NCCA Planning Meeting Notes

14 January 2005

Attendees

• Carl, Sue, Mandy, John, Joan

Bartering

• Carl thought there was an ICF statement which supports barter, as long as it’s documented and fair value
• John: Rate sheet, intention
• Bartering is not Pro Bono or Volunteer – Bartering is paid

Financial report

• Carl to send Mandy a PayPal report showing the transactions in 2004
• We have no categorization of the total in our bank account
• We do have categories on each transaction in or out of the account
• Mandy to update the financial report, include the Paypal information, include a little more information on assets (none) and nature of income/outflow
• Sue: We should invest more, perhaps in advertising our group.
• Joan: We took a 1 page in the Healing Path for the women’s group
• People draw people, organizations don’t draw people
• So perhaps a group photo or picture of a meeting?
• This is a discussion we should have – whether to advertise

Donna Beaman (sp?) from ASTD is interested in the group, we’ve invited her to the group meeting

Quid Pro Quo coaching

• See the information John sent out this week to leadership team
• John would like to talk about this at the monthly meeting
• With 4 or 5 clients a year, it’s not too hard to start getting lots of coaching hours
• The ACC expires after 3 years, at which point you have to go for PCC or MCC
• ACC requires 250 hours of coaching, and 60 hours of ICF accredited training
• CTI’s program is 116 hours of accredited training
• Why would anyone get an ACC? Because you don’t have the hours to get PCC; to show a level of credentialing; to act as an officer
• It would be good to have someone give a good presentation on different kinds and levels of credentialing
• QPQ is a way of accruing more hours, of expanding list of clients
• QPQ has to be as bona fide as “regular” coaching. Same enrollment process, covered by coaching contract.
• It needs to be an actual, rigorous, coaching relationship
• Duration of coaching relationship can be specified as “open ended”
• A coaching contract is also for the coach’s legal protection
• QPQ means there’s an even exchange of value, but our program can focus more on the matching service between coaches. There are several different models of relationship: Pro Bono, Coaching for Coaching, Paid, Barter.
• All this is a matching service, and it’s up to the people to evaluate and pick which type of relationship they want to engage in.
• The purpose of this is to help the members (coaching experience and advance toward credential), not just an issue because of our chapter status
• John will expand his document to talk about the matching service and the various models that people can use in a matched coaching relationship.

Membership meeting agenda

• Suggestion of having someone present on credentialing
• The number of hours, start and end date, are sufficient. Not needed to have documentation of time of each and every hour
• Would be useful to see an example, Joan would be willing to bring her log
• John: The Coaching Compass software is excellent as a practice management tool
• 12:00 Joan – welcome & fun
• 12:15 Check-in
• 12:35 Closing the gap between passions and work
• Is there a fragmentation between where your passion lies and what you do for work?
• Are your clients struggling with this? This can be for us personally as coaches or for our clients.
• Do you have a gap between your intentions/desires and your accomplishments?
• Tapping the passion and energy
• 1:30 Chapter business
• ICF chapter requirements – introducing the topic
• Expansion Coaching (John – outgrowth of QPQ)
• Future meetings (Feb: Ann Strong; Mar: Dianne Stober)
• Julio Olalla – two things
• Finances
• Activity status
• Mention coaching week
• The plan for this meeting is to have the group co-create the program

ICF Chapter discussion

• Reference the matrix Sue sent out
• We won’t send out an e-mail description of the whole topic before this next meeting
• Sue will create an introduction of this topic for the meeting (context, logic, ICF’s stance, etc.)
• Carl to include a mention of this topic in the invitation
• The major discussion is being ICF associated or not
• How many of our people are currently working toward a credential?
• It would be a benefit to our chapter to provide classes and coaching opportunities which would help people toward the certification goal.