“JUST IN-TIME FOR 2009″

As we survey the scene in the communities and world around us we have compelling reasons to ask good questions and secure good data for making great changes to meet the needs on the present and distant horizons.

As primarily an “education/training” institution or school we are noting the following:

1. All educational institutions are struggling on numerous issues including increased costs of training, relevancy to the student of how training translates to meeting their pressing needs, delivery systems for training that does not interrupt maxed out lives, and rapidly declining student enrollments.

2. All coaching schools that meet ICF standards are expected to give “truth-in-training” disclosures that reveal the relevancy of the coach training to the actual percentages of their graduates who are gainfully employed meeting client’s needs. Smart applicants are only beginning time consuming and costly coach training with “the end in view” of what specific difference they can expect based on the track records of those schools.

3. Our present convergence of reflecting on our Strategic Plan and redesign of a new Web Site that incorporates some of the latest WEB 2.0 relational networking, communication, and marketing is the right time to evaluate our past and future approaches to assure our sustainable success. What is needed is the testing of all of our “assumptions” about who we are, what we do, and why we make a significant difference so that we do not meet needs that no longer exist or have been replaced by greater priorities in the lives of our markets.

After eight years of operation Lifeforming Leadership Coaching is serving during a critical year in our nation that will require creativity and courage. As President I have weathered a lot of changes in the landscape with our ministry and company since it’s early days. I have never seen a better staff and timing for us to position ourselves for our future.

I am committed to the kind of changes that will make us more than viable but vigorous in the coaching field. My one goal for Lifeforming is for this is to be the year that we explode in marketing, expand in staffing, and express our DNA effectively in creative partnerships and alliances with new products and services.

The end results of our hard work together should be a growing brand identity among Christians in the workplace, churches looking to meet the discipling needs of our day, and anyone looking for hope and help in the present economic environment. That means our coaches will have more business and more stories of transformation. That means our licensees will have a much higher rate of credibility and success than it took us. That means our international partners will be cutting edge with the ability to define themselves profitably and transformationaly to their cultures.

Over the last couple of months I have been reflecting and processing on how to bring together some of the lines of thought and action that we have initiated over the last years and how to integrate it into ways that make us the go-to company for meeting the needs of our day. This has led to continually asking the “so what” questions about what we do in all of our training efforts.

So what when we finally get ICF accreditation? So what if we continue to offer the most thoroughly Christian transformational training available? In other words, what difference will all of that make to the needs of the end users; those who will acquire the services of our coaches or our trainers in their organizations and churches? When we keep that end in view it actually targets our own need to redefine ourselves to our markets while maintaining the integrity of our values and core beliefs.

To that end I believe we are “Just in Time for 2009″ with beta tests beginning on 3 new initiatives that will accomplish the following:

1. Put some key client-generating tools and methods in the hands of our thousands of coaches worldwide that will address real solutions to their current challenges that people need from coaching.

2. Recruit hundreds of new potential coaches through condensed time and cost training that will open doors for them for 7M, Discipleship, and Financial issues to which they will offer solutions and sustainable change.

3. Provide effective and fruitful marketing methods to match both of the above with thousands of people who want to make a difference where they live and work by engaging a qualified coach.

Stay tuned for our next Newsletter to get more details….and PLEASE pass on to others to be part of this monthly newsletter for the innovation information that will accelerate transformation in and through them.

I am so glad that we are;

Just in-time for 2009!

Joseph Umidi,
President & Founder

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Listen to His Voice!

Happy New Year! I was reading an article in this month’s issue of Success magazine and I could have sworn the author, Blair Singer was listening in on a private conversation between me and my wife Beverly last week! The title of the article is: “Don’t Believe Everything You Hear: Why There is More Opportunity Today, Not Less.” He says many powerful things that lit my fire but the portion that focused on “Six Ways You Can Go Down with the Economy” really resonated with me:

1. Stay glued to the news
2. Stay confused
3. Believe you cannot sell or don’t have to sell (cast vision and provide leadership)
4. Look for quick fixes instead of mastering your “little voice” (the war between your ears)
5. Blame Wall Street, the government or bankers
6. Believe the government or the Federal Reserve will fix everything

Well, you will need to buy the magazine to get the details but suffice it to say that I completely agree. I think there are a lot of preachers out there claiming that “the end is coming” but I believe God is at work in the midst of the chaos. How can I be so confident? I read my bible and He has consistently been doing that for thousands of years!

We need to listen not only to the “little voice” but the “BIG VOICE-HIS VOICE” which never stops speaking to us about our dreams, our futures and the plans that God has for each of us! God not only works through the tough times but He excels in making His plans and the dreams that He has placed in our hearts–the God-dreams, to explode during times like these! Sure, we need to be concerned and help those who are suffering but we do not need to embrace the message of the media and the world! We need to be God’s spoke persons and step up in days like these! You have the skills as a Lifeforming Coach to make a difference in this world one person at a time and one conversation at a time!

Please be in prayer for us this month! We are sending out the invitations for the global leaders to register for the upcoming 1st ever Lifeforming Leadership Coaching Global Summit! Pray that God will prompt the leaders that He wants to be there and provide for each of them to have the will, time and finances to come and help our coaching movement spread to every nation on the planet! Have a great 2009!

Sam Scaggs
International Director

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Networking Opportunity Announcement!

Dr. Umidi will be joining Dr. Earl Brown in Lifeforming’s Central Florida Training Center for a series of meetings on 7m Coaching and Real Talk Training February 10-11.

Kingdom Business Network Luncheon
Fred’s Market Restaurant
2120 Harden Blvd
Lakeland, Florida 33803

For addtitonal training locations and more information contact Dr. Earl Brown at 863-808-9596 or 863-286-1738. Email: earl@hopecoaching.org

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Important Dates for Currently Enrolled Professional Program Trainees

Formation January 2009
Orientation
Janauary 13, 2009
7-9pm EST on the Bridgeline

GROW Model Tele-Class
March 9, 2009
12-1pm EST on the Bridgeline

Life Focus January 2009
Orientation
January 14, 2009
7-9 EST on the Bridgeline

Implementation January 2009
Orientation
January 15, 2009
7-9pm EST on the Bridgeline

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Training Quote of the Month

“I learned the power of short open questions and silence. I wanted to speak what I was sensing and wanted to interject my thought at least a dozen times. I learned if I remain quiet and the client is comfortable, she will speak.”

-Implementation Trainee

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Phone Numbers

We are aware that some of the phone numbers in our training manuals no longer reflect our current office numbers. When calling our office please use the numbers listed below:

Lifeforming Office Number
1-888-852-2234
757-631-4440

Additional Important Phone Numbers:
Bridge Line
1-605-475-6407
access code 9348#

Bridge Line
Recorded Sessions
1-605-475-6457
access code 9348#
relavant file number

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Thank you for being a part of our coaching community. Please let us know if we can serve you in any way.

Blessings for divine breakthroughs and provision!

Joseph, Sam, John, Lyn & Rebekah
Lifeforming Leadership Coaching | Box 64394 | Virginia Beach | VA | 23467

Lifeforming Leadership Coaching
101 North Lynnhaven Road, Suite 304, Virginia Beach, VA 23456
Office 757.631.4440, Fax 757.631.4448
www.lifeformingcoach.com

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