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Schedule of Classes and Presentations with Sharon Good    Click here for On-Site Classes  Teleclasses On-Site Classes and Presentations Business Planning and Success Strategies for Creativity Coaches Learn how to start your coaching practice and connect with creative clients. The 8-week class includes weekly assignments and a one-hour weekly teleclass to learn about business start-up, clarifying your coaching niche and target audience, and exploring an array of methods for marketing your practice. This course is part of the Creativity Coaching Association's certification practice. The course is available to CCA certification candidates and members. Includes a complimentary copy of Sharon's book, Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches. Investment: $500 (declared candidates) / $550 (others) Location: Teleseminar Upcoming Classes: 8 Thursdays, January 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, March 1, 8; 1 - 2 pm Eastern To register or get further information, please visit the Creativity Coaching Association website at www.creativitycoachingassociation.com. What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do So many people are dissatisfied with their jobs or careers. They’d love to get out, but they don’t know where to go or how to get there. Learn how to uncover new career possibilities and take the first steps in finding a career that will make you happy. Investment: $25 Location: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street, NYC Upcoming Classes: Monday, February 27, 7 - 8:30 pm To register or get further information, please contact the 92nd Street Y at 212-415-5500. Register online at www.92y.org. Career Coaching Coach career-focused clients on how to take control of their work life. Acquire strategies, tools, and resources for navigating difficult career issues and dilemmas, from exploring occupations to charting radical change. Help clients clarify career goals through a self-exploration process, identify important resources, explore career alternatives, achieve better work-life balance, outline a strategic job-search campaign, and address the challenges of starting a business. Assist clients in developing a proactive career strategy that reflects their passions, values, skills, and practical needs, and learn ways to coach them on common workplace issues. Investment: $895 Location: NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Midtown Center, 11 West 42nd Street, NYC Upcoming Classes: SPRING 2012: April 21 & 28, 9 am - 5 pm To register or get further information, please contact NYU-SCPS at 212-998-7150 or register online at www.scps.nyu.edu/index.jsp (course # COCH1-CE9871). For general class information, call 212-998-7200. This course is applicable to 2 certificate programs: Coaching, Career Planning and Development “It was great to have you as a professor. Your style is warm and allows students to feel comfortable to learn and share.”  ~~ Erica McKim, Dream Collective Coaching “I am amazed at how much fantastic information you've shared with us and am thrilled to be taking your class.  Your approach is pragmatic, broad and complete, and I am constantly impressed by its depth. I find you quite inspiring. Thank you so much for teaching a class that I am positive will help me to grow my coaching business!”  ~~ Karen Elizaga, www.forwardoptions.com   Top Teleclasses (given over the phone via a bridge line that holds a number of people) The Complete Guide to Writing and Publishing a Book Do you have a book inside you that's dying to get out? Do you feel intimidated or overwhelmed about starting to write? Are you completely lost about how to even go about it? With the proliferation of publishing options in this digital world, many people are finding themselves compelled to write a book. Those who want to pursue a professional speaking career are finding that having a published book is essential. But the process can be daunting. In this 4-week teleseminar, coach and writer Sharon Good will demystify the process, showing you how to take your book from conception to publication. You'll learn how to: Define your target audience Strategically choose or frame your topic Gather material and do research Create a writing routine that works for you Deal with emotional issues that get in your way Rewrite and edit Get outside help Understand all the avenues of publishing and how to pursue them Write queries and proposals Work with an Internet self-publisher Market your book The class is packed with valuable information and tips based on Sharon's 21 years' experience as a writer and publisher. Throughout the class, you'll have the opportunity to address questions that will help you to begin or continue working on your book. In addition, you will receive: A PDF workbook with notes pages to make note-taking easier Downloadable recordings of all sessions BONUS: Receive a complimentary ebook copy of Sharon's book, Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches! A $16.95 value. Investment: $299. Bring a friend and save – $249 each! Upcoming Classes: Coming soon as a self-study program! The call-in number for the class will be provided upon registration. REGISTER NOW: Individual $299.00 Register with a friend $249.00 How did you learn about this class? Sharon Good Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter Life Purpose Institute JST Coaching Retirement Options If applicable: friend's name: For additional information or to register directly, contact Sharon at 212-564-2073 or sharon@goodlifecoaching.com. Comments from former participants of this class: "Thanks so much for taking us on this whirlwind tour of bookland! Efficient and thorough – I feel like I've seen the overview of the whole territory and now I'm ready to embark on the journey myself – with confidence!" ~~ Minda Bernstein, www.iListentoSpirit.com "Sharon is the ultimate guru on this subject so far as I am concerned. What a marvelous background and so eager to share the knowledge, right down the smallest bits of information. It has been my experience that the real key to success in any field is to have access to someone who knows the nitty gritty rather than just the big flashy high points. Sharon is so obviously that person. I came away with so much information and resources for more that I could hardly contain myself!" "The class was exactly what I hoped for. Your experience and insight provided valuable information to me as a first time author. I feel the class would be a great foundation to anyone beginning the creative journey of writing." "Your class was very enlightening. Your loving encouragement and vision of confidence for us all was uplifting!" "The presentation was well organized and well paced. With all the information you gave, you still made time to check in with everyone to see whether we had any questions." "You provided lots of positive solutions and feedback; I found that refreshing and encouraging." Get Motivated to Market! Use Your Natural Gifts and Motivated Skills to Market Your Practice   Life coaches and other professional practitioners are often challenged to market their practices with the persistence it takes to get results. By using your natural talents, and doing things you enjoy anyway, you're more likely to market consistently. There are 2 phases to marketing: Knowing what to do Doing it In this course, we'll cover both. We'll review the basics of marketing, clarify your niche and target market, and then work with Sharon's new book, Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches, to look at several ways of creatively marketing your practice, including: Websites E-zines and newsletters Blogs Podcasts Articles Books and e-books Audios and videos Speaking and workshops Additional ways of marketing, including networking and media Throughout the class, you'll have the opportunity to address questions that will help you to refine your marketing strategy, select the best tools for you and customize them for your unique approach. Each week, there will be reading assignments and exercises, and you will commit to taking action steps toward building your marketing strategy. In addition, you will receive: A complimentary ebook copy of Sharon's new book, Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches Downloadable recordings of all sessions Sharon creates an open and supportive environment for exploring your best marketing possibilities. Her gift is to simplify and clarify the different tools and make them doable, whatever your level of marketing ability. You'll come away from this course with concrete tools and steps and the enthusiasm to implement them! Investment: TBA Upcoming Classes: TBA — call or email to get on the waiting list The conference number to call in for the class will be provided upon registration. Enrollment is limited, so claim your space now! For additional information and to register, contact Sharon at 212-564-2073 or sharon@goodlifecoaching.com. To register using Paypal: How did you learn about this class? Sharon Good Life Purpose Institute JST Coaching Retirement Options Other Other: please specify   “This teleclass helped me focus on which marketing tools work best for me. Sharon is professional and knowledgeable and really helped everyone in the class to take positive steps towards their marketing goals. I learned about various marketing tools that I had not thought of previously and was able to hone in and make a plan that will build my busines. It was an informative, exhilarating and fun class. I highly recommend it!”  ~~ Christina McDevitt, Dream Believer Coaching   “The impact of this class has exponentially catapulted my coaching practice to heights that were unobtainable over the last few years. The opportunity to further expand my business using materials from the course and support from my classmates and Sharon encourages me to see and be more. I further endorse her book, Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches, and consider it a must-have for anyone wanting an easy, informative, innovative and fun-filled way to tackle the fundamentals or expand their current coaching practice.”  ~~ Bonita Sontag, Higher Purpose Coaching     “The auditory and personal nature of the tele-course made it far more impactful than just reading your stellar manual, vociferous reader that I am. Thank you for providing this. It is exactly the framework and guidance I needed.”  ~~ Diane Herbert, Life Choices Coaching   Are you a professional coach, healer, consultant or other type of private practitioner? Do you feel stuck with your marketing? Don't have time to take a class? Click here to learn how to schedule a one-on-one marketing consultation with Sharon Good and receive a FREE copy of Creative Marketing Tools for Coaches. Top Life Purpose Institute Coach Certification Program Get trained to be a life and career coach, and clarify your own career path! For over 20 years, the Life Purpose Institute has helped people discover their life purpose. Through this powerful, intimate training, you can learn to coach people to create a life they love. In the 17-week phone training, you'll learn to become a life, career and life purpose coach from the comfort of your home. Over the course of the training, you'll learn and practice the skills, with the support of your instructor and a group of 6 to 8 classmates. New trainings with Sharon are starting on the following dates: Tuesdays at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT) starting January 24 For information and to register for the free introductory class, go to www.lifepurposeinstitute.com, call 858-484-3400, or send an email to support@lifepurposinstitute.com. “Sharon Good receives the highest accolades from her students. She is an excellent instructor. Her students recognize her brilliance, warmth, clarity and depth of insight. Sharon goes the extra mile and brings her personal touch to each and every student. She is a rare human being who touches her students' lives forever.“ ~~ Fern Gorin, M.A., Director, The Life Purpose Institute “Sharon was my instructor at the Life Purpose Institute. Sharon is so knowledgeable and passionate about the profession of coaching and really engages her students. She is creative and offers some of the best ideas to market yourself as a coach and think outside the box regarding life and careers. I consider myself lucky to have studied under Sharon and look to her for inspiration.” ~~ Paige Carbone “Experiencing Sharon as a coaching education instructor will go down in my life history as a singular opportunity to learn from a 'master.' Her incredible depth of knowledge of coaching skills, her heightened sensitivity to and awareness of my needs both as a student and as a person, and her amazing ability to lead our class in learning the unique and sophisticated Life Purpose Process in just 17 weeks reflect her high level of both professional and personal competence. She’s the person I’d like most to be…“ ~~ Barbara W. Deery “Wow! I learned a lot! You are an amazing teacher! You and your class have allowed me to move on to the next chapter of my life. I will be forever grateful!!!“ ~~ Pam Ketterer “You are really a great instructor and so easy to listen to! I've attended all kinds of teleclasses and you do a really nice job.“ ~~ Barbara G. Top Testimonials: "I love your teaching style. You are just perfect. Your classes are an amazing blend of creativity, knowledge, fun and interaction." ~~ Marianna Lead, Ph.D., President, International Coach Federation, NYC Chapter "Sharon Good's workshop, Getting Focused in a Busy, Demanding World, was right on the mark. Her presentation was engaging and informative, and she was well-received by attendees. She is a very approachable speaker, with a style that is welcoming as well as well-informed." ~~ Robin Gorman Newman, Founder/Executive Director, Independent Business Women's Circle of Womanspace in Great Neck "Taking this little class made publishing a book a little bit more doable. You certainly offered a very thorough, organized and informative class, and the handouts will be excellent to refer to." ~~ Pamela Stern Top