If you have attended any of our chapter meetings since this spring you may know we have a special group of volunteer coaches working together in teams on various projects to help grow and sustain the coaching industry.

They identified four areas of focus designed to market and promote coaching in the Northwest that our chapter serves. The volunteers decide on the projects that are important and of interest to them in concert with the NWCA leadership team and actively pursue their own projects.

The four main areas are:
Development - informal training, group learning, mentor ship, etc.
Outreach - community service, coaching clinics etc.
Presence - building strategic relationships, corporate awareness etc.
Exposure - media relations etc.

Using the first letter of each group name they use the acronym DOPE to describe their activities, (get it?)

Regular updates are provided at the monthly meetings and there are a number of fantastic projects under way. If you would like to be involved please let us know.

I want to thank the coaches that are giving of their time to help promote the industry we all work in and love. At the risk of overlooking someone I want to recognize: Robyn Hall, Joe Lyons, Sue Melone, Bob Renggli, Feroshia Knight, Peter Ayers, Julie Moraga and Carol Hoeck. Good job folks!

In a future newsletter I will ask these groups to go into more detail about their specific projects.
Hope to see everyone at our July meeting.

Best regards,
Dave Wagers
NWCA 2007 President

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A resounding YES is the result of our recent email poll and brief group discussion June 12th, on the importance of individual intros at monthly meetings. Some key values that were articulated are as follows:

• Visual / Audio intro-connections spark urgency to meet fellow coaches
• Coaching specialty is very important, and also placed on name tags
• Emotional "bonding" of engaging a fellow coach can often be as meaningful a "take away" as the presentation itself.
• Reciprocal value - find someone and someone finds us via intros
• The intros often spark a reason to proactively go meet someone
• Intros help a coach "stand out" among 50+ other coaches
• Take a moment: Add YOUR "value propositions" to the list

After the meeting June 12th, two different coaches suggested that we experiment with having intros immediately following the 5:45 to 6:45 PM Pre- session, (just prior to the half hour network period) instead of inside the main meeting. What do you think?

Early Bird registration for the ICF Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA ends in August 2007. The ICF Conference is Oct 31-Nov 3, 2007. As your NWCA President in 2008, I will be attending this important global coach conference to soak up all the trends and tidbits of coaching wisdom and techniques I possibly can to help energize and lead us in the coming year. Many of you have gone to the world-wide ICF Conference in the past. Expand your coaching awareness and global connections while mutually enriching the profession of coaching via this ICF conference. Remember, it may be some years again before it is held so close to home on our very own West Coast.

Bob Renggli
Pres Elect 2008

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Take aways

1. Using a coaching call prep form for greatest value to your client
2. Opening every coaching call with clear intention.
3. Allowing greatest flow for call (including coaching demo for troubled spots in the call) for consistent results.
4. Closing call for most lasting impact.
5. Demo coaching and experiential exercise to experience (both as coach and client) this wonderful learning.

About Ann

Ann Strong, instigator and leader of ThrivingCoaches.com, brings to the table nine years of one-on-one coaching. Because she consistently creates sacred space within coaching, her clients work with her for an average of 18 months. She presents only tools which have positively changed her own life and work, often dramatically! Her background includes 25 years of teaching personal and professional development and 23 years of successful self-employment. For the past seven years, she has published an inspirational and practical weekly ezine, Sacred Space Notebook. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

MAIN PROGRAM (7:15 p.m.)

Guest Speaker: Marcia Bench
Topic: Retirement Coaching: the Biggest Coaching Opportunity in History
Description: If you have noticed the 75 million+ Baby Boomers approaching retirement age and wondered if you could coach them - you can! In this presentation, Marcia Bench, Founder/Director of Retirement Coach Institute, will share her proven secrets about how to get in on the biggest coaching opportunity ever. You will learn:

• What the "new retirement" is and what it means to you and your clients
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• How to coach retirees about life purpose, identity, health, and workHow to coach retirees about life purpose, identity, health, and work
• How many Boomers plan to work in retirement - and how to help them
• How to know if retirement coaching is right for you - and the two main ways to market yourself if it is
• And more!

About Marcia

Marcia Bench is a Master Certified Career Coach? with 21 years experience in the career development field. A frequent speaker, Marcia is the Founder and Director of Career Coach Institute, International Association of Career Coaches and Retirement Coach Institute. She has authored 18 books including Career Coaching: An Insider's Guide and Retire Your Way! Marcia is an Oregon native, and splits her time between Oregon and the Southwest. Her companies have trained nearly 1000 coaches since 2001 and continue to be the world's premier source for career and retirement coach training and certification.

Sincerely,
Programs Team:
Colleen Bourassa
Feroshia Knight

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Dress for Success
An orientation meeting for those interested in becoming involved with Dress for Success will be held in their office at:

1532 B NE 37th
Portland, OR 97232
(on 37th between Broadway and Sandy Blvd)
Monday, July 9, 2007
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

For more information about their program, please go to Dress For Success Oregon or contact Edie Duncan, Volunteer Coordinator at (503) 249-7300.

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