Leading Coaches’ Center Update and Goodies for You

Thanks to everyone who joined in our mastermind call yesterday with Gerhard Schwandt about efficiency in the context of energy flows!  If you missed it, you can access the recording via the Members Only page or use the link here:
http://leadingcoachescenter.com/clubhouse/mastermind-live/recording-of-leading-coaches-mastermind-call-featuring-gerhard-schwandt

I also wanted to point out all kinds of goodies that you may not know about if you haven’t logged into the LCC site for awhile:

1.  Meet Members: We now have 274 members, many of whom are luminaries in the business.  You can search by name or keyword, or you can just go to visit profiles where you can send messages or write on the “wall” of any member. There’s a video of how to navigate that page here: http://leadingcoachescenter.com/blog/how-to/how-to-meet-members

2.  Join the BE A VOICE team: So, one of the annoying limitations of this system is that the real juice of it all (i.e., the conversations) happen in teams.  In order to have one place where we can all be in conversation together, you have to join the Be A Voice team, which is why it’s got it’s own separate tab in the navigation bar.  Please join!  http://leadingcoachescenter.com/groups/be-a-voice/

3.  Post your Announcements and Questions for This Community:
Did you know you can now post anything you’d want to announce to our community or engage our community to participate in?  You’ve got to be logged in, and then you can go to the Find A Team tab, and scroll until you get to a team called Announcements and Questions for This Community.  Then you can post away!  Be sure to check out the goodies already posted there: http://leadingcoachescenter.com/groups/announcements-and-questions-for-this-community

4.  Coaching Agenda Debate: Be sure to visit the Keep Learning tab when logged in so you can access the comments field to add your two cents to the various posts there, including the debate about the coaching agenda (yours or your client’s):  http://leadingcoachescenter.com/blog/challenges/coaching-agenda-debate

5.  Leverage the Leading Coaches’ Center for your own purposes: Did you know that you, as a member, can create a team anytime you want?  You can create many teams!  You can specify if the team is private or public.  Here’s how that can help you…let’s say you belong to a coaching team or a mastermind group of coaches.  Or perhaps you are building a coaching cadre for your own business.  You can create a team in the LCC and then invite your group to participate in your team.  You can make it private, if you wish, so that only your invitees can see what’s there and participate in that conversation.  You can use the platform of the LCC, which is already built and free to you to use, to communicate with your group in an online forum specific to them.  Let me know if I can help you think through how you might use the LCC for your business, group, or team.

6.  Post your photo if you haven’t already! Your profile is naked without your photo….and if you haven’t filled out any of your profile fields, you likely are not even showing up in the members area.  Here’s a video about how to post your photo:  http://leadingcoachescenter.com/blog/how-to/how-to-add-your-picture

Gain Efficiency and Energy: Next Leading Coaches’ Mastermind!

The NEXT Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call is happening in a few days on Thursday, June 10!

HERE’S THE LINK TO SIGN UP: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

(Of course, it’s free!)

If you’ve ever felt stuck because the piles in your office are out of control, you’re going to want to be on this call!

How long does it take you to find things in your workspace?

How efficient is the energy flow of your work?

Come learn the answers to all these and more when we engage in conversation with Gerhard Schwandt, Faculty Member of the Leading Coaches’ Academy and really amazing guy.  I used to be one of those people whose piles had piles and the sense of overwhelm was constant. That was before Gerhard revolutionized my workflow, coaching me into a customized, effortless system that I’ve used ever since!

HERE’S THE LINK TO SIGN UP: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

More information is on the Members Only page: http://leadingcoachescenter.com/members-only

Did I mention it’s free?

If you didn’t get the email announcement we sent out last week, you can click here to access it!

Did You Get Yours? Most Recent Leading Coaches Connection Newsletter

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Time to Sign Up for Our Next Free Mastermind Call
Free book giveaway…Check it out, especially if you’re a David Wood fan!
Missed the Mastermind with Charlie? Get the recording now!
Suzi’s Insights Interview
Greetings!

Hi there! Wait a minute….something looks different here. [Leading Coaches are so observant...]

We’ve got a new look!

I have more options for sharing juicy stuff with you using this format than the previous one, namely pictures! Let me know what you think of the new version.

MEETUP opportunities!

If you’re planning to be in New Mexiconext month for the CAM’10 event, please do let me know by clicking the link so we can meet up in person!
See who else from our community will be there.

Also, if you can come to Washington, DCat the end of June for ICCO’s Symposium: Building Sustainable Coaching Programs in Organizations, I’ll see you there, too! It’s an intimate, senior level deep-dive into the crucial issues of coaching in international organizations. Actually, if you register in the next week, ICCO is offering a 10% discount off of the registration fees for any ICCO event! I have posted the details on our blog at the Leading Coaches’ Center for you to access.

Onward and upward!

~ Suzi

Go Ahead and Register for the NEXT Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call!
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Carol GoldsmithOur topic will be:
Return on Experience (ROX): How to Turn Past Performance into Future Success

Conventional wisdom says that change is hard. Experiential wisdom proves otherwise. In fact, clients don’t even need to change old patterns to achieve new results. They just need to choose a more useful pattern from their vast behavioral repertoire.

When they do, they achieve what our speaker calls a positive Return on Experience (ROX)™.

Join us as Carol Goldsmith, The Discovery Coach, shares this powerful peak performance coaching tool. The Return on Experience (ROX) model has helped clients on four continents break through a range of long-standing issues-from procrastination to fear of public speaking-in a matter of minutes. Leading Coaches Center members get to experience the ROX model before the release of Carol’s new book.

You will discover:
· How success leaves clues in the body
· The 6 types of successes anyone can tap
· Three Magic Questions that unleash the power of experience
· How to turn tacit experiences into tangible strategies for success

Here’s the link to save your spot: YES, I WANT TO BE ON THIS CALL!

Free Book: Get Paid For Who You Are by David Wood

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book by woodDavid Wood, a gifted author, has written a powerful new book that he is literally giving away. It’s about how to share your passion with the world using the internet, impact lives,and get paid for it.

If you enjoy this offer as I did, pass it on to your friends-let them score a free valuable book and do some good for charity at the same time. While books last…

Here’s how to get your copy of David’s book

The Recording from the Last Mastermind Call with Charlie Smith, Ph.D.

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Charlie Smith, PhD
Now you can access the recording from the March Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call with Charlie Smith, PhD. It’s free because it was such a fabulous conversation you won’t want to have missed it.


Suzi in Insights Magazine!

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April Insights

I was interviewed by Stacey Chadwell of TheCoachExchange.com and that interview was printed in the April issue of Insights Magazine…along with Marshall Goldsmith! Check it out here!

As a FREE GIFT TO YOU, access the issue with my interview here: www.getei.com/suzisgift

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Return on Experience (ROX): How to Turn Past Performance into Future Success

Conventional wisdom says that change is hard. Experiential wisdom proves otherwise. In fact, clients don’t even need to change old patterns to achieve new results. They just need to choose a more useful pattern from their vast behavioral repertoire.

When they do, they achieve what our speaker calls a positive Return on Experience (ROX)™.

Join us on May 6th as Leading Coach Carol Goldsmith, The Discovery Coach, shares this powerful peak performance coaching tool. Details can be found on the Members Only page!  (Not a member of the Leading Coaches’ Center? Click here to join free!)

The Return on Experience (ROX) model has helped clients on four continents break through a range of long-standing issues—from procrastination to fear of public speaking—in a matter of minutes. Leading Coaches Center members get to experience the ROX model before the release of Carol’s new book.

You will discover:

  • How success leaves clues in the body
  • The 6 types of successes anyone can tap
  • Three Magic Questions that unleash the power of experience
  • How to turn tacit experiences into tangible strategies for success

Kindred Spirits Roundtable – What Happened On the Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call?

Did you miss the last Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call?  Want to know what happened?

Leading Coach and Leading Coaches’ Academy Faculty Charles Smith, PhD., transformational coach to CEOs for over 40 years and author of multiple books on innovation and sustainable transformation, guided our conversation about the impact of energy on predicable business results.  It  was a mesmerizing call, and of course, you can access the recording if you’re a member of the Leading Coaches’ Clubhouse!

For those on the call who really engaged in and enjoyed the conversation, there is an opportunity for more!

Kindred Spirit Roundtable - A unique group coaching mastermind experience with Charlie Smith, Ph.D.

A Kindred Spirit is someone who is like-minded to you.

In our case, we are further defining Kindred Spirits as:

*Possibility People
*Those who see the physical world and the relational world at the same time
*Abstract thinkers
*Both values-driven AND money-driven
*Successful
*Honor your word

Are you a Kindred Spirit?

Join us for 8 sessions from April 30 to August 20

Details below

Don’t miss the next Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call on May 6 at noon with Leading Coach Carol Goldsmith about ROX…Return on Experience! Make sure you’re a member of the Leading Coaches’ Center to get the details.

Exciting new opportunity for you!!!!

If you were on the call with Charlie Smith last week (scroll down for information about how to access that recording), you heard him talk about Kindred Spirits. Several folks on the call declared yourselves to be Kindred Spirits.  There was a lot of energy for that, and as a result, Charlie and I are pleased to offer you the following:

Kindred Spirit Roundtable - A unique group coaching mastermind experience with Charlie Smith, Ph.D.

Charlie not only coaches CEOs and has been doing this work for 40 years, but he brings a visionary mastery to every conversation, as those on last week’s call experienced.

Join him for a series of 8 group calls, one-hour and a quarter each, over 4 months.

Bring your current challenges, coaching client case studies, sticky situations, and any business growth issues you want to grapple with on these 8 calls with Charlie. It will be an intimate group — there are only 9 spots available so if this resonates for you, please let us know immediately so we can save you a spot!

Time of calls      3:00PM EST/ noon Pacific

Dates of calls:

April 30
May 14
May 28
June 11
June 18
July 9
August 6
August 20

Cost:  $1000
(If you were to hire Charlie as your coach, you’d pay $6800 for 8 hours of coaching with him.  In an exclusive deal for our Leading Coaches’ Center, Charlie has generously offered this roundtable coaching format for $1000 per person.  Where else can you get 8 sessions of supreme master coaching for $1000?)

TO SIGN UP NOW: Send an email to suzi@leadingcoachescenter.com indicating if you prefer to pay by Paypal, credit card, or check so we can complete your registration accordingly.

Mastermind Call Debrief!

We had about 44 people sign up for the first Leading Coaches’ Mastermind Call on 3/24 and Charlie Smith was AMAZING! Here are a couple of the unsolicited emails from attendees:

“This is amazing! He is amazing! This conversation is amazing.” ~ Wendy Capland

“Great call today. Congrats on a great conversation today. I would have chimed in–especially when neuroscience and Gestalt came up–but my phone kept cutting out. Anyway, I too would like to join the Kindred Spirit Club.” ~ Carol Goldsmith

Get the Recording

You can access the recording of that call on the Leader’s Clubhouse under Mastermind Live, although membership in the Clubhouse is required.  But shhhhhh….don’t tell anyone, I’m giving you a secret code you can use when you sign up for the Leaders’ Clubhouse that will allow you access to everything in there for FREE for one month, but then it will charge your credit card each month after that until you cancel your membership.  Of course, getting in at the ground level for the charter member fee is a real deal, since you can belong at that rate for life, even when the membership fees go up once we officially launch.

Here’s the link to join: Join As A Charter Member

Here’s the secret code to enter in the box that says “coupon code”:  SP2009

Here’s the link to the recording from the Mastermind Call with Charlie:  DOWNLOAD OR LISTEN HERE

Once you’re in the Leader’s Clubhouse, you can also access Charlie’s Faculty page in the Leading Coaches’ Academy and learn more about all the cool stuff he spoke about on the call!

ABOUT CHARLIE

Charlie  Smith

Charles E. Smith Ph.D., Managing Director: Navigating from the Future

Charles E. Smith, PhD has been an executive coach and organizational development consultant to senior leaders of companies, associations, and government agencies in the United States, England, Canada, and now China, since 1969.  He is also author of  The Merlin Factor:  Keys to the Corporate Kingdom & numerous magazine & blog articles.

Charlie Smith and Navigating from the Future are Leadership Consultants, CEO and Executive Coaches, Transformational Trainers, Mediators, Political and Policy Analysts, Public Speakers, Authors and Media Specialists.

We are about transforming the world toward both Noble Purpose and Business Success. This is a world that is productive, innovative, has quality of life for everyone by their own standards, and seeks peace with Justice….. in corporations, government agencies, communities, smart cities, non profit organizations and between nations.

We Operate Globally to Invent, Ignite & Implement Breakthrough Innovation and Sustainable Transformation expressed primarily through these programs:

  • CEO and Senior Executive Coaching with Fortune 500 CEO’s, Senior Military Officers and Executives from many countries in corporations, in government and in consulting companies.
  • The Overview Experience (a three-day program).  The Overview Experience is designed to produce lasting changes in your relationship to yourself, your organization, and to the planet.
  • The Breakthrough Innovation Program.  Participants learn principles and practices of Breakthrough Innovation and apply them to their Innovation Agenda, own challenges, commitments, and concerns.

CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED

DTE Energy, Ernst and Young, U.K. Ministry of Defence, AT Kearney, Land Rover Ltd, Perkins Engines Ltd, Campbell Soup of Canada, The Rouse Company, Marion Merrell Dow,Inc.,BakeMark Ltd, Damovo Ltd, Merck & Company, Derlan Industries, International Nickel Company, Steinberg, Inc., Canadian Liquid Air, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Environmental Protection Agency, The US Air Force, UK Ministry of Defense, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, Olin Paper, The Southwest Electricity Board, The National Wholesale Druggist Association, The Industrial Distribution Association, Procter and Gamble, Eastern Michigan University, , IBM, Cunard-Ellerman Ltd

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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Dr. Smith has served on Boards of Directors for the Foundation for Mid-East Communication and the National Peace Institute Foundation. He helped create the Middle Road Foundation for Native American Youth in Taos, NM and is a past President of the Harvard-Racliffe Club of New Mexico. He is currently on the Board of Directors of ATWG (the Aerospace Technology Working Group).

TEACHING POSTS

Associate Prof. of Organizational Behavior Sir George Williams University

The McGill Centre for Management Education

PUBLICATIONSBooksSmith, Charles E. Navigating from the Future; a Primer for Sustainable Transformation; Create Space Publishing 2009

Smith, Charles E. The Merlin Factor: Keys to the Corporate Kingdom. Kairos Productions, (U.S.) Gower Publishing (England): 1995.

Book Chapters

Smith, Charles E., “Stage Three Leadership: From Good Ideas to Unified Action.”  Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space Apogee Books Space Series ed. Bob Krone, 2006.

Journal Articles

Smith, Charles E, “The Merlin Factor: Leadership and Strategic Intent.” London Business School Strategy Review, Vol 5 (1), pp. 67-84. 1994.

Smith, Charles E.,“King’s Counsel”. London Business School Strategy Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 78-80, Autumn 2007.

Privately-Published Articles

Smith, Charles E., Duprey, Donald. “Possibility Deficit Disorder.” October 2009.

Smith, Charles E., Griffiths, Mike. “Board Dialogue as a Source of Competitive Advantage”. 2004.
Smith, Charles E., “Who Stole My Synergy? Synergy Management for Mergers that Work”. 2000.

Smith, Charles, E., “Why Things Work – The Merlin Navigator”. XONITEK Corporation Operational Excellence By Design (online) September 2009

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University

M.B.A., Harvard Business School

A.B., Harvard College

Certificate in Gestalt Methods, The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland

How To Meet Members

The screenshot below will highlight a few key elements of the Meet Members page, which you can access from the home page at http://LeadingCoachesCenter.com anytime.

I recorded a super short video message for you.  You can access it at the link below!

How to Meet Other Leading Coaches at the Leading Coaches’ Center

Please watch this recorded message:  http://proclaim.netbriefings.com/flv/trial/mueae/trialmueae100022/

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How to Overcome Overwhelm

Distraction creates OVERWHELM.

It’s a pandemic these days how many of us feel continual overwhelm.

I see it in the executives I coach, I see it in leaders everywhere, and I see it in school children.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Focused, Engaged, Present

I recently spent time coaching a team of scientists leading a large scale project for NIH and we uncovered an unlikely conversation.  I asked them to distinguish between what they mean when they say “focused” versus “engaged” versus “being present” at a meeting or with the teams they lead. I was surprised to learn that in their particular frame of reference “being present” meant nothing more than a body in attendance – physically there.  They defined “focused” as thinking about how the conversation applies to you and “engaged” as thinking about how the conversation applies to the purpose of the meeting/team and others.

Intrigued, I brought this conversation to several Leading Coach colleagues, and we determined that for us, “being present” had a different meaning, and that it’s useful to begin with a baseline understanding of your clients’ distinctions around terms we often use very casually.  My scientist clients were initially unwilling to accept the concept of disarming their always discerning, evaluative, analytical mind in favor of any other kind of being or listening.

Most Leading Coaches, I surmise, would distinguish “Being Present” as fully attending to someone, empathetic, with suspension of your assessing, judging evaluations.  No attention on your own thoughts/processing. No analysis. No judgment. It is active in that when you are present in the conversation you are really seeking to understand.  Probing questioning looking for clarity.  Proactive listening.  Listening for the deeper layers so you can take the conversation to another level.  Right?  What am I missing? Be sure to login and add your comments below this post, I really want to hear what you have to say about this!

Being Present is the Antidote to Overwhelm

Here’s my premise:

“Being Present” is the antidote to DISTRACTION, which is the culprit that creates overwhelm in the first place. Overwhelm and distraction act as a virtual mobius strip…bending and melding into one another in a seamless circle of motion where one becomes the other and vice versa.  Think about it:  you are working on a project for a client presentation and you are doing a bit of research online. You are focused on creating your Powerpoint deck or webinar slides and suddenly an email catches your eye that requires you to quickly check something online and respond.  Then, before you know it you’re 20 minutes into emails and YIKES! you remember that you’re supposed to be working on this presentation.  You return to your task at hand now overwhelmed by how much is left to do.   Or maybe you’re focused on reviewing a series of deliverables from an employee, analyzing their work product and you’re paying attention to their work on all cylinders when someone pops his head into your office for a quick question or joke.  You’ve now lost your train of attention, and when you return to your previous state of focused flow, you’ve lost 20 minutes of productivity time. Ay! Distractions are what cause overwhelm.  And life in the Age of Social Media is fraught with distractions.  We can’t even read something online without being tempted to go down various rabbit holes by clicking on extraneous distractions that are seemingly connected to what we came to the internet to do in the first place.

So what’s the distinction between Focus and Being Present?

Focus is an active act requiring effort.  You command your brain to attend on all fronts to the task or person at hand.

Being Present is an inactive act requiring letting go.  You release distractions and just BE.  As human beings we can’t exactly eliminate distractions, so that’s not the goal here. We can, however avoid distractions by actively BEING present.

The secret is the early detection of distractions.

If you can detect a potential onslaught of distractions prior to their causing overwhelm, you can intervene at the point of loss of focus.  When you or a client is experiencing overwhelm, there are two things to do:  1. avoid distractions and 2. get present.