NCCA Planning Meeting Notes

13 August 2004

Attendees

Mandy is closing in on the differences between the Quicken log and the bank statements

John made contact with JJ, of the Northern Colorado Economic Development Council – www.ncedc.com
- They’re a non-profit, trying to encourage new companies to move to the area
- He will talk about marketing – what he’s seeing in the area of new business development, how we can hook up to offer services to these new companies
- More information is on their website, look at the latest newsletter
- What do they do before the company comes (to attract them) and after (to support them and help them grow)
Pat will be the highlighted “focus on the coach”
Joan will do the fun activity – describe our coaching services in terms of an animal

October and beyond

Some people (John, Lynne, Jeff) focus on specific issue areas for clients - we could ask them to talk about how they do this, how it works with their marketing, whether they stick to that issue area, how much of it ends up being education. Possible questions:
- What's your approach?
- How do you use it in your marketing?
- What's the value it brings to your client?
- How does it affect your coach approach?
- The particular challenges with that kind of approach
Tapping into passions
- Motivational-type speaker
- Mandy's example of relating kayaking to overcoming fears
- Closing the gap between work and passion
- To what extent is the passion just a daydream?
- Example: Artist who feels tied up in the day-to-day assignments and can't get the juices flowing for the passionate project
- We'll mention this in the August meeting and
November meeting
- We'll check to see if people would like to have a November meeting, probably on the 18th.
- We could do the "tapping into passions" at that meeting or perhaps in January
December party
- We'll propose the afternoon of Saturday December 11th at Joan's house in Redstone canyon.
- Joan would like to do it if people don't think it's too far out of town or the autumn travel might be a problem.

BCA is bringing in Julio Olalla on December 16th and would like us to help out. Sue is getting more details.
Sue was trying to find out how BCA engaged with University of Phoenix.
- Several coaches had a table and gave out flyers on coaching services and got zero response
- Their information didn't get put in the graduation information packet
- There's some sensitivity to UofP and CSU about not wanting to promote companies who are trying to make money - they want to be seen as fair and even-handed, not promoting a particular company or service

Sue went to this teleconference
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Carl and Mandy worked through the list of current/past/possible members
Carl sent out e-mails to everybody who needs to get current with NCCA and/or ICF, or to answer some questions