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In This Issue of the CoachVille Member News: 

• Rita Fiore, Mentor Program Director, shares her take on Mentoring
• Updates on Ginger Cockerham’s Group Mentoring Program
• 3^rd Annual CoachVille Conference early bird pricing extended
• More Fr^e teleclasses with the conference speakers
• CCI teleclass update

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Mentoring - what’s it all about?

What is it about mentoring that’s distinct from coaching?  How does mentoring impact people in their lives?  How is mentoring different from coaching?  Why have separate programs for Mentoring?

If all we had to do was read a book or listen to a tape or attend a class, on how to be better in any area – become any of the following: richer, thinner, smarter, etc we all would be richer, thinner, smarter by now.  There’s one particle missing – a mentor – someone who is committed to my growth & development, someone who has walked the path before me in the area I am committed to succeed in.  Applying that learned knowledge is hard to do on your own.  Most of us don’t succeed alone.  That’s where coaching and mentoring come in - you’re not alone.

If you think back over your life, I bet you will soon realize that some of the most impactful times in your life were when you had a mentor guiding you.  For me a mentor is someone who has successfully navigated the rough spots, and was willing and able to clear the way for my passage.  The times I spent with my mentors have left a lasting impression on me and my actions in my life – both personally and professionally.  The lessons were well learned and have never left me.  Most of these lessons, I have passed on to others.

A mentor is different from a coach.  Not all coaches are mentors.  I can and have coached surgeons, bankers, CEO’s.  I’ve never been any of those, and I wouldn’t be a mentor to them – a coach yes, mentor no.

When we begin as a coach we usually coach someone in things we are familiar with.  As we grow as coaches, we realize we can coach anyone.   Most senior coaches can and do coach anyone – bankers, doctors, wives, singers – anyone. We know  what we are coaching is the person not the profession or skill set needed for that profession.  

A mentor is someone who has accomplished something in a focused area – who’s already been there and is able to pass along what is needed so the path is shorter and you can navigate the hazards together.  Just as important, there’s someone there to celebrate your successes with you.

A mentor has knowledge, expertise, and experience in a particular arena and is willing and able to pass all of that on to others.  In most of the trade’s  and crafts, people have apprentices to learn their trade or craft directly from the masters of that trade.  Doctors and lawyers have intern programs to facilitate learning their practices and skills. 

Some of us need a navigator, guide or director with expertise – we want speed, velocity, certainty on our path and how the need is fulfilled is with a mentor – someone who has walked the talk.  Someone who is willing and able to  guide, inspire, coach, push, acknowledge and share with.  That’s a mentor.  

Rita Fiore
Mentor Program Director
Rita@coachville.com 

Group Coaching Mentoring Program
By Ginger Cockerham

Over the last few years, the interest among coaches in coaching their own groups has grown tremendously. Coaching Groups allow coaches to leverage their time and spend fewer hours coaching while being much more profitable per hour. Groups also give your clients an affordable alternative to one-on-one coaching, and often can be more powerful for them by virtue of the interaction of the others on the call. What are the benefits of group coaching to the group members?

1. They experience the collective wisdom of the group. Often the group can generate more and better ideas faster than one or two people working alone. 

2. They gain rapid access to multiple perspectives. Working with you individually they will be exposed to whatever perspectives you bring, but in a group of 8-10 people, they have immediate access to at least that many more perspectives.

3. Affordability. Group coaching is much more cost effective for some clients.

4. Resource sharing. Members in coaching groups are remarkably generous with sharing resources. They begin to see each other's successes as being their own.

5. Accelerated motivation. The added accountability of a group of people, plus the momentum of the energy, can really accelerate people's motivation and progress.

Many people have experienced teleclasses, and think that this is what group coaching is like.  However, group coaching is more free-flowing and co-creating.  By co-creating groups with your advocates and ideal clients, you can show up and coach on the call without having to create a lot of content, or have structured programs. This makes it easy for the coach and brings fantastic results for the group.

Coaching groups is not entirely intuitive though,there are some things you need to know. If you want support, encouragement and tools that will help you be effective in starting your own groups, the Coachville mentoring program led by Ginger Cockerham may be just what you need.  You'll learn to Identify HOT group coaching markets that fit your strengths and passion, and to use speaking, writing, presenting and workshops to collect groups.

Two Mentoring Groups focused on Group Coaching are launching right away with limited space available.  Click here to check them out.

Early Bird Pricing Extended

For The 2004 Coachville Annual Conference 

If you’ve been thinking about attending this powerful, intensive 3-day event that can change the way you do business forever!, you still have time to take advantage of the Early Bird Full Package Price of $445.  Register by May 1^st and receive  a $100 savings off the Regular Full Package Price.  To register please visit www.coachvilleannualconference.com.

More Fr^e Teleclasses with CoachVille Conference Speakers 

Marcia Wieder, America's Dream Coach
Make Great Money Doing What You Love (Encore Presentation)
Friday, April 2, 1pm ET

Oprah Winfrey called Marcia Wieder America's Dream Coach. Marcia built a three million dollar marketing company based in Washington D.C. and in 1989, announced she was leaving that business to move to California to help people achieve their dreams. 

Marcia has written 3 books, Making Your Dreams Come True, Life Is But a Dream and Doing Less and Having More, and she is currently writing her first novel. She leads Dream Coach University in San Francisco, week-long curriculum for training and certifying coaches and leader. 

This will provide a specific content approach for coaching people on how to make their personal and professional dreams come true. What sets Dream Coaching(tm) apart from other programs is Marcia's solid business knowledge and marketing approach. Come prepared to ask her how she does it. 

Click here to register! 

Mitch Meyerson
How I Turn My Coaching Ideas Into Profit-Producing Products...
and Landed a Spot on Oprah (Encore Presentation)
Monday, April 12, 2 pm ET

Mitch Meyerson is a consultant, author, coach and the CEO of Guerrilla Marketing Coach. He has authored six personal development books and audios including Six Keys to Creating the Life You Desire, When Is Enough Enough? When Parents Love Too Much, Designing the Life of Your Dreams and Online Marketing Superstars: Inside Secrets from the Most Successful eMarketers of Our Time. His books appear in over 21 languages.

He is the Founder and Creator of The Guerrilla Marketing Coach Certification Program and has personally trained over 100 marketing coaches.

In this content-packed tele-class Mitch will share his model on how to turn your ideas into products and sell them online and off. For more information and free marketing articles visit: http://www.gmarketingcoach.com/cv.htm  

Click here to register! 

Deborah Brown
Get Your Name in Print! Build Your Coaching Practice and Gain World Wide Exposure 
Tuesday, April 13, 1:00 PM ET 

Would you like to gain more exposure for your coaching practice? Would you like to get your name in print? It's easy once you know the secrets to getting your practice and your opinions in top newspapers and magazines. As a fellow coach who has been quoted numerous times in The Wall Street Journal, The New Your Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Smart Money Magazine Deborah will be leading an introductory discussion that will cover the following: 

1. How to develop compelling stories about your coaching practice that the media would be interested in knowing 
2. What editors and reporters look for when selecting experts for their stories 
3. How to start a PR program of your own 

Newspapers and magazines are always looking for new things to write about. Have one of their stories written about you. 

Click here to register!  

Dianne M. Daniels
The Bottom Line of Style: How Your Professional Image Affects Your Profit (Encore Presentation)
Thursday, April 15, 12:00PM ET 


Dianne is the editor and publisher of The Image & Color Digest, an electronic newsletter on Image, Networking and Business topics. Dianne is also the author of several published articles, including "10 Keys to Powerful First Impressions", "10 Tips to Stretch Your Wardrobe Dollars", "10 Keys to Great Skin at Any Age" and multi-part articles like "How Color Can Affect Your Image", "Menswear - Putting Together a Business Wardrobe" and "Networking - Your Way to Build Business Relationships". 

Find out how projecting a confident, professional and polished image will open doors to new clients and opportunities.  

Click here to register! 

Lance Secretan
Inspire: What Great Leaders Do!
Monday, May 10, 8:00PM ET 

Lance Secretan teaches an approach to management and leadership that improves organizational performance by transforming individuals, working relationships and the working environment. He is a dynamic, uplifting speaker with the experience of a former CEO and a message that inspires people to bring their true and vibrant selves to their work.

Lance speaks with the authority of personal success as a business leader himself. As its CEO, he built Manpower Limited into one of the largest employers in the world. He then retired at 40 and, in the early 1990s, created the Secretan Center, devoting himself to teaching Higher Ground Leadership(sm) full-time. He has been a professor of entrepreneurship at two universities and an award-winning columnist for IndustryWeek.

He’s written ten books on various aspects of Higher Ground Leadership(sm) and a new book is due later this year. Lance Secretan will show us how to inspire others and ourselves. Based on a lifetime of research, Lance Secretan takes us on a compelling journey to discover what all great, inspiring leaders have known: their Destiny (Why I am here on Earth), their Cause (How I will be while I am here and what I will stand for), and their Calling (What I will do and how I will use my talents and gifts to serve). He shows us clearly, using concrete examples of successful leaders he has worked with, many of whom are from healthcare and dentistry, how we can do it, too.

Click here to register!  

Please stay tuned for more classes each week or check the listings at http://www.thomasleonard.com/teleclass/detail2.lasso?id3=2058 

If you tried to sign up for a class and it was full, you can listen to the real audio of the class by clicking on one of the links below.

Ross Dawson
Creating Living Networks
Click here 

Laura Berman-Fortgang
90 Days to a Lucrative Practice
Click here 

Stephen Fairley
The Top Ten Marketing Mistakes Coaches Make and How to Avoid Them
Click here 

7 Secrets of Highly Successful Coaches
Click here 

David Dibble and Joanne Dunleavy
The Masteries - A Spiritual Guide to a "Next Step" in Coaching
Click here

Marcia Wieder, America's Dream Coach
Make Great Money Doing What You Love
Click here

Drew Rozell
The Law of Attraction
Click here

Join Us For a Fr^e Introductory Call on the CCI Teleclass Series 

Are you looking to upgrade your coaching skills?  Interested in learning more about the CoachVille Coaching System?  Are you frustrated by a string of short-term clients or an inability to attract a different type of client?  Could you (and your coaching business) benefit from a results-oriented process designed to support a broad range of models and client situations? 

If you are thinking YES, please join Michael "Coop" Cooper and Rick Reddington this Saturday April 3, 2004 from 1200PM to 1255PM Eastern/NY time (additional sessions are available) for a free, introductory overview of the CoachVille Coaching System.  

In this one hour teleclass we will introduce this powerful five part system which includes: Clarifiers, StylePoints, Frameworks, Deliverables and Proficiencies.  Together, these components will provide you with a broad range of tools, tips and techniques to boost your coaching skills and grow your coaching business.  After just one hour, you will approach your coaching business and your clients differently.  This free teleclass is also intended to serve as an introduction to the CoachVille Coaching System Intensive, a separately priced teleclass series to be offered shortly. 

Click here to register.