April ICF Chicago President’s Letter

Every Coach is ICF and ICF is You!

ICF is evolving from a structural global organization into a dynamic global community.

- Two takeaways from the ICF 2015 Global Leaders Forum.

Why was the Global Leaders Forum (GLF) important to each ICF member?

With almost 200 elected leaders from 177 chapters and 57 countries, this was the first time all of our voices were in the same room. President Elect Cheryl Procter-Rogers and I were honored and humbled to be invited to represent the members of ICF-Chicago.

The Forum was intentionally designed to be a transformative experience for all of ICF. The program was an intensive, visceral and a community building experience, yielding profound insights that will exponentially evolve ICF in service of coaches and clients.

The ICF Global Board, staff, regional advisory councils and chapters learned from each other. The global leadership and staff “heard” your needs. The chapters are receiving greater support, new tools and resources to improve our effectiveness. 

Your voices and ICF Global are creating a tipping point in our common goal: “Transforming individuals organizations and the world through professional coaching.”

A more extensive article on the how GLF impacts you, the core of ICF, will be posted on the ICF-Chicago blog in April. Access to information, tools and resources will be made available during the coming months.

Important Dates to Remember

March 31 – Membership Renewal Deadline 

March 31 – Nominations for ICF Midwest Regional Recognition Awards

April 1 – ICF Core Competency Call with Ben Dooley

April 13 – ICF Chapter Meeting: HOT Topics Roundtables 

April 15 – March Make-up ICF Core Competency Call with Ben Dooley 

April 15 – Early Bird Discount, ICF Midwest Regional Conference

Through out April – Community Coach Cafés 

As with Spring, ICF is growing with greater energy and deeper purpose.

With gratitude,

Murray

Murray A. Mann
President, ICF Chicago

MARCH CORE COMPETENCY CALL RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 15TH

Hello Core Competency Coaches!

As you may know, we had to cancel our March Core Comp call due to unexpected circumstances.  We thank all those coaches who attended for their well wishes and flexibility.

AND WE’VE GOT A MAKE-UP DATE SCHEDULED.  (We couldn’t just skip the competency of “Direct Communication”, now could we?)

So in honor of that competency, we’re directly communicating to you the new date

Wednesday, April 15 at 2:00 Central on our line (218) 862 3486 PIN: 6969#

And of course, we’re still on track with our previously scheduled calls
for the first Wednesday of every month—
April 1 call on “Creating Awareness” as well as our
May 6 call on “Designing Actions”.

We sure hope to see you there.

 -ben dooley, MCC

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World Cafe Notes from Membership

At our December World Cafe meeting,
we experienced an energetic and enthusiastic outpouring of information
about what our ICF Chicago members want to have, be, and do
within our organization. 

We were delighted to receive all this information! 

Your ICF Chicago Board is working with the results, and deciding
how to implement the changes: which changes to make first,
what to maintain as is, and what and how to best serve
the future of this organization. 

Watch this space for more details,
and thanks again for your generosity of spirit, time, and ideas!