Tomorrow’s
Life Coach In This Issue: Global Expansion of ILCT
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Additional classes, details and online registration at our course section. Some schedules may change; check listing or contact Edwina Adams, Administration/Registration, at edwina@lifecoachtraining.com. Pat's PonderingsWow...has coaching gone global!!!! In the last few months ILCT has solidified new global initiatives that will take our training into foreign countries in their native language. We are beginning training in Korea with an ILCT Korea office. Marilyn O'Hearne and I have trained four Koreans in English in the foundational course and the practicum and they are finishing their graduation/diploma requirements with Charles Hamrick, my Director of Asian Operations in Korea. Dr. Paul Jeong will be the Director of ILCT Korea. We continue in our efforts to open ILCT Turkey, albeit we have changed the contact company to a different organization and are revamping our training design. But Turkey is a great market for new coaches and corporate interest and we are moving forward full steam. Lynn Meinke will be returning to Istanbul to train seven people in our practicum which will complete their Certified Life Coach program and move them to become future trainers with ILCT Turkey. And Laura Cuttica Talice, one of our Italian students, is opening ILCT Italy and plans to begin training in 2006!!! I am also in conversations with people in Australia, South Africa, and Japan for offices in those locations. Our partnership with the UK College of Life Coaching is also moving forward and the proposed merger of trainings opens the global market even wider. Be sure to read the details later in this issue on our training opportunities with the UK College of Life Coaching in New York this October 21-23. People who complete that training will have the opportunity to work for the college as teachers, tutors, and mentors. Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Editor's PenHow can the world be flat? We pride ourselves in our enlightenment – we know the world is round. But Thomas Friedman, author of the new book "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005) has identified the newest evolutionary stage of our human race as “Globalization 3.0”, and states that the world is flat! In his article “It’s a Flat World, After All” (New York Times, April 3, 2005), Friedman describes Globalization 1.0 as the years between Columbus discovering the Americas in 1492--and stating that the world is round--to 1800. Such explorations shrank the world from a large size to a medium size. The forces in play were the globalization of countries for resources and imperial conquest. Globalization 2.0 takes us to year 2000, shrinking the world to a small size, and was energized by the globalization of companies for markets and labor. Globalization 3.0 is currently shrinking the world to a tiny size and flattening the playing field. The dynamic and even unique force for this stage is individuals and small groups globalizing. This stage is empowering individuals! And this stage will be different because it will not be driven primarily by American or European countries and companies (as in stages 1.0 and 2.0), but by individuals that are much more diverse (ex. non-Western, nonwhite.) Friedman continues with this comment by Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys Technologies. Multiple aspects of the expansion of technology culminated in 2000 and ''created a platform where intellectual work, intellectual capital, could be delivered from anywhere…and this gave a whole new degree of freedom to the way we do work, especially work of an intellectual nature.” Friedman quotes Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape and creator of the first commercial Internet browser: ''Today, the most profound thing to me is the fact that a 14-year-old in Romania or Bangalore or the Soviet Union or Vietnam has all the information, all the tools, all the software easily available to apply knowledge however they want.” How will Globalization 3.0 impact coaches? It already has. Technology has given us the pathways to connect globally—easily. Coach-based communities and teleclasses span the globe. The niche of international coaching is growing. Progressive organizations such as our own ILCT are forming alliances and strategically growing globally. Perhaps the global economic maelstrom is forcing more people out of corporate life, and as a result, some of those people become coaches or could benefit from hiring a coach. Coaches need to be aware of the global environment and its effect on various levels: Realizing that we are now in Globalization 3.0, can you identify your competitors? Can you recognize how your clients are impacted by the challenges and opportunities of the global marketplace? What lifestyle habits related to learning and flexibility should be adapted by you and your clients? How would you influence the training that today’s youth receive? And how can you use these insights to coach more effectively? To your success, Annette Annette A. Miller, MBA When I was growing
up, my parents used to say to me, ILCT Continues Global Expansion Current ILCT is headquartered in the USA and currently has representatives in Italy, Switzerland, France and Singapore, who answer questions of prospective students. New: United Kingdom The UK College of Life Coaching Ltd. and the Institute for Life Coach Training have agreed to form a strategic alliance and work together to provide quality, accredited Coach training in the US and key locations across the globe. Dr. Patrick Williams, founder and CEO of the Institute for Life Coach training has been appointed Dean of The UK College of Life Coaching in North America. Both parties will be working in close cooperation on a range of projects, and offering programs accredited by both the Open College Network of Great Britain (OCN), and the International Coach Federation (ICF). New: ILCT in Asia ILCT has started operating in Korea and China. ILCT Korea is training four staff to become fully graduated from our program. All materials will be translated into Korean and classes will be taught in Korea by ILCT faculty. Charles Hamrick is the director of Asian operations and speaks Korean fluently and will supervise the teaching and quality of instruction. Charles has also delivered programs on coaching executives in Shanghai, and will be expanding ILCT services to include coaching Chinese executives in both local and global companies. Dr. Paul Jeong will be the Director of ILCT Korea. Upcoming: ILCT Italy Laura Cuttica Talice, one of our ILCT students, is planning to offer training through ILCT Italy in 2006. Upcoming: ILCT Turkey ILCT is continuing its efforts to open ILCT Turkey. Lynn Meinke will be returning to Istanbul to train seven people in ILCT's practicum which will complete their Certified Life Coach program and move them to become future trainers with ILCT Turkey. Additional Countries The ILCT is also considering expansions to Australia, South Africa and Japan. Updated
Designations from ILCT “The threshold is low.” So goes a Chinese saying, meaning that when entering a temple, one has to step over a low wooden doorsill. In America and most of Europe, the way that we behave determines our relationship with people. If we do what we say when we say we will do it, then trust and credibility develops. In most Asian countries, our relationship determines our behavior. If we enter into relationship with another person, by means of work or friendship or family, then our behavior modifies accordingly. Often, this means that trust comes first. On one hand, we keep a threshold; after all, it is very useful to carry your own toothbrush and comb when traveling. On the other, we keep the threshold low, so as to invite trusting relationships. This is just one of many lessons that we as coaches have an opportunity to learn as we expand across borders. Crossing borders as coaches, we drop our paradigms before stepping over the threshold, learning to coach from a deeper place within, becoming more fluid to the environment. In coaching language, we may call this tracking the client, but we have an opportunity to learn at a much deeper level. In most Asian cultures, many metaphors on water call attention to its ability to wear down stone and to seek the low places, calling us to go with the flow of the stream rather than keeping our head stuck to a rock. Being fluid allows us to leave our judgments on the outside of the temple. Being fluid allows us to accept others’ cultures as they are rather than struggle to change them. An Indian maxim gives us two options, to cover the world in leather, or to wear shoes. Sitting by the window in a coffee shop near a shrine in Kobe, Japan last month, people seemed in slow motion in the cold rain. That afternoon I was writing another chapter in a book on kids moving across borders, and ideas were flying one a minute. That is what I like about coaching across cultures, learning comes at Ferrari speed. When first moving to China some fourteen years ago, I asked a friend what book to read, and his reply was the Dao De Qing. I asked for the title to a second book, and his reply was that when I had read it forty times, come back and ask for the second. The implication is clear; we do not have to struggle to learn about other cultures. As the Dao says “My words are easy to understand.” Over the last five years, it has been an honor to coach over 200 expatriate executives and their families moving to other countries. These people represent nearly thirty nationalities, moving to nearly twenty different countries. Many times, I have been able to be in their homes for a day or two with their families. Therein lays the honor, the trust generated by low thresholds, the willingness to learn, and the opportunity to share. It is another honor to serve ILCT as we deliver programs on coaching from Istanbul to Seoul, New York to Shanghai. Working with the Korean students in the coaching classes, seeing the way that they transform subtly our words and ideas into the Korean culture while respecting the integrity of what we teach, I become clearer about how we are here to be truly helpful, without offering to help. As we do so, we can demonstrate to others a way of being, a way of carrying on conversations and asking questions that allow people to find their own solutions, to discover their own reality. And this is the point, that coaching is a way to transform businesses, through their people, into entities that are truly of service. With eighteen years experience in the management of global corporations in Asia, Europe, and North America, and eight years experience in coaching top executives, Charles Hamrick understands the challenges that people face in creating and meeting their goals in global settings. He creates and delivers programs on coaching for such corporations as GE, GM, and Microsoft. He is a Certified Life Coach through ILCT and a member of the International Coach Federation. His professional education includes engineering, psychology and an MBA. His language abilities include English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. To live content with
small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word
to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow
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