Dear friends,
On October 1st and 2nd, The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO) held the XII Global ICCO Symposium “Coaching for Change Management in Hard Times” in San José, Costa Rica, sponsored by Bayer AG CA-C.
The colorful coaching savvy group from 10 Latin American countries and the US built a gratifying, intense, high-quality growth, learning experience, which seems to have been a landmark, deeply impacting most of the participants’ lives.
Surrounded by exuberant nature, incredible flowers on top of the tallest trees, and the Latin American typical warmth – well balanced with ICCO’s proverbial highest quality / ethical standards and rigorous world class coaches. Regional corporate clients, HR professionals and Business Leaders learned side by side, living in real time the coaching process of real people, and crafting the consulting proposals for real organizational challenge, in the intimacy that has come to be ICCO’s footprint for Symposia.
The whole experience left us all wanting more … and Bogotá, Colombia – the chosen location for the 2010 Symposium – will surely satisfy this strong wish. You are all invited (if you speak Spanish)!
Ramiro Ponce, member of the Board of ICCO and Team Lead for Costa Rica Symposium
“I would like to thank you for the great ICCO Symposium in Costa Rica. This is the second time that I participate with ICCO, my first being with Novartis and now with NISSAN. It was a good opportunity to meet other colleagues (Coaches and HR people) and share with them our Coaching experiences. It has been very useful for me and my company to present our case and receive new ideas and tips that we implemented with great benefit. Thank you again for the invitation, it was a great congress – great value.” – Talent Management Subdirector Nissan Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.
Como soy nuevo en el tema no sabía muy bien saludarles o expresar mi agradecimiento a todos, por esto me tome algo de tiempo para escribirles, la experiencia de la semana pasada marco un cambio en mi vida, debo darles las gracias a todos por plantar en mi las mejores señales de dirección y crecimiento personal que voy a poder disfrutar en mi y con otros. Adquirí compromiso de crecer cada día, humanizar y hacer sensible mi carácter.
(Translation) “Being new to this theme I didn’t really know how to express my thankfulness. That’s why it took me a little time to write you all. Last week’s experience in the Symposium marked a change in my life. I must thank you all for having put in me the best direction with signs and personal seeds for growth. I’ll enjoy this growth in myself as well as with others. I am committed now to grow every day, and to humanize and make my character more sensitive.” – Manufacturing Regional Director – M.E.C.O.
“Como te comenté, hace unos días participé en el Simposio de sobre Coaching Organizacional, el cual fue organizado por ICCO. Realmente fue una experiencia estupenda con gente experta y con calidad humana extraordinaria. A mi juicio es un tema que todos los que tenemos responsabilidades en la Administración de RRHH debemos conocer y practicar….Lo maravilloso de esto es que en el 2010 el simposio será en Bogotá, Colombia. Es una experiencia que merece se aprovecha, principalmente por el poder del ayuda que tiene el coaching para nuestra gente y la organización.” – HR Director of MECO Costa Rica
