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May 2008
Coaching in Action

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Upcoming Events

Monthly Member Meeting
Wednesday, May 14

Jeff Tobe on Creating a Superior Client Experience
All are welcome. Registration is required.
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Upcoming Teleclasses
Wednesday, May 21

Finding Dreams! Getting Clear on What Is Really, Really, Really, Really, Important to You! By Freddie Cecchini. May 21 at 11:00 a.m.

ESSENTIALS for Leadership: The Ultimate Guide to Your Highest Potential. By Maria Berdusco. May 21 at 12:00 p.m.

Secrets to Creating Space for Crazy, Busy Women Entrepreneurs. By Diana Fletcher. May 21 at 1:00 p.m.

Career Club: Tips, Tactics & Talk to Boost Your Career to New Heights and New Directions. By Chris Posti Tice. May 21 at 5:00 p.m.

Discover What Makes You Exceptional: Your Exceptionality is Your Key to the Freedom of Self-Employment. By Tom Volkar. May 21 at 6:00 p.m.

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PCA Member Networking Call
Wednesday, May 28

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Welcome to Coaching in Action - For news and events from the Pittsburgh Coaches Association, dedicated to moving you forward with clarity, action and results. People work with a coach to produce extraordinary results in their personal or professional lives. For more information, and to register for events, please visit www.PittsburghCoaches.org.

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Speaker Focus:
LUNCH & LEARN MEETING
May 14 - Jeff Tobe
Superior Client Experience

The Pittsburgh Coaches Association is proud to welcome Jeff Tobe for our May 14 Lunch & Learn Meeting.

International keynote speaker, Jeff Tobe, teaches organizations how to color outside the lines without falling off the page. Recently chosen by readers of Conventions and Meetings Magazine as "one of the top 15 motivational speakers in North America," Tobe is also known for his high-energy, content-driven presentations.

Jeff's phenomenal knowledge and experience includes problem solving, creative teambuilding, and listening between the lines. In the marketing area, Jeff shares how to create a marketing "blueprint" that applies to any sized organization. He takes participants through a 5-step process of re-evaluating their marketing and advertising techniques.

For teambuilding, Jeff says effective teams increase workplace morale and productivity. Teams that are innovative make fewer mistakes, save money and are more efficient. Jeff Tobe explores the creation of interdependence in teams and how the most powerful teams foster self-motivation among their members.

"Listening is power in the communication process," according to Jeff Tobe. All world class professionals have perfected their listening skills. Have your people? If not, Jeff shares nine techniques to more effective listening and communication which will set you apart from your competition.

Jeff Tobe can be reached at Coloring Outside The Lines, 514 Cavitt Avenue, Trafford, PA, 15085, by e-mail at jeff@jefftobe.com, by phone at 412-373-6592, or visit his website for a personal tour by Jeff at www.jeffTobe.com.


Teleclass Close-up:
FREE TELECLASSES
May 21 - Freddie Cecchini
Finding Dreams

The Pittsburgh Coaches Association is pleased to announce FREE Teleclasses on the 3rd Wednesday of every month throughout the day, one hour classes presented by professional coaches on timely and action-oriented topics. Click here for information on all teleclasses and for FREE registration.

This month's teleclass closeup features Freddie Cecchini is a Business Coach: Coaching with Soul. He coaches business owners, entrepreneurs and executives... making life easier.

Freddie helps people get very clear on what's really important to them, and keeps them in action so they can move their business to the next level.

His mission is to teach people how to use both the mind and the soul to help them move towards their dreams and desires in their business and their personal life and at the same time helps them understand the law of attraction.

Freddie asks business owners, what do you want and what are you doing about it? He helps entrepreneurs get off the fence, and start living their life. He insist executives take action and live the life they were born for.

Freddie has his clients stop waiting and start acting. He provides a structure to take regular time out of their busy lives to take the BIG picture, to make sure that they are heading in the right direction towards their dreams and desires where they will be the happiest and that they are taking the easiest and most fun path.

He helps people find big dreams, and helps them do what ever they need to do so that at the age of 90 they have zero regrets. Their business is the vehicle they use to develop their BIG picture and purpose in life.

Freddie is also known as your "Dream Coach"... So what is your Dream?
Sign up for his FREE teleclass: Finding Dreams! Getting Clear on what is Really, Really, Really, Really, Important to You!
Date: Wednesday May 21
Time: 11:00 - 11:55 A.M.

Learn the power of your thoughts, how they influence your future and how to attract your most important Dreams. Learn how the Law of Attraction works and discover three key ingredients, (Dreams, Passion, Action) for Making Life Easier. Join Freddie for 55 minutes of inspiration.

To sign up for Freddie's teleclass, you can Register Here. You can contact him at 724-334-5884, E-mail Coach@CreatingSoul.com or visit his website at www.CreatingSoul.com where you can register for his free Tips for Making Life Easier E-Book. Visit his blog here.


Coaches Spotlight:
COACHES NETWORKING CALL
May 28 - Tom Volkar
Exceptionality

Tom Volkar is a career and life coach who coaches individuals locally and internationally by telephone from his office in Pittsburgh. He's been walking the brave path of right livelihood since 1989, after succeeding big, and failing big, in entrepreneurship, relationships and life. Tom believes that no matter how far you've fallen, you can come back to create the life you most want to live.

Tom is a past president of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association and a member of the International Association of Coaching, as well as a student in Coachville's Graduate School of Coaching and a Certified Five-Day Program facilitator.

He lives his values in heart-to-heart coaching four days a week, with intent to inspire, to encourage, to rally and to pioneer. One of his greatest joys and strengths is the ability to help people to clearly see how to lead with their strengths. Tom also lives his vision, which is that everyone is authentically fulfilled in work, in love and in life.

Tom's coaching style is to be wildly inspiring, deeply encouraging, direct, bold, intuitive and enthusiastically supportive. He helps clients to see their authentic self and bring it forth into the world.

Tom's high energy and inspiring upcoming FREE Teleclass is Discover What Makes You Exceptional: Your Exceptionality Is Your Key to the Freedom of Self-Employment. It's on Wednesday, May 21 at 6:00 p.m., and is available to everyone.

Tom's teleclass is for those who crave work life freedom. According to a recent survey, 74% of Americans want to call their own shots - but they hold back from making their move. They haven't yet discovered a passion that makes them feel extraordinarily confident.

The key to finding an exceptional business idea is to unearth your own exceptionality. You have what it takes, and coach Tom Volkar will vigorously guide you so that you can see your own brilliance. Enroll now to unearth your special vein of uniqueness that will inspire you to go for it!

To sign up for Tom's teleclass, you can register here. Feel welcome to contact Tom for any reason at (412) 655-0872. Email Tom at tom@CoreU.com or visit his website at www.coreu.com where you can register for his free newsletter where he announces many free group experiences. An avid blogger, you can read Tom's internationally popular blog at www.delightfulwork.com.


Coaching Quote of the Month

First say to yourself what you would be
then do what you have to do.

Epictetus