Friday 18 January 2008

Advantara® Gets New Name, Graduates New Associates

Exciting things are happening at Advantara® these days! We're expanding rapidly to support the combined learning strategies of global organizations and their executives, and our new name, Advantara® Global Executive Learning and Coach Training Institute, reflects this. Soon we'll have important new announcements about additional offerings.

As we revamp our logo and website, we are also graduating new professionals from our Global Executive Coach Training Programs. At the end of December, Andreas Stoy of Germany and Inger Christoffersen of Florence, Italy, finished the program and have joined Maria Fernanda Corral of Ecuador, Sabine Amend of Germany and Colorado USA, C.H. Chen of Taiwan, Maureen Rabotin of Paris and West Palm Beach USA, and Irene Öhler (originally of Vienna) of Brasilia as graduates. Participants in this advanced global executive coach training have completed over 150 hours of training and ten hours of mentoring, and have had coaching practice in most of their class meetings, role playing typical situations encountered by global executive coaches. Part of their training is the Certification in High Impact Teaming. The next step for Advantara® Graduates is to go through the Certification process as a Certified Global Executive Coach. New program participants will go through the whole process from start to finish rather than doing it as a separate process. Currently Louise Evans (English and Welsh, living in Florence), Anne Stenbom (English living in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and sons), Maria Jicheva (originally from Bulgaria, now living in London), Caroline Berry (American living in London), Margret Steixner (Austrian living in Uganda) and Jeff Cone (American living in Boston area), and Beverley Robinson (English living in Brussels) are working toward Graduation. Advantara®'s coaches may be invited to join our global coaching and consulting team.

Maria Fernanda Corral and Irene Öhler are in the Developing Faculty Program. Advantara®'s Founding Director, Hannah S. Wilder, is currently working worldwide with clients, building up the network of highly trained coaches and associates, developing strategic partnerships, and writing three books on various aspects of global executive coaching, so she relies on well trained faculty members to provide variety with high level continuity in the program.

Currently Advantara® program participants are discovering just how complex and interesting ethics in coaching worldwide can be, and are also developing deep presence through an eight week module High Awareness Coaching (C), in which they develop personal practices that they can then share with global executives living a fast paced and complex existence. This will make it possible for them to be with their clients, matching energy levels while entraining to remain calm and clear headed under pressure, competing demands for attention, and sometimes - chaos! (Think of the environmental changes and economic uncertainty in flux these days).

Advantara® Global Executive Learning Center and Coach Training Institute's website is currently being redesigned by Rodrigo Lopes of Sao Paolo, Brazil, and we're excited about how things are going. In the coming weeks we'll be posting news and writing about being a global executive, coaching global executives, combining learning approaches, and training to be a global executive coach.

The short version of How Do I Become a Global Executive Coach? is: a vacation or period of residence abroad plus reading a few books is not enough, nor is a three day training for experienced coaches. At Advantara® Global we consider Global Executive Coaching a profession in itself, and our graduates and associates are skilled not only in distinguishing different executive learning approaches but in combining them in a conscious and effective way for each client. For example, did you know that executives who attend a training change by 22.4 percent (because this learning is quick, involves ideas and concepts which are learned in the neo-cortex of the brain - it's like getting the "map") while adding even a few months of coaching addresses a totally different part of the brain, the limbic, where attitudes, behaviors, and even emotions are changed -- with practice, repetition, and feedback. Adding coaching to training quadruples your learning 9raising the change level to almost 90%) and makes it stick, giving the effect of taking the map and walking through the territory with someone who doesn't guide you, but rather supports you in finding your way...so that you own your learning and your decisions, and will never lose them! In fact, you can use them again in new situations. Such coaching is also an effective way of learning to lead, for it can save time and ease succession management. More about that in future postings!


For more information about how Advantara® can support your corporation's learning, contact us at HSW@Advantara.com. We create internal coach training programs for corporations as well. You may not have to spend a lot on developing your own internal Corporate University. Advantara® can do it for you!
Copyright January 18, 2008 Hannah S. Wilder