The ICF-CT Chapter welcomes you to International Coaching Week!
Every year the International Coaching Federation celebrates International Coaching Week (ICW), during which ICF Members worldwide celebrate the power of professional coaching to positively impact individuals, organizations, communities and the world. For 2021, ICW will be held May 17-23.
This year the ICF’s theme for the week is, “Defying Challenging Times,” reflecting the past year’s unprecedented challenges and the role that coaches played in supporting our clients personally and professionally as they worked through them.
In conjunction with that theme, our Connecticut ICF chapter has created a series of virtual events during ICW, which we call “Learning from Challenging Times.” This series of panel discussions and meetings is particularly relevant for:
- Human Resources professionals and leaders
- Coaches who work with executives and HR professionals
Our week’s agenda is designed to create awareness of how professional coaching services can be leveraged by Human Resources to help adapt, rebuild and develop personal and professional strategies for the “new normal.”
- Participants from the HR community will gain an understanding of what professional coaches can offer to help them manage and even thrive during times of extreme change. In addition to sharing best practices and key learnings, you will learn how a “coaching mindset” can help you better support your executives and front-line employees.
- Coaches across all specialties can gain important insights into the unique situations that today’s workforce is facing both during and post-pandemic. The experience can help you improve your coaching practice.
Please check out our events, below. Most events are free of charge.
Monday, May 17th
Lunchtime: Front Porch Panel: A candid discussion about “The State of Things” – the challenges and experiences of HR professionals and the profession, through the pandemic and beyond. Join this conversation led by HR professionals and expert coaches as we learn from each other – what worked, what didn’t, best practices and key lessons. Let your guard down in this forum. Click here to register.
Tuesday, May 18th
Panel discussion: Leveraging a Coaching Mindset: Discover how adopting a coaching mindset and skills can help HR professionals adapt during uncertainty and change – and better serve their organization. Our panel of coaches will share how coaching can support you with current challenges whether they be personal, executive, team or organizational. Click here to register.
Later that evening - Take part in a very special evening session with world-renowned coach and author Michael Bungay Stanier, who will speak on “Easy Change, Hard Change.” Click here to register. This is the only paid event.
Wednesday, May 19
Debrief of Michael Bungay Stanier’s talk: For those who attended Michael’s talk, what were your key learnings and takeaways, surprises and actions? Click here for more information and to register.
Thursday, March 20
Facilitated conversation: The Significance of Self-care: Learn how coaching can help you take better care of your whole self, so you can take better care of others – in your personal and professional environments. See how coaches view self-care in a broader context, incorporating wellness, balance, setting boundaries, practicing mindfulness and gratefulness, reframing uncertainty and more. Click here to register.
The coach community shares a common purpose with Human Resources: we are people who take care of people, with different respective skill sets. The members of ICF-CT look forward to “meeting” you via Zoom and offering our support as you plan for the future.
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Virtual Coach Cafés
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May 19
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Getting Rewired for our Next Normal:
New Ideas for Coaches and Clients
Presented by Jeri Sedlar
On Zoom
May 28, 2021
8:00 am EDT: Welcome
8:10 am - 9:30 am: Presentation
9:30 am - 10 am: Networking and Community Connections
ICF CCEs: TBD |
Figuring out the future or one’s next act was tough enough, and then along came COVID-19 and made the challenge even harder. As a result of the pandemic many of us have made new, good, bad, and ugly discoveries about ourselves. If we are honest with ourselves, we gained insights that can impact our futures at work, at play and in life overall. Whether we are talking retirement, transitions, rebooting, repotting, or rewiring is irrelevant. It is how you “do” the future that matters…not what you call it!
Rewiring can be done as many times as you want and at any age or stage of life. Even the smartest people need guidance to maneuver the journey. In this presentation we will talk about what rewiring is and the areas in our lives that can be rewired. There are no silver bullet formulas for success, whatever that means today; new tools and new thinking will be shared.
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