It is Learning to BE there with the client (sometimes in silence) so that they can learn to be present with their own experience and feel it fully.  Give them space, and notice when they are thinking. Be in silence, though sometimes it is uncomfortable, it gives them the light of self discovery   For the coach’s holistic development, there has to be  development that integrates the spiritual quotient, emotional intelligence, intelligence quotient and physical intelligence [ Integrate : SQ + EQ + IQ + PQ = True Knowledge] Yet, another point to note: coaches need to be grounded, meaning our feet must be on the ground – realistic, down to earth and fully human. Dr Suriya demonstrating breathing exercises to stay grounded So what is the take-away from this interactive RT session?  Essentially, it is to take cognizance of ICF  Competencies No. 4:   Coaching Presence, to be in the ‘zone’ and give your fullest concentration and involvement with the client. 6th Roundtable Meet “What Makes a Good Coach” Forum facilitated by Helen Teh & Susan Ong This interactive forum addressed these issues: What does it take to be a good coach? Sharing of coaching experiences & challenges. Seeking best practices to given situation. Here are the summarized sharing from the attendees: Bob, Dr Jun, Jo & Jacki Bee Khuan, Richard, Umanath & Anisah Tessie, Anisah, Bob, Dr Jun & Vimala Helen & Susan Rachel Bob: To be in tune with the person objectively and to be detached at the same time. Believe in humility; in the human face to be authentic and win the coachee. Dr Jun: Still WIP (work in progress). Ask powerful questions. How to find the internal switch. Jo: In coaching, a need to establish the agenda; otherwise, the coachee will not be keen and committed. Self-realization: Stop! Pull Back! Don't jump in and fix the coachee's issue. Jacki: To use “we” eg “Can we work it out?” so that commitment is easier. Empathy plays a very important part but cannot be totally involved; otherwise can’t do  lifestyle modification. Bee Khuan: Empathize with the coachee.  Help them to draw up a better Game Plan. Understand how the system works. Richard: Feel happy to see client look at things from a different perspective. Umanath: Flow with the situation.  Be emotionally matured and be a good human being. Anisah: Agree with Umanath, to go with the flow and not to worry what happen next. Agree with Jacki about being detached from the situation. Tessie: Ability to get clear, to organize thoughts as there is always a lot of information. Listen for what is not said. Vimala (4th from left): It is in the trust-building.  Watch the indicators from the coachee. Helen: Totally agree with Jacki on the use of the word "we". Wear rose-tinted glasses, have a positive outlook, ad be a non-judgemental person. Like a puppy or pit bull, won't let go. Susan: It is about how I connect with the coachee. The rest flows somehow better. Observe & listen. Today, I'm a better listener. Rachel: It is ability to challenge that makes the difference. Also, to listen for the "white elephant" that is so easily missed. Member's Speak The Coach is In! This Forum was followed by a live coaching session where the coachee’s issue is “I am a certified coach from CCA but I am terrified of coaching.  I want to work with a coach to find out why, and how I can move forward into coaching.” While the coach, Tessie, took her through a time of self-realization and exploration, let's hear from you too. If you have a coachee like that,  what would be your coaching approach and resources you would use to address the coachee’s agenda? Send your comments to Contact Us and you might just win a prize!   Keep well and 'see' you in the next Coaching Loop issue on 25 Sep 2010!