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Dear Friends and Colleagues

Your Board has been busy. Welcome to our first issue of Chapter Digest, a monthly e-letter that will give you the key highlights to help you engage in ICF Greater Richmond. Take a look at the exciting upcoming events, and I want you to notice something. Two of them are for members only, the Networking event and the Tele-seminar. The board is very focused this year on making membership in ICFGR irresistible. We want you to consider it the best $60 you spend on your professional development and wonder how you can get so much for so little. If you want to attend an occasional monthly program, we’ll continue to leave that option open for guests and are delighted to have you. But we know we have done our job when you join. So do the math, and I hope to see you on the member roster soon.

I want to thank Susan O’Neil, Plum Cluverius and Gay-Lynn Carpenter for their help in bringing you these excellent opportunities to both learn more about your peers and your profession. Take advantage of these wonderful programs. Also, please check out our programs for the remainder of 2010 (insert link.) It’s an exciting line up.

The ICF Greater Richmond Board of Directors is working hard to support you in the coaching profession. Whether you are an experienced coach of several decades or someone exploring coaching as a new profession, there is a place for each of you. And if you would like to become involved at a deeper level there is also a place for you on one of our committees. We can tailor the activities you would like to become involved in around the amount of time you can devote. Please contact me at denise.kasper@capitalone.com.

Now more than ever leaders need coaches. Leaders, and that means all of us, face an array of challenges not seen in their roles for many years. They need coaches who can help them with ‘possibility thinking’ in exploring unique, creative alternatives to serious problems. They need coaches who can help them understand the importance of leadership presence, trust, frameworks for decision making, holding others accountable and the use of reinforcements to shape desired behaviors. I challenge each of you to develop yourselves so that you can coach your clients in the most productive and effective ways possible. I encourage you to leverage ICF Greater Richmond so that you can continue to develop in your own profession.

Scheduled Events »

Starting in April, ICF Greater Richmond will host a regular tele-seminar series, “Coaching in Practice,” on a topic of interest to member coaches. This members-only learning opportunity will allow members to call into a conference number for an interactive discussion.

What: Coaching leaders to be Change Agents

Date: April 14, 2010, 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.

Register: FreeConference.com will send registration information to members. Conference call number received at registration

Today’s leaders face constant change. Few understand the emotional journey employees must go through in accepting and adopting these changes. This teleconference will discuss the Prosci Change Management model using the ADKAR scale to measure change acceptance.   The focus will be on how to coach leaders to get through their own change curve as quickly as possible so that they can lead other employees through these changes. 

This teleconference is open to members only of the ICF Greater Richmond Chapter.

Presenter:

Denise G. Kasper, ACC, serves as President of the ICF Greater Richmond chapter.  She is certified to teach the Prosci Change Management model and uses it when coaching leaders in her role as an HR director at Capital One. Denise received her coaching training at Georgetown University and has been a certified coach since 2006.