Pittsburgh Coaches Association
November 2009
Coaching in Action

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Upcoming Events

November Teleclasses

Bringing Back the American Dream: The path to our Dreams can get a little rocky at times! with Freddie Cecchini
Date: November 18, 2009
Time: 9:00 - 9:55 a.m. ET

The Battle for Mindshare: A Tele-Workshop; How to position and brand to attract clients with William Weil
Date: November 18, 2009 Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET

Frustrated with Holiday Frenzy, Fat, and Family Obligations? Put the Fun Back into the Festivities! with Diana Fletcher & Laura Crooks
Date: November 18, 2009 Time: 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. ET

Organize Your Holidays and Reduce Stress with Leslie McKee CPO-FM and Ellen Delap CPO-FM
Date: November 18, 2009 Time:1:30 - 2:15 p.m. ET

Awaken to Your True Calling: Acknowledge Your Calling to Thrive with Tom Volkar
Date: November 18, 2009 Time: 4:00 - 4:59 p.m. ET

Holistic Stress Strategies with Deborah Barr
Date: November 18, 2009 Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET

Find Your Great Work with Michael Bungay Stanier
Date: November 23, 2009 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET

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LUNCH & LEARN MEETING
Nov. 11 - Schwarck & Weil
Emotional Alignment

Emotional Alignment: The Missing Link to a Successful Coaching Practice

Presented by: Barbara Schwarck, PCC, MA and William Weil, MS

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Have you ever had a client where, no matter what you tried, nothing seemed to make a real difference? You assisted them with gaining clarity, goal setting, perspectives, etc., but in the end, little or no movement occurred. What happened?

Coaches and clients struggle when they are not emotionally aligned with their goals - with what they're up to. Why? Because being successful is usually more than a matter of knowing how and being committed. For example, people who are overweight who know how to lose weight, and even when they are fully committed, often still struggle, even if they have great life coaches. What's often missing is creating an emotional alignment with one's goals. The same can be true for an executive coaching client who, for example, is looking to communicate more effectively with his or her direct reports, where the lack of emotional alignment can be tougher to detect.

Detecting and creating emotional alignment can be essential because improvement, success and change result from being congruent (emotionally aligned) with your goals.

In this presentation, you will:

  • Learn how the three parts of the brain, conscious, unconscious and subconscious, relate to whether or not you will be successful.
  • Learn how to detect emotional misalignment.
  • Learn different approaches to goal congruency, including Neuro Emotional Technique®, which will leave you empowered and in a better position to change.
  • Participate in an exercise to evaluate your emotional alignment with the current position/brand of your coaching practice.
  • See an interactive demonstration of gaining emotional alignment with your current, or a revised, position/brand of your coaching practice.
About the Presenters
Barbara Schwarck, PCC, MA
President of Clear Intentions, Barbara has a rare set of skills, enabling her to deliver powerful keynotes to a variety of people interested in clarifying, identifying and achieving goals. As an executive coach, trainer and author, Barbara has the insight to achieve quick and lasting success for your audience or clients, with a focus on bottom-line results. She is past president of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association and the co-author with William Weil of From Intuition to Entrepreneurship: A Woman's Guide to Following Her Dream. Her company, Clear Intentions, is a catalyst that causes global executives and leaders wanting to make a difference to shift from reaction to pro-action.

William Weil, MS
Bill has founded seven companies and currently heads the Internet Marketing Practice for Socius Partners. He has 23 years of marketing experience including 10 years specializing in Internet marketing. He is the author of New Earth Relationships: A Guide for Couples in the 21st Century and co-author, with Barbara Schwarck, of From Intuition to Entrepreneurship, A Woman's Guild to Following Her Dream. His coaching practice focuses on leveraging brilliant communication for providers to connect with their clients.


FREE TELECLASSES - Featuring Special Guest Teleclass with Michael Bungay Stanier
Find Your Great Work

In addition to coaching and speaking, members of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association conduct workshops and seminars and for several years have also conducted teleclasses on a regular basis. These teleclasses are now held monthly, and are an opportunity for Pittsburgh coaches to share some of their coaching knowledge and experience with participants, as well as their passion for helping others to move forward and reach new levels.

Along with six excellent free teleclasses scheduled for Nov. 18, this month we are featuring a special guest teleclasss on Nov. 23.

Michael Bungay Stanier: Find Your Great Work: napkin-size solutions to stop the busywork and start the work that matters.

Mark Nov. 23 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST on your calendar. Grab your lunch, a cup of coffee, tea or wine, relax in your chair and join us for an interactive, fun and practical teleclass that will give you new tools and insights for your coaching.

Hosted by Donna Billings, Immediate Past President, Pittsburgh Coaches Association and Program Director for Duquesne Professional Coach Certification Program, this program is not just for coaches. This seminar is for any leader, manager or individual who wants to find their great work. In this class, we'll work through three of the coaching tools from Michael Bungay Stanier's latest book, Find Your Great Work: napkin-size solutions to stop the busywork and start the work that matters.

You'll learn

  • What's the difference between Great Work and Good Work - and whether you should care or not
  • How to find the sweet spot between the work you want to do and the work you feel you have to do
  • Two words that will significantly increase the power of your coaching questions
  • How to say No when it's not really cool to say No
We'll be using a new technology that allows us to do small group breakouts on the phone - so this won't be the usual one-hour monologue. (But it also means you're unlikely to catch up on much email during the call....)

Click here to register for this special teleclass.

About Michael: Michael Bungay Stanier is the Principal and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Find Your Great Work has been endorsed by 10 past presidents of the International Coach Federation. Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year and a Rhodes Scholar. He also created The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, The 5 3/4 Questions You've Been Avoiding, and The Great Work Movie, short internet movies that have been seen by well over a million people in at least 175 countries around the world.

Michael's latest book is Do More Great Work (Workman Press, 2010) a revised and expanded version of Find Your Great Work (Box of Crayons Press, 2009). Michael is a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences. Recently he has spoken at the SHRM, the OD Network, and the International Coaching Federation conferences.

What people are saying about Michael Bungay Stanier
"I found the book an easy read - highly human with a warm, humorous edge. And beneath that light exterior there is a deeper message. FYGW contains a strong rationale of change neatly packaged in the science of human motivation and common sense. The book contains a clear structure for sustainable change. I see it as a wonderful way to work through solo - your own personal search to increase your great work or as a wonderful structure for working through with a coach. Here's the recipe just add your own conversation!" Karen Tweedie, ICF President

"If I had to pick a person to have dinner with, when I need to be prodded and challenged and inspired to think about the things I really am committed to think about for myself and what I'm doing, I'd pick Michael Bungay Stanier. He has an ability to shake our tree and make us more conscious and responsible about what we know but aren't willing to admit we know yet. And the best part - he makes it easy and fun." David Allen, Author of Getting Things Done

Teleclass topics range from sales and marketing to creating space, leadership, and finding your dreams, and can help people to make important changes and take steps to reach their potential.


Coach Spotlight - Chris Posti

Why are people fascinated by stories about the marital problems of David Letterman, Jon & Kate Gosselin, Governor Mark & Jenny Sanford, and even by those of "regular" people? One of the reasons for the fascination is that stories are an intriguing and painless way to get insight on how we can improve our own marriages and relationships.

Chris Posti, a seasoned executive coach who specializes in behavior change (www.postiinc.com) and past president of Pittsburgh Coaches Association, is also fascinated by people's relationships and behavior. She has seen first-hand how behavior problems in the workplace can spill over into a marriage, and vice versa.

Her unique background of coaching, writing, and consulting, coupled with her own personal experiences of being divorced and now remarried, enabled her to create a unique self-help book, Marriage On and Off the Rocks: Intimate Stories of Marriages that Made It and Others that Didn't (Toll House Press). The book allows readers to peer into dozens of private lives to see how others in diverse marriage situations fared, and by doing so, to learn how to change their own behavior in order to save or improve their own marriages.

Chris Posti's #1 tip for improving a relationship? Become selfless -the opposite of selfish, which she defines as the relationship-squelching, almost-automatic, inner- focused way people naturally behave. Posti says that selfless behavior requires conscious effort at first, but in time, becomes a learned behavior.

Marriage On and Off the Rocks is available on Amazon and Kindle, and the book's website and blog can be found at: www.MarriageOnAndOffTheRocks.com.


Join the PCA

We invite experienced coaches, as well as those new to the profession, to join the Pittsburgh Coaches Association (PCA). This is an exciting time to be a member! We are a 501(c)6 professional organization, and an International Coach Federation (ICF) chapter.

Additional benefits for member coaches include networking opportunities with other professional coaches, a profile on PCA's 'Find a Coach' website directory, discounts for monthly luncheon meetings featuring interesting and relevant speakers, a forum to offer teleclasses on coaching-related topics of your choice, and special events to raise the profile of coaching within the community. There are many more benefits; please don't hesitate to become a part of one of Pittsburgh's best professional associations.

You can now register to become a member online at www.pittsburghcoaches.org. Join today. Membership now being prorated - you can join PCA for only $65 for the rest of the year.

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Professional Memberships for Non-Coaches

Not a Coach? Now you can join PCA as an Associate! We invite all professionals in the Pittsburgh area to join us. Are you interested in meeting coaches, supporting coaches but are not a coach? Join us now as an Associate Member of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association. Membership is prorated at 50% for the balance of the calendar year.