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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NW Coaches Association Newsletter
September 2006
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In this Issue:
-- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
-- NWCA MEMBERSHIP CONNECTIONS - September 2006
-- NWCA PROGRAMS: MEETING SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
-- WEB PROFILE: A BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP
-- FOR MORE INFORMATION
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Dear friends,
This morning it was crisply cool, and although it will be a scorcher later on today, the weather reminds me that the season is about to change, and my term as president will soon draw to a close.
I have served this chapter since 2001, and have enjoyed the experience immensely. My life (and my business) has been enriched by getting to know dozens if not hundreds of coaches in the area, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve. As much as I have given to the chapter, I feel that I have received more in return.
The relationships, the visibility, and the experiences of participating on the NWCA leadership team have been invaluable to me, and I believe you, too, would find service to the chapter to be rewarding on many levels.
Several people have asked me over the past year what the NW Coaches Association has to offer them (you may remember that I've mentioned one or two of those conversations in this newsletter), and it has only recently occurred to me that there is a better question: What do you have to offer the NWCA?
In the words of my favorite literary heroine, Anne of Green Gables, "Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts."
For those of you who are considering serving on the leadership team in 2007, now is the time to start talking to the current team about their positions to see which would be a good fit for you.
What you bring to the chapter really does count, and your service is needed. Are you ready to step up and serve?
And by the way, if you haven't already visited our new Yahoo group for members, please do so today! You'll find lots of interesting information, including the ICF's Chapter Challenge, in which the chapter who sends the most members to the national conference wins a $500 prize! Details here: NWCA Yahoo Group.
Warmly,
Ronnie
Veronika Noize
NWCA 2006 President
360-882-1298
ronnie@veronikanoize.com
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NWCA MEMBERSHIP CONNECTIONS - September 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Digital Age to the Age of Connections
Working in the swirling rapids of the Digital Age, a coach is often struck with the cold absence of feeling and connection. September 2006 is the 50th anniversary of IBM's first RAM invention (random access memory) that replaced the rolls and rolls of computer tapes. Without reversing and fast forwarding the tape, now data was accessed randomly from a vast field of data simultaneously. What did this shift to the digital age mean for people and relationships? Well, for one thing, the computer gave more information without human connection, thus feeling and caring were somehow diminished. Spin the clock forward 50 years and some real abnormal behaviors emerge.
The coaching challenge: How can we make relations and communications stick when the transport vehicle of feeling and caring is now coldly absent? A speaking coach who might employ rah rah motivation, but finds the glow burns out more quickly, discovers the speaker's data is not communicated as swiftly or dramatically as the computer. Hence, one must shift more to inspiration. Inspiration always lasts longer than motivation. Why? Because the latter goes straight to the heart, it goes inside to feelings and caring. Don't tell me how much you know (computers, Google, etc.) until you show me how much you care.
As coaches, we probe and question for a client's pain. One obvious source of a client's pain just could be the computer atrophied social muscles that connect and compliment the full human being: caring and feeling. Stay tuned for our October Membership Connections article where we'll explore some coach tools for enhancing these vital connections.
Bob Renggli & Magy Nock
Membership Committee
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NWCA PROGRAMS: MEETING SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MEETING DETAILS
We have a great lineup for our September meeting and would love to see YOU on Tuesday, September 12th!
Please note that the September and October meetings will be held at the University Club.
Sincerely,
Programs Team:
Colleen Bourassa
Feroshia Knight
PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP DETAILS from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Power Points To Sell Your Coaching Services
Bob Renggli, Sales and Relationship coach with NWCA since December 2003, will bring some 35 years of sales experience and insight to add sizzle to the crucial selling aspect of your coaching career. With a Masters degree in Family Life, Bob now applies the tools of coaching to fuel new growth in relationship enrichment and new success in corporate sales development.
If you have deployed the latest marketing tools to your coaching enterprise and still are not "closing the sale" on more new clients, perhaps this pre-session is arriving just in time for you!
In his pre-session Bob will load more strategic arrows into your client recruiting quiver and sharpen the arrows you already employ.
1) When should marketing turn into selling?
2) What consciously competent "selling cycle" are you using?
3) What are the gaps in your selling cycle:
* KNOWLEDGE
* ATTITUDE
* SKILLS
* HABITS
4) How are you leveraging the Pain/Pleasure principle in your selling?
5) Why is the Fear/Confidence dialectic sparking new sales success?
6) ABC: "Always be closing". Close early, Close often by asking for the order and the first session start date, OR speaking engagement, etc.
"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
George Bernard Shaw
Don't agree with a potential client's objections, rather, repeat them, clarify them, get them in the open and challenge them - open a new path to growth for them and coax them through their next window of opportunity. Selling a client on the FIRST STEP of their coaching journey, may just be the biggest gift of their life: don't cheat them by agreeing with their pain or their fear! That's precisely where selling truly is transformed into a higher state: COACHING AT ITS FINEST HOUR!
NETWORKING from 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Get to know the other members, meet new people, and become known yourself!
MAIN MEETING from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Fishing in the Sub-Conscious:
The Direct Experience of Expressive Art with Dr Martie Geltz, M. Div.
What are the needs of the world today? What unredeemed knowing lies within, ready to rise up and meet them? How can you midwife the surfacing of these unique gifts, passion and knowing?
In these urgent times, an active access to our personal mystical wisdom and truth is a critical and potent source of transformation. Yet, this wisdom often lies dormant and unarticulated below the surface. How do we access it in a coaching milieu? Evoking and activating the deeply buried Wisdom of authentic imprint IS possible. And, midwifing that which may not yet be verbally formed can accelerate this rich process. Come explore interactive ways to create highly experiential and expressive venues from a coaching perspective.
Martie works with individuals, groups and corporations to awaken and activate grand passion, unique purpose and call to action in the world. Working locally & internationally, her special gift is in creating safe and organic experiences that enable people to actively remember, reveal & express their True nature, evoking it's emergence through wholistic, expressive and experiential inquiry, exploration & art.
Martie brings a seamless blending of Transpersonal Psychology, Organic CircleWork, Cross Cultural Rites & Ritual, Interfaith Spirituality and Mysticism to her work. A Certified Wilderness & Passage Guide, Holotropic Breathwork practitioner, she is also a licensed Intra-Faith Minister, and founder of Return to Center, where she is the co-creator of the Mystical Activist Certification Program in Portland, OR.
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WEB PROFILE: A BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Members: Remember, your web profile is a benefit of your NW Coaches membership. If you don't have a web profile, or you would like to edit your existing one, please contact me at: help@nwcoaches.org.
Warm regards,
Kristy Schnabel
Virtual Assistant to NWCA
help@nwcoaches.org.
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