NCCA Meeting Minutes

28 August 2003
Lone Star Steakhouse

Attending

• Bobbie, Christine, Joan, Ann Clarke, Carmen, Carl, Dianne, John, Irene, Sue, Ann

Check-in

• Carl: I’ve been working on my book – it’s going to be published imminently.  Growth: I’ve learned so much about publishing, writing and marketing!  Check out www.dierschow.com
• Dainne: I went to the Evidence Based Coaching conference in Australia.  Growth: It was fun to be a “big wig”!  I also met my goal to complete my first 100 mile bicycle ride!
• Irene: I’ve been playing a lot of golf in the EWGA and will play in the Nationals.  I’ve been working on the Coaching Research Symposium, it’s really going.  26 submissions for papers, doubled the number of speakers, 35 people registered already.  The meeting is the day before the ICF conference.  $99 includes printed proceedings.  She will give a $30 discount to anyone who volunteers to help
• John: I finished my CTI training in June and have been developing community.  I’ve been an organizer for NoCoNet.  130 members, about one person a week getting a job.  It’s personally rewarding to see my ideas on organization and meetings can help make the group more alive and enjoyable.  We got a writeup in the paper and the Business Report this month.
• Christine: I’ve taken on a facilitation role with the Colorado Coalition of Coaches, the group to impact legislation around Therapy and Coaching.  The group is now moving quickly.  I’ve learned a lot about leading and facilitating.  My client list is growing rapidly which has pushed me to a whole new level.
• Joan: I had a problem with my publisher who wanted to throw all the illustrations out of my book, it hurt my ego.  I decided to handle it by creating a website with meditations around each illustration.  The growth for me was to stop letting my ego drive things and learned a lot.
• Bobbie: I had a whole lot of stop, look and listen experiences this summer.  I’ve been reading a lot, started a new women’s group, and have reflected and absorbed this summer, resulting in a burst of energy.  A lot of internal growth this year.
• Carmen: I decided to get darker and hung out at the pool.  I broke away from a lot of organizations, reflected, and focused on what’s really important to me.  I joined Business Network International and it helped to create some energy.  I did a paid workshop for them.  Coaching now is no longer a hobby for me.

ICF Conference - Christine

• We had our brainstorming session about how we could contribute to the conference.
• The Boulder and Denver chapters were excited about the ideas and wanted to do ALL of them(!)
• We need to gauge level of involvement of NCCA people, what are we willing to commit
• The intention is to do volunteer activities outside the normal presentation times
• Irene and Dianne are heavily involved in their existing activities and will be there and help
• Christine passed out a list and will send out an e-mail for the people who weren’t at today’s meeting
• We could need money for: Welcome center, oxygen bar, water, etc.  Maybe we could ask for donations in some areas?  We can ask Boulder and Denver to contribute more proportionately based on the size of the groups.
• Christine will talk to Martha and have the leadership circle decide how much we want to use for these activities.
• We need:
  • Chair for greeting committee
  • Chair for welcome ambassador committee
  • Chair for call center (if we do that)
  • Chair for Colorado Coaches booth
  • Volunteers to help Margaret with conference planning
  • Volunteers for many other areas

Legislation - Christine

• The Colorado Coalition of Coaches is working on a plan, to try to make coaches exempt from the laws governing therapy
• This is going to be a very major deal, we need to hire a lobbyist - $25,000+
• Perhaps we’ll get some help from Thomas Leonard’s estate
• We need a Tax ID number to use to make this happen, Christine would like to use the NCCA Tax ID
• In the meeting we voted to let them use our number, Christine will oversee to make sure there’s no issues that arise
• There may be a request coming out soon to ask for donations, not tax deductible
• Christine will see how our group’s legal status might affect this

Maggie Carter’s Seminar

• Maggie is doing a seminar and we agreed to let her send one e-mail message through Carl to the distribution list
• The leadership circle can create any kind of policy about how much e-mail we send out to people on our distribution list – Carl will draft this

Coaching Effectiveness Study through Regis

• Dianne needs PCC/MCC level coaches who would volunteer to participate in the study.  It’s not a big time commitment.
• Contact Dianne < dstober@mindspring.com > if you’re interested.

Simply Outrageous Networking – Ann Clarke

Ann’s website is www.annclarke.com

Topics we covered:

• What is networking?
• Where do you network?  Much more than formal networking groups!
• Put your picture on your business card!  And everything else.
• CREATIVITY is not hard or expensive
• Personalized (with some character) name tags are a conversation starter
• Professional, competent, consistent
• You never know where business will come from – anywhere, any time
• Always have a camera with you, you never know where a photo might be useful and help connect with people, it helps make you more memorable
• We did an exercise of creating a personal bookmark
• A personalized gift that you can handout which can be useful
• Pets or small children have an emotional attachment
• Be in contact with people OFTEN
• As a coach YOU are the product.  Keep the contact, work it.
• Create a marketing plan which is a year in advance, have networking be a big part of the plan
• Ann has a networking newsletter on her website just targeted at Northern Colorado, it helps make her a resource in her focus area
• Always have a product to give people

Next Meeting

• The next leadership circle is 11 September
• The next membership meeting is 25 September
• Carl will Facilitate