NCCA Meeting

23 June 2005

Attendees

• Donna Beaman, Susan, Tim Musslewhite, Joan, Gloria, John, Carmen, Margaret Graham, Sue, Lloyd

Introductions

• Margaret/ I would like to enter and complete certification program with CTI. I'm focusing on women, wellness, weight loss, body image. I'd like to do 2 groups in the fall and 2 in the spring.
• Lloyd/ I'm completing a second book called "Passionate Living". I'm going to be working with a program at the Cheyenne school district in Wyoming, to unite them in a common purpose - a culture of character. Resources: CharacterFirst in Oklahoma City, Parents in Partnership out of CSU, character development resources from Courtland NY
• Donna/ My Franchisor has heard concerns about the need of the franchisees for a series of group coaching workshops, it kind of incorporates everything we do.
• Carl/ I'm working on creating a position of coaching/mentoring leadership across the whole of HP
• Sue/ My focus will be organizational coaching. I want to establish relationships with a few key organizations. I'm working on formalizing my offerings.
• Susan/ I'm expanding my website, developing some seminars, and will need to market them. I'm writing a booklet "8 steps to success in your life plan". I'm wanting to focus more on groups, and have been making contacts. And as always, the quest of marketing, marketing, marketing.
• Joan/ I've just hired a marketing person to market my book, "Cellular Wisdom." I'm going to the bookseller's convention in Denver this weekend. I need to further develop the concepts in the second half of the book, working with eWomen Network. I want to go for my MCC, taking more classes. I'm leveraging assessments into some of my programs.
• Gloria/ I'm developing a niche in the financial industry, people skills, leadership. I'm sending out the first newsletter to that group on Monday. I'm developing about 10 different products to sell, am investigating audio CDs, and am adding an audio stream to my website.
• Tim/ I work with pastors and ministry leaders, and am a former and part-time pastor myself.
• Carmen/ I'm being pulled to energy and spiritual coaching, my information is being received quite well. I got the idea of doing a coaching e-postcard, and have had about 30 people sign up for it so far. The first one should go out July 1. I'd like to increase the size of the mailing list for this, if you have ideas.
• John/ I'm working with a group of coaches around the country on group coaching for people with ADD/ADHD. We're trying to figure out how group coaching works in this venue, to create a set of guidelines for special needs group coaches. I'd like to figure out where this can go.

Announcements

• Sue/ I'm on the board of directors for the Namaqua Center. September 16th we're doing a fundraiser event, and we're looking for: (1) donations for silent auction; (2) sponsorship donations (can be tax deductible). Contact Sue Taigman <staigman@lpbroadband.net> if you're interested or have pointers.
• Joan/ Bixpo is September 15-16, the Northern Colorado Business Report is setting it up. Would we want to get an NCCA table for $500?
• John/ My wife is walking in the breast cancer walk this weekend. If you'd like to support her, contact John Spencer.
• Carmen/ I have a little cat who needs a home.

Fun Activity

• "You have a client who just did something great, which caused you to give them this cookie. What was it?"

CRG Assessments - Joan

• I did the Consulting Resources Group class in Vancouver this last weekend - 3 long days, quite intensive. www.crgleader.com
• I did the Personal Style Indicator assessment. What comes out of this is a profile that looks at 3 dimensions: Verbal/nonverbal, influence/influenced by, task/people. This comes out with 4 types.
  • I like that it identifies your style, and secondary characteristics. It highlights how you interact with others and difficulties that might arise. It also teaches you how to shift your style.
  • Joan has access codes for you to take the Personal Style Indicator, contact her <joanking@beyond-success.com> if you would like to try it out.
• I also did a Job Style Indicator, and there's one on sales too. That's important because we're all called upon to do sales and marketing for our businesses. I took the leadership indicator.
• There's at least 8 indicators total, but they'll be listed on the website.
• Each can also be done as a 360.
• Each costs $25 to take. You can become an associate for free.
• They have a new program called Team Lead, can be used for every person in the team.
• We did a good exercise, of telling another coach how we interpreted our reports, and then interpreting back as a coach.
• I paid $1600 for the training, 30 CEUs plus travel, but they had a 100% guarantee. I'm very enthusiastic about this.
• You can request that both the coach and client get a copy of the report.
• I've found that I get slightly different results from this versus the Myers-Briggs. They're trying hard to make this practical and immediately applicable to shifts in style and approach.
• I'm planning to develop programs around a couple of these.
• Carmen's idea: Have an NCCA Friday Afternoon Club (FAC) on developing self-image and self-worth. Carmen will send out an invitation through Carl.

Visibility for the NCCA - Susan

• We're looking for all contingencies to become more aware of the NCCA and coaching.
• If you're interested in coaching with AIMS or FRCC, send Susan Graham <sgloon@aol.com> a message saying what you do and the value it might have for them. Susan can help to set up the match and tune things for their needs.
• John Spencer would like to do the same thing for NoCoNet.
• Susan will set up a press release template which we can use to send out announcements, which will talk about who the NCCA is. It may be important to say "coaches from Loveland, Greeley, Fort Collins, ..." because that seemed to be a barrier for the newspapers.
• Brainstorm on how to increase visibility:
  • Put out a press release whenever we have something new, be consistent and persistent
  • Generate template for media
  • Coaching column in the Coloradoan (Lloyd/ it seems they don't want it anymore, it's too general, but they've changed managing editors)
  • NCBR or Bullhorn? Target 1 or 2 papers
  • What coaching topics would NCBR want in a column? Target the demographics!
  • eWomen Network - Lee Porter
  • Colorado Business Journal - Lloyd has contacts
  • Have to be more specific than just the word "coaching" - that puts the wrong image in the reader's mind
  • Come forward with specific ideas
  • Bixpo - the deadline is coming real soon (Lloyd/ I've found the benefit to not be worth the cost at this type of thing - strongly advertise the benefits of coaching)
  • Radio stations and papers list - if people have any contact information, please send to Susan <sgloon@aol.com>

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