NCCA Notes and Newsletter

25 March 2004

Attendees

Current members: John, Mandy, Anne, Lynne, Carl, Sue, Joan, Christine

New visitors: Jeff, Luci, Clay, Sharon

Introductions - new people

• Sharon Roberts: not a professional coach, lot of leadership roles in different organizations, chaired every kind of event imaginable, has coached friends informally, has been encouraged to get "official coach" title, joined ToastMasters
• Jeff Myers: left high tech, took severance package, intended to do wellness focus initially, now coaching people, coaches diabetics, informally coaching and setting up business processes, signing up with Academy for Coach Training in WA "Living Your Vision"
• Luci Capo Rome: Reiki practitioner (energy work, touch therapy, reduce stress, relaxation), coaches patients in health care, advanced practice nurse, networked with Dawn Duncan and Martha Conant, have brochure out in couple weeks, participate in FC Metaphysical Fair end April
• Clay Robano: Rafting instructor, corporate background in San Diego, worked in Antarctica, taught for National Outdoor Leadership School, Estes Park climbing school Eagle Rock, how to use coaching with real live outdoor sports

Announcements

• Joan’s new book "Cellular Wisdom" is now out, doing a workshop "Wisdom Perspective" June 25, if you’re interested contact Joan since space is limited, also doing in Bethesda MD in May, From cellular to planetary dimensions of wisdom, interpersonal relationships, synergize individual actions with people who are on similar spiritual path
• John working with Coloradoan on jobs being offshored, 34% of people in CollectiveNet attribute their job loss to offshoring, article should be published in next few days
• John going to Lead South Dakota this summer, sponsor at work camp rebuilding houses, coaching ~10 young men on how to do their project
• Carl's book sales have been ramping up, he's doing a book signing on 15 May at 2:00 at the Book Rack in Loveland
• Carl got accepted as a coach in the HP leadership development program
• Sharon has contacts on how to get the word out about your events
• Jeff part of task force putting on health & wellness summit June 22 in FC, sponsored by NC business report, will focus on wellness and funding
• Sharon has chuckwagon catering business, doing a 2.5 week wagon train from Wyoming ending in Greeley on July 4^th, contact her if you’re interested.  It really is an adventure!
• Anne has launched her river retreats:  family experience June 4-7 on San Juan river, including negotiating family conflicts and empowering children;  couples trip July 5-8 on San Juan river;  Individual trip waiting on dates
• Christine is starting a "tele-circle" for women, www.hawkview.net
• Everybody needs to pay their yearly dues

KRFC 88.9 Radio - Anne

• Anne, John, Lynne have been meeting to create a call-in coaching talk show
• Have been practicing mock laser coaching on teleconference
• Spend some time critiquing each other, it’s helping me to become a better coach
• We’re going to set up a regular time: To be announced shortly
• We’ve learned some of the nuts & bolts about handling callers, getting the right "tone" for the show, how we want the listener to feel/react to the show.  Clearly we’re about service, moving people forward in their lives
• We’ve gotten feedback that KRFC is interested but no time is set up yet
• We’re learning a LOT
• We want to develop a final proposal in about 2 months
• The station manager has a good relationship with her coach which helps a lot
• They’re looking for a diversity of voices and approaches for the station

Leadership - Christine

• Next month we will be passing the torch to the new leadership team
• Carl will continue as Secretary
• Bobbie will continue as membership liaison
• Martha has been treasurer, Christine has been president & thing 1, Lynne has been vice president & thing 2
• We’re having problems getting people to volunteer
• Christine has been acting as the ICF contact person, there’s lots of emails that happen in connection with this – this would be a great opportunity for someone who wants to be connected with what’s happening with the ICF
• Treasurer job is not a lot of time, maybe 15 minutes a month
• The roles and responsibilities are extremely flexible
• Lynne is willing to continue to host meetings at her house
• We don’t really do voting, we do affirmations to support people who have volunteered to do certain roles
• Anne might be interested in doing a role for a few months
• Joan wants to nominate Sue for a role, she’s a good project director
• Sue would be happy to play a role, but can be difficult when she has to travel.  Not interested in the ICF e-mail thing
• John would be interested in being an e-mail contact, perhaps being a thing 2
• Anne is very interested in creating a listening space for each of us in the group
• Sue and Anne willing to share a leadership role?
• Joan would volunteer to be in the background, a supporter, a consultant
• Mandy is interested in treasurer, will contact Martha, no commitments yet
• Next: Christine to work with Carl to send out an affirmation solicitation once Christine closes with the volunteers on the new roles
• New leadership will be announced at next meeting

What would you like to get out of this group this year?

• Bobbie/ Sharing learnings about coaching.  What works for us in our coaching.  Difficult to attract outside speakers.  We’ve been invited by BCA to join them at presentations they have
• Joan/ Use it as an exploratory group.  For instance I’m looking into group coaching and want to develop the idea, exploring and evaluating, using the group as advisors.  Keep the group a safe place for new ideas.
• Jeff/ Coaches will grow if there’s new places to learn and be successful.  Getting expert advice about building a business, helping each other out.  Understanding what each person does so we can point people to the right place of expertise in the group.
• Anne/ Garner the expert advice that exists in our circle.  Helping each other.  Getting to know each other, finding resources, supporting.
• Luci/ Offering pearls to each other
• John/ Irene organized the summer coaching league.  It was hard to get consistency even though people wanted to follow through.  It was wonderful when we did that.  Maybe we should focus more on that this summer to stay more connected with each other.  Summer would be a great time to do that, things tend to be "down" during the summer.
• Anne/ Maybe reserve some time at our meetings to have some of these one-on-one conversations?
• Sue/ Bring in people from the outside when we can get people who know what they’re doing.
• Sue/ I’d love to get connected with other organizations.  Other networking groups
• Carl/ I saw this work well in the HP Coaching Network.
• Sharon / Use group as "my board of directors", I could share and get feedback and advice.  Without any one person monopolizing the time.  We could all share our ideas with each other.  Kind of a "mastermind group".
• Sharon/ I know a person [Adrian] who is phenomenal about marketing, has a real passion about helping people in this area.
• Clay/ What is preventing people who aren’t here today from participating?  What do they need?  Joan/ We’re going to probe into this in the next month, sending out a message asking for feedback and advice.
• Christine/ Talk more about this profession of coaching.  What are the big questions we need to tackle?  How will this mature?
• Christine/ Have a mentoring setup, maybe every third meeting we focus on mentoring.
• Joan/ We had some opportunities for a few of us to get together to focus on spiritual coaching, that was great.
• Joan will send out query to the group through Carl, please email thoughts to Joan
• Christine/ I’d like to have membership require people to be a little more engaged in the group, not just a member in name only.  Joan and Bobbie will be looking into this issue and ask everyone for advice.
• John/ It can be great for people to come in to meetings when they need the support.  But we do need peoples’ involvement to make this group work.  Not all the time, but show up SOMEhow.
• Anne/ We can look into a different meeting format, even teleconference, some people might really love that.
• Joan/ We might be able to get some of the more experienced coaches to be here for a meeting focused on mentoring.  Might have to be in the evening.
• Joan/ We definitely want feedback on time of meetings
• Clay/ I’ll be traveling a lot of time, it can make it tough for me to be physically at meetings.  We should look at ways of interacting outside of meetings.  Maybe leverage Boulder group’s presentations.
• Luci/ How about breakfast meetings?
• Christine/ We could periodically have meetings via teleconference, it’s easier for people to do logistically
• Lynne/ And have a few parties a year.
• Joan/ After our renovation is done, we could host a party at my place.
• John/ In the Fall, have coaches come to NoCoNet to coach again?
• Joan/ We’ll have an indepth discussion of this topic next month.

Announcements from Loveland, Denver and Boulder:

Gloria Willis is presenting at the Larimer County Roundtable on April 15 at 8 am.  Topic is: Positioning Your Business for Success.

Is your business "positioned for success?"  This workshop will help you identify ways to position your business to compete more effectively in your target market for greater leverage. We will explore five ways to position your company in the marketplace, help you identify your unique product or service, illustrate how to integrate customer expectations into your strategic planning and offer practical business examples for bottom line results.  This workshop is free to the public and especially designed for the small business person.

The Center for Business Mastery presents its monthly mini-workshop for March

Topic: Public Relations Basics
Date: Thursday, March 25
Time: doors open at 8:45 a.m., workshop runs 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Location: Dorothy's Catering in Loveland at 2248 W. 1st Street.
Networking, coffee and donuts beginning at 8:45 a.m.

Would you like to share news about your business with the local media? Do you know where to start? Learn the basics of public relations, including how to preparing a news release. Participants will outline and create a rough draft of a news release featuring their business.

Presented by Brad Shannon, Shannon Marketing Communications

$18, with a $3 discount if you bring a guest

To pre-register, or for questions or details, call 970-482-0332, or e-mail info@gloriawillis.com.

Brad Shannon
Shannon Marketing Communications
Public Relations & Marketing Communications Services
strategy - writing - editing - results
(970) 461-4906
(970) 420-8793 (cell)
efax: (501) 637-1307
brad@shannonmarcom.com

Learn How to Live Without Fear

Learn how to reach your full potential and step beyond fear.  Rhonda Britten, author of Fearless Living and Change Your Life in 30 Days, and the life coach for the ABC daytime reality show, “Starting Over”, will be sharing her philosophies and techniques on how to make powerful, profound, and phenomenal changes in your life and with your coaching clients.   

If you are a coach, this is a great chance to learn more about how to use Rhonda’s techniques in your own business. Rhonda will open the room for Q & A.

Please join us for an intimate evening with Rhonda Britten.

Thursday, April 8, 2004
General Meeting starts at 7:00pm sharp
Cost: $10.00 (for non-DCF members)

Loews Denver Hotel (in the Verona Room)
4150 East Mississippi Avenue
Denver, CO

(The Loews Hotel is east of the intersection of  Colorado Blvd. and Mississippi Avenue.)

For more information, please visit us at www.denvercoach.com
Please RSVP with Dave Meyer at dave@coachingfortomorrow.com
If you need a place to stay for the night, feel free to contact Kelly Harrell at kelly@thrivenetwork.com

Featured Speaker Laurie Taylor, a co-founder or the Origin Institute, will be speaking at our monthly meeting on ‘Cracking the Code to Your Company’s Growth’.  Free to members.  $10 for non-members.

Monday, 3/29/04   6:30 – 9:00pm at the Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28^th Street, Boulder.   

If you need any additional information about these events, contact me at 303-440-0490.

Ted Ringer
BCA Public Relations

WHEN: Friday, April 23, 2004   8:00 am - 4:00 pm

WHERE:  Arapahoe/Douglas County Workforce Center, Denver, Colorado (click here for directions)

COST: $85 - CCDA Members     $105 - Non-Members (For which $20 may be applied towards a $50 CCDA membership on the day of the conference)
*Discounts available:  15% off total for a group of 3 or more from the same organization / 15% off total for full-time students
 

Deadline to register: Wed, April 14, 2004

ABOUT THE TRAINING AND PRESENTER:
To win the battle for talent, today's leaders must work effectively with a diverse workforce.  Claire Raines is the nation's leading expert on the generations at work.  She is the only speaker & trainer with five business books on the generations.  Claire has been featured widely in the media, including CNN Financial News, the Today Show, Business Week, and Fast Company.  She created the board game "Connecting Generations" (tm) and has hosted three training videos about the generations at work.  Her speeches and seminars help business leaders, managers, salespeople, team members, and customer service representatives achieve better results with real-life business challenges.  She will tailor her workshop to the issues and challenges of counselors and employment specialists in assisting a diverse workforce population.  For more information about the trainer, visit www.generationsatwork.com .  Please contact Leslie Cancilla at lcancilla@bridges.com for any questions.  Click here for a registration form. *Pre-registration is highly encouraged—registering the day of the conference will cost an additional $10.00.

AGENDA

8:00-8:30am            Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45am            Welcome and Introductions
8:45-11:45am          Program - Part I
                                -Connecting Generations Overview
                                -Diversity Concepts
                                -The Generations
                                -Applying Generational Concepts
11:45am-1:00pm     Lunch and CCDA Business Meeting
1:00-4:00pm            Program - Part II
                                -Generations in the Workplace Video and Coaching Activity
                                -How to Identify an Organization's Generational Focus
                                -Titanium Communication Strategy