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Call to Action: Nominate deserving ICF-TN Members and Coach-supporting Organizations
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Chapter Awards’ Call for Nominations Is Open through October 31. We look forward to recognizing your nominees and the award winners at the December ICFTN chapter meeting.
ICF-TN believes in recognizing our coaching community as well as corporations that support coachi...
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Spotlight: Leigh Ann Roberts, PCC- Executive Coach and Professional Development Trainer & Consultant, Circle Center Consulting
1 - Where are you from, and how did you choose to live in Middle Tennessee?
I’m from Ridgeland, Mississippi (north of Jackson, south of Canton) and came to Tennessee because, when I graduated law school wanting to practice mediation, Tennessee had court-mandated mediation and Mississippi...
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Letter from the President: Who Are You?
Much has been written and debated about leading the various generations now found in our workplace. How do we apply that knowledge and awareness to coaching? How do you coach to the generation sitting in front of you? It has been said that good coaches meet their client where they ...
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Spotlight: Mary Jo Greil, Founder of Carson Greil Group, LLC
1 - Where are you from, and how did you choose to live in Middle Tennessee?
My family of origin is from southern Wisconsin; I moved to Memphis to work on a doctoral program that would allow me to have an internship in business as input for my dissertation. The result was changing a career from educ...
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Take Stock of Your Accomplishments - The Rewards of Membership
Welcome to July and the second half of the year. Quoting Ferris Bueller: “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!”
As you take stock of what you have accomplished so far this year, consider the value of your membership in ICF...
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Spotlight: Nina Morel, Dean of the College of Professional Studies, Lipscomb University
1 - Where are you from, and how did you choose to live in Middle Tennessee?
I grew up in Nashville (yes, a rare native Nashvillian!) and graduated from Hillsboro High School and Lipscomb University and lived in Green Hills most of my life. It has changed a lot, but I still love this community.
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Spotlight: Karen Nash, Ingram Content Group
1 - Where are you from, and how did you choose to live in Middle Tennessee?
I’m an Army brat and have lived in several cities across the United States, from Washington, DC to Baton Rouge, LA to Hackensack, NJ. I moved from New Jersey to Nashville about 25 years ago to be close to my family.
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Competent Coaches Are Courageous ... As Are Their Clients
As a member of the professional coaching community, you know we are guided by a set of competencies. One aspect required of coaching competency is facilitating our client’s learning by creating awareness with the client and designing actions to apply the learning. Have you considered how muc...
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A Few Thoughts on the Coaching Relationship ... When Does Coaching Begin?
Whether an internal or external coach, a leadership, career coach or life coach, our engagement with a client follows a process codified in our coach competencies and our ethical standards. The twists and turns that a conversation can take with a client who is anxious, confused, upset, obfuscating ...
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In the Spotlight: Celeste Shepherd, ICFTN Assistant
1 - Where are you from, and how did you choose to live in Middle Tennessee?
I’m actually a native Nashvillian! Well, almost… I was born in London, England and moved to Tennessee with my parents at age 2. After college, I moved to Austin, Texas for a number of years, but when my son was...
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