NCCA meeting 7 May 2008

Attending: Kristen, Carl, Mandy, Pam, Melissa, Bill, Sara, Rachel

Sara: 3rd year as a coach, background in Psychology. Just want to get involved with a coaching community.

Rachel: Background in financial planning, getting trained through ILCT and doing a little coaching.

Pam: career & life transition coach, helping people with career changes. Been involved with NCCA for about a year.

Carl: Trained asa coach in 2000, have done coaching formally/informally in a large local company.

Kristen: Professional coach for 2 years, background in nursing and teaching.

Mandy: Trained with ILCT in 2003-4, like being connected with NCCA as a community. Currently focusing more on communication skills training.

Melissa: Graduated from ILCT, now doing advanced skills toward certification. Do leadership training at Naropa.

Bill: Background in Psychobiology, retired. Had focus on sleep/dreams, "I teach people how to sleep." Joined wife in Best Year Yet program, which has extended beyond individual coaching to teams and corporations.

Vision

• Have been focusing on working together rather than competitively
• Also raising visibility to the community
• Had 11 people who worked together last year on Bixpo
  • There's some stuff on campus too that might be valuable – promoting health & wellness for staff and student body. Rachel's mother helped set that up.
  • Bixpo gave opportunity for us to connect a lot more about what we're each doing
• Questions?
  • What doing with outreach? Website, 4 community events per year (which has involved a number of ways of bringing people in) – multiple topics
  • What want to focus on this year? Ideas: connection with other groups (CofC, SHRM, etc.); laser coaching sessions; introduce each coach's business; newsletter
  • Experience with referral groups? Had good experience with BNI, generated publicity, good networking exercise - but that group were mostly entrepreneurs.
• Other opportunities
  • Value in getting connected up with doctors and nurses. Important to do that as a group, not as an individual coach.
  • Similar to a referral ring, useful for service-oriented professions.
• Have us connect, team-building, getting our collective energy going – that would help me go out and build further. I'm very excited to get awareness built around coaching.
• And feel connected with other coaches. Coach in front of each other. Get more real with each other.

Roles in NCCA leadership

• It's the beginning of the new year, time to identify new leadership roles
• Can help out on events, be a resource, but can't commit to an official role
• What about social activities, get coaches together, including families? Invite others who can experience what it's like to be with coaches. I'd be willing to help organize something like this, social events in general.
• Leadership roles don't have to be a commitment for the entire year
• The next NCCA planning meeting is Wednesday, May 28th.
• Social events can help draw NCCA members back in

Here Comes That Dreamer – Mike Stanley

• Captain with the Aurora Fire Department
• I'm a lifelong dreamer, I've had the opportunity to do many things
• My dream and goal for a long time has been to become a fire fighter
• "Here comes that dreamer!" – Genesis 37:19, referring to Joseph ("of many colors")
  • This actually refers to peoples' resentment of Joseph, wanting to kill him due to being a dreamer
• We do this because of jealousy.
• What makes coaches different is knowing the dream and PURSUING the dream.
• "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." – Thomas E Lawrence
• What are you dreaming about?
• Did I make a difference to someone today? That makes it all worthwhile.
• It takes a great deal of faith that you are indeed making a difference, you'll never get all the feedback you'd like.
• So how do you recharge your batteries? Supporting each other, having like-minded people around you.
• How do you keep on track, make it happen? Partner with someone. Partner with yourself. What's your evaluation period – daily, yearly?
• MLK actually said: "I have a dream today." That makes it a reality, today.
• Are you challenging yourself to get outside your comfort zone?
• Slaying the "juztahs" – as in "I'm just a …."
• "Whatever you are, be a good one." – Abraham Lincoln
• "Juztahs"
  • Stop saying it about yourself
  • Stop saying it about others
  • Stop others from saying it about themselves
  • Stop others from saying it about others