Topic: EQ - Why it matters to us as coaches and to our clients

Date and Time: February 2, 2017 at 10:00

Location:

Milton/Edgewood Pierce County Library – 900 Meridian E, Suite 29

(Surprise Lake Shopping Center – enter from the back of the shopping center)

Thursday, February 2, 2017 --- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

(meeting will begin before the library officially opens)

EQ - Why it matters to us as coaches and to our clients

Your facilitators for this workshop/presentation are:

Sandra Jones, MA, PCC

Sandra is a Professional Certified Coach dedicated to helping coaches fine tune their skills for heightened confidence, professional competency and preparation for certification. She also helps professionals clarify who they are called to be as they experience life and career changes that don’t always support one another so that they can enjoy a sense of purpose and well-being. For those clients who want to Show Up, Stand Up, and Speak Up she helps them get traction making sure that they celebrate along the way. Sandra’s coaching career spans more than 15 years including over five years specialization in Mentor Coaching. Sandra deepened her mentoring skills as Senior Trainer with the Academy for Coach Training and then as a faculty member and Certified Mentor Coach for inviteCHANGE. In 2014 Sandra was named Mentor Coach of the Year by the International Coaching Federation Washington State Chapter. Prior to her coaching and mentoring career Sandra was a corporate trainer and human resource specialist in health care and banking. On a personal note, Sandra enjoys volunteer leadership roles in the ICF Washington State Chapter, within her church and WRY Toastmasters. Walks and hikes, good conversations over a meal with friends, and travel are rewarding parts of Sandra’s life.

Grace Wang, Ph. D.

Before starting her own leadership consulting and coaching business in 2009, Grace served internal leadership roles to help companies such as Microsoft Corporation and Washington Mutual to build its leadership capability for the future through talent management solutions. In 2005 Grace’s team successfully launched the first coaching program at Washington Mutual. Credentialed by International Coaching Federation as a PCC, Grace has been coaching since 1997. For seven years she is also a part of the adjunct faculty at Seattle University's Albers School of Business, teaching management courses. Trained as a psychologist, Grace is passionate about using assessment as conversation starters in coaching. Her work is powered by the purpose to: 1) help an exciting organization realize its vision and promises to its customers, employees & investors, and 2) co-create vibrant workplaces with a strong sense of meaning, energy and belonging. When Grace is not coaching, Grace had served on the Board of Directors of Senior Services (now Sound Generations) for 12 years, overseeing its transformation into an important community partner in social entrepreneurship. Grace is happily married to her partner of almost twenty years. Together they live in Redmond and take delight in their two outrageously hilarious daughters.

Join us for an interactive exploration of the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) in our work as coaches. On Thursday, February 2, we will delve into how cultivation of emotional intelligence can enhance your effectiveness as a coach.

You will take away:

1. Increased awareness of what emotional intelligence sounds like, looks like and feels like in life and in coaching conversations.

2. Enhanced understanding of the importance and impact of emotional intelligence in our work as coaches.

3. Knowledge of the benefits of emotional intelligence for our clients.

4. Tips and practices to strengthen emotional intelligence.

5. Brief introduction to a tool that can be used in assessing emotional intelligence.

How does this link to ICF Core Competencies?

Competency #3 Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client:

Ability to create a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust

Competency #4 Coaching Presence:

Ability to be fully conscious and create spontaneous relationship with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible and confident

Competency #5 Active Listening:

Ability to focus completely on what the client is saying and is not saying, to understand the meaning of what is said in the context of the client's desires, and to support client self-expression

Competency #6 Powerful Questions:

Ability to ask questions that reveal the information needed for maximum benefit to the coaching relationship and the client

Competency #8 Creating Awareness:

Ability to integrate and accurately evaluate multiple sources of information, and to make interpretations that help the client to gain awareness and thereby achieve agreed-upon results.

CCEU’s will be offered to anyone attending the entire event who wants to receive them.