Benefits
Coaching offers value for people at any stage in their careers. Why? Because everyone can benefit from sharing best practices and gaining perspectives from others who can help them see their situation and opportunities from a fresh perspective. That's why we organize the Coaching program webinars to serve as whole team learning experiences, and Speed Coaching and 1-1 Coaching models provide a structure for advice at multiple stages in a career.
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Connections through Coaching
"[CoachConnect is a] great program. I'd recommend this for everyone who is looking to get information in any area. ICMA is a fabulous organization and I'd recommend its membership to all aspirants hopeful of being in the public sector."
-Ruchi Gupta, ICMA, Doctoral Candidate, National Louis University, Tampa, Florida
"During my career, I have benefitted from having a coach and a CAO who supports coaches for the organization’s executive team, including ACAOs. Likewise, I encourage the department directors on my leadership team to seek out a coach as another resource to help them expand their professional and personal development as local government professionals. Doing so often positively impacts the team’s success and the organization’s ability to retain top talent while giving our best to the organization and communities we serve. I encourage anyone interested in leading and growing to take advantage of ICMA’s Coaching Program."
-Monica Spells, Assistant Manager, Loudon County, Virginia
Four Ways to Increase the Value of the Career Compass Columns
--A Message from Frank Benest--
I have the privilege of writing the monthly Career Compass advice columns sponsored by the ICMA Coaching Program. I have now received several suggestions from readers on how they have leveraged the Career Compass columns and thus increased their value.
Here are the four ways that readers have increased the benefit of the columns. They have. . .
- Read the column and as a result purposefully identified one behavior to enhance their leadership capabilities.
- Shared the Career Compass column with a colleague in order to promote their professional network. (A simple message could read: “I thought you’d enjoy this recent Career Compass column from the ICMA Coaching Program.”)
- Shared the column with their Executive Team (or Department Management Team) and used the column to generate a conversation related to the topic.
- Used the column to spark a discussion at an all-hands managers meeting in their organization.
Let me know if you have other suggestions on how to maximize the value of the Career Compass columns.
Frank Benest, EdD
frank@frankbenest.com
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