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Introducing our new Coaching Certification Program graduates!
A new group of graduates have completed all requirements for the Coaching Certification in Appreciative Inquiry and Whole System IQ™. From the midwest and west coast, and from around the world, they join a group of uniquely trained, competent and capable certified coaches available to support your organizational and personal success.
- Donni Davis-Perry
- Julie DeSot
- William (Bill) Dorn
- Daniel Dow
- Ted Cole
- Anine Grumbles
- Clay Jacobs
- Butler Knight
- Daniel Mussatti
- Tina Sutton
- Greg Wagner
- Donna Weiss
To read more about them, click here.
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INTERNATIONAL
COACHING CERTIFICATION
Held in HONG KONG
April 2012
Workshop 1 ––
Whole System Change and Positive-Core Coaching
Coaching services are tailored to the needs of each client and the system within which they work and live. Services may include Executive Coaching, and coaching to improve performance, for advancement, or to change behavior. In Whole System Change and Positive-Core Coaching, you, as the coach, will identify system patterns and concerns, and the impact these have on your client.
As a Positive-Core Coach, you will add velocity to the accomplishment of specific objectives, and develop your client's leadership capability. You will become especially effective in identifying a system's and an individual's blind spots and creating an integrated plan to assist clients in overcoming them.
• Introduction to Whole System Change – where you will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to coach towards integrated, sustainable change.
• Introduction to Positive-Core Coaching with the Leadership for a Healthy World™ model. The LHW is the only research-based, positive-core leading model being taught today. The LHW has been featured at a recent National Organization Development (OD) Conference in Austin, Texas, USA; at the International OD Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada; and at the Appreciative Inquiry World Conference in Nepal.
Includes training in additional coaching and change techniques, such as:
• Whole System IQ (intelligence) and Whole Field Alignment
• The TOTE method of change (Test-Operate-Test-Exit)
• The For Change to Happen model
• Breakthrough Results
• The Timeline for Whole System Change
• Phases of Whole System, Positive-Core Coaching
You will polish your skills in:
• Contracting for whole system coaching
• Developing coaching goals that build on the positive core
• Using the Whole Field Alignment model for assessing needs and planning for systemic change
• Building client self-worth, hope and capability
Workshop 2 –
Positive-Change Facilitation, applying Appreciative Inquiry.
For leaders to excel in increasing their organization's creativity and productivity, they must build individual confidence and collective willingness to take risks. Their communication needs to touch others at a deep level, promoting co-ownership within their organization and between their organization and its community of stakeholders.
In this workshop you will experience Positive-Change Coaching, based on "appreciative inquiry" (AI). Positive-Change Coaching is a vehicle for constructing a shared vision, inclusion and collaboration, and commitment to whole system action –– action that ultimately, enhances individual and group effectiveness.
Positive-Change Coaching has been known to "turn tension to enthusiasm, cynicism to collaboration, and apathy to inspired action." As a Positive-Change/ Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator, you will build positive futures with your clients, by creating shared images of possibility. For this session you will receive additional materials, such as:
• The Leading Clinic's unique, comprehensive leader's guide, handouts, and a high quality slide show – all the tools you will need to facilitate your own Positive-Change processes and Appreciative Inquiries.
• The Timeline for Tomorrow: a sample design of a whole system change structure –– an integrated process for change, using Appreciative Inquiry and the AI Summit.
Includes training in additional coaching and change techniques, such as:
• Positive-Change Coaching using affective questioning
• Phases of the positive change process
• Learning to listen for client's positive intention
• Developing the "appreciative eye"
• Interview questionnaire development for engaging stakeholders in the change process
• Designing positive change processes for whole systems
• Strategic Intention
You will polish your skills in:
• Positive discourse
• Listening for strengths and recognizing sources of system vitality
• Sensory-acuity and positive reframing
Click here for further information!
For registration information or to receive a brochure fully describing the programs and certifications, contact Stephen Tsai at stephentsai@mac.com
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Coaching Certification In Appreciative Inquiry
and Whole System IQ™
PROGRAMS ARE HELD ON THE WEST AND EAST COASTS
Contact us for upcoming dates for a program near you.
Coaching Certification
in
Appreciative Inquiry &
Whole System IQ™
Learn how to help your clients achieve – and sustain – positive change.
This 10 day, 150-hour program offers certification through The Leading Clinic.
Between June and July on the West Coast, and between September and October on the East Coast, two intimate and uniquely focused groups of people will gather to investigate, experience, challenge, and inquire their way to a new level of capability in working with clients and client whole systems.
A special highlight of this professional development process is the application of Appreciative Inquiry within the context of whole system change.
As a certified coach/consultant™ in AI & Whole System IQ™ you will be qualified to coach today’s CEOs and the next generation of high potential managers, plus teams, and whole systems –– large or small, partnerships, corporations, public agencies, or other groups –– going through change. After completing this program you will begin or enhance your ability for working from a systemic and local/global perspective. You will relate to your clients/client systems in deeper, more meaningful ways.
Session 1 WSIQ – Whole System Intelligence
Session 2 The Coaching Conversation: Breakthrough Reframing
Session 3 Appreciative Inquiry and the AI Summit (integrating AI in a Whole System Change approach)
Session 4 Whole System Interventions in Your Coaching and Consulting Practice
*note: Sessions 1 and 2 run consecutively for a total of 5 days. Sessions 3 and 4 also run consecutively for a total of 5 days. There are approximately 5 weeks between sessions 2 and 3. Coaching projects and personal coaching calls occur between sessions 2 and 3, with one call as a follow up, after session 4.
Coaching Certification in Appreciative Inquiry and Whole System IQ™ (whole system intelligence) gives each participant the opportunity to see how systems work, apply tools to assess the changing environment, and inspire clients while building their confidence to take on the pressing task of changing a complex, whole system. This program will enable you to assist your clients in achieving an unprecedented breakthrough in their key personal and business results.
You will be in a learning journey that is . . .
intensive
personalized
in-depth
transformative
and designed to prepare you for certification in executive and whole system coaching.
NEW: Graduates of the 2011 programs will be the first to become a Certified Appreciative Inquiry & Whole System Change Facilitator™, now offered through The Leading Clinic. With completion of the program, you will be fully prepared to facilitate your own Appeciative Inquiries.
Enrollment is limited to ensure that the learning environment is personalized, and that you are engaged and able to focus on your own learning goals.
For further information, click here to see more detailed information...
or contact: Sherene Zolno at szolno@comcast.net
The Leading Clinic, Tel: 206-463-6374
THE RESULTS ARE IN!
COMMUNICATION
Our 1 –2 day results-focused communication course is now available for delivery in your organization, fully customized to focus on your team and individual communication challenges.
Learn To Communicate Effectively
Through Results-focused
Communications
The RESULTS ARE IN! COMMUNICATION program is a powerful one-day workshop that focuses on building communication skills that help participants achieve desired results at work and at home. ProAction Associates’para approach emphasizes communicating with integrity, self-awareness and an understanding of how and why individuals act, react and interact as they do. This workshop benefits those who want to become more balanced and effective as communicators so that they can better advance key personal and organizational initiatives.
Who should register?
Executives, managers, nonprofit leaders, employees and volunteers, independent consultants—all testify that THE RESULTS ARE IN! COMMUNICATION program provides an immediately useful repertory of communication skills—backed by clarity, intention, and confidence—that significantly improve your performance in the workplace and elsewhere
What skills will you master?
You will develop skills and learn theories that will significantly improve your workplace performance, productivity and ability to work with others. This includes learning about the awareness model, interpersonal gap, how to align intention and impact, and how to communicate during intensity. This workshop uses experiential, one-on-one or small group practice sessions to ensure that participants complete the workshop ready to implement new, proven approaches for getting positive results in their everyday communication, at work and at home.
- Learn to communicate with clarity, intention and confidence using specific, advanced communication skills.
- Build self-awareness and understanding of what kind of impact your communication style has on others.
- Manage your reactivity to others in moments of intensity and seek, through inquiry and curiosity, to restore the flow of communication.
- Learn which types of responses tend to escalate or de-escalate the level of intensity in which you are trying to communicate.
- Identify your typical communication responses to intense situations and practice alternate responses to achieve more useful results.
Click here for an article on THE RESULTS ARE IN! COMMUNICATION
For program and registration information, click here.
CONFERENCE HANDOUTS AVAILABLE
Sherene Zolno spoke at the
Appreciative Inquiry World Conference in Nepal
Topic:
Appreciative Leading: Toward a Healthy World
Click here for conference handouts.
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Sherene Zolno spoke at the
Organization Development Network national conference in Austin,TX
Topic:
Getting Smart about System Change
Click here for conference handouts.
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Sherene Zolno and Rick Skillman spoke at the
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
(IODA) CONFERENCE
Topic: APPRECIATIVE LEADING: Seeing a way to a Healthy World
Click here for conference handouts.
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Sherene Zolno hosted a roundtable discussion
at the
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION (ILA) CONFERENCE
Topic: Model for a Healthy World: the core competencies of leaders.
Click here for conference handouts.
For more information, please contact us.
