Ideas From the Leadership Summit

Coaching for Success

• As a coach you ask the questions and the Coachee does the work

• What is coaching?– An ongoing discussion that clarifies a coach’s goal

and creates action steps toward reaching those goals

– A way of promoting self-reflection/ self discovery

Coaching 1. Coachee does most of the work 2. Focuses on asking questions – Keep questions short – Ask descriptive questions – Avoid “Why” questions – When you can give advice or opinions turn them into

questions … “Well, what do you think about …”3. Is action- oriented4. Is future- oriented5. Must support and challenge 6. Requires patience and listening skills7. A coach cannot coach everyone on everything

Coaching is Not!

• Counseling • Therapy• Teaching • Mentoring

Powerful Coaching Questions

• Getting Perspectives– What’s an entirely different way to see your

situation?– How would others describe your performance?– How would others describe your potential?– What one personal change would result in the

biggest benefit?

Powerful Coaching Questions

• Identifying Resources– What additional resources would be the most

helpful?– How might you use your greatest strengths

everyday?– What thoughts and habits no longer serve you

well?

Powerful Coaching Questions

• Initiating Change – What new skills will provide the biggest payoff?– What actions do you need to take but are

avoiding?– What will be different this time?– What do you need to do so you will have no

regrets?

Powerful Coaching Questions

• Commencing Action– Which difficult conversation needs to happen?– What is the most potent first step?– What short- term breakthroughs are necessary?

Powerful Coaching Questions

• Creating Accountability and Sustainabliity – What specific commitments have you made?– Do you trust yourself to follow through?– How will you maintain momentum?– What will you do when you encounter unexpected

obstacles?– How will you ensure the changes are enduring?

G• Goal– What is the issue on which you would like to

work?– In the long term, what is your goal related to this

issue ?– What is the time frame?

R• Reality – What is happening now?– What are the opportunities?– What are the risks or obstacles?

O• Options– What are different ways you could approach this

issue?– What else could you do?– What would you do if you had no

constraints(time, budget)?– Which of these appeals to you the most? Why?

W• Will do– Which option will you choose– When precisely will you start and finish each

action step?– How will you overcome your obstacles?

Get The People

Foundation

• Everything needs a strong foundation of leaders

• Executive Board – Highest level of CAC/ RFL volunteers

• Committee – Supports all the individual tasks of the event/ chapter

• Team Captains – Get teams together • Participants – Raise the money

Succession

• Mentoring is Key • Terms- we shouldn’t have one person do the

same job all 4 years … that way we can have fresh ideas coming in

• Roles and Responsibilities – Each person should know what their role is and what is expected of them

• Social Agreements – a must so that you know how often you must keep in contact or will be contacted

Committee Recruitment

• The Executive Board- should be pulled from the current committee and should go through an application process

• Committee Members – should be pulled from various campus affiliations and will also have to go through an application process to hold committee chair positions, and everyone should be put in something they want to do

• The committee should be a mini campus

Get Alumni

• Alumni Mailing/ Newsletters– Student Features– Highlight a Survivor/ Caregivers

• Mini Relay on Alumni Weekend • Elaborate Table and display• Specific fundraisers• Dinner/Gala event• School spirit based evens for Alums

Ghost/ Virtual Teams

• These are teams that are signed up and raise money but cannot actually make it to the event

• Family members and friends from your hometown can sign up

Faculty and Staff

• Can help with publicity • Will make it a community effort• Can have been/ are survivors and caregivers

or may have benefited from ACS• Classroom opportunities to announce relay• Can promote volunteer hours • Can give fundraising ideas

Recruiting Survivors and Caregivers

• Where?– Personal Contact– Posting Info at local hospitals– ACS Staff partner – Pharmacies … Posters with dates

Recruiting Survivors and Caregivers• Recognize/ Get them involved– Holiday cards– Thank you cards– Survivor dinner (Both semesters)– Invite them to CAC events– Judge Contests– Calls to check up– Coaches vs. Cancer

• Invite them to games– Survivor Tent– Gift – Virtual Survivor – can’t attend, but still gets recognized

Freshman Recruitment• Talk to the RAs• Freshman Hall Teams competition• MegaFair/Involvement• Freshman colloquium• Orientation• Flyers in dorms• High school/home recruitment• Freshmen courses/faculty• Email chains

Year Round Fundraising Ideas for Relay• Pub crawl• Dodge ball• Balls and wieners• Online• Luminaria• Paint the campus purple• Sports games/competitions• Challenge between schools, organizations, etc.• Human wishing well (OU)• Easter egg hunt• Pizza parties• Letter writing parties

Year Round Programs and Fundraisers for CAC

• T-shirt sale • Boob cookies• Purple pennies• Protect your balls dodgeball• Hope Lodge• Great American Smokeout• Survivor outreach• Cancer screening• Prevention programming• Flyers

Making Relay the “Thing To Do”

• Good entertainment• Advertisements• Team themes• Theme• Themed laps• Food• Kick-off• Purple campuses

• Sports• Organization• Greek• Spirit team• Peer pressure• Fun• Music• Class incentives

Get The Money

Fundraising Committee

• Why have one?– Group focused on fundraising – Reduces the workload of the President and Tri-

Chairs– “We’re not all about the money, but without the

money we do nothing”

Fundraising Committee

• Roles and Responsibilities– Develop Strategy• Determine event- wide fundraisers for teams and CAC

programs • Create short an long term goals• Reflect on last years fundraisers

– Promotion on Campus– Educate the Campus– Incentive Fundraising Efforts

Family Weekend

• Table at registrations (Capital)• Football game donations (MU)• Volleyball games (Capital)• Restaurants/hotels discounts and specials• Mini Relay/dinner for parents• Raffle

Welcome Back

• Fair• Bake sale• Parties• Bar/club• Advertising/school supplies• Table-ing• T-shirt sales

More Ideas (Awareness)• Twister on the greenspace during passing time• Birthday party with cupcakes• Finals week cookout• Video for professors to show before class• Offer cheap school supplies, like Relay pens• Mini Relay for Alumni weekend• Hotel/restaurant deals for family weekend• Raffle for family weekend• Relay announcements at basketball games• “Kids corner” crafts for family weekend

More Fundraising Ideas • • Easter Egg hunt for Ovarian

Cancer• Dodgeball tournament (“Protect

your balls”)• Human wishing well• Purple pennies (standing outside

of bars to collect money)• Memory boards (people decorate

boards, put them around the track)

• Selling puppy chow (at night?)• Fundraising card to get 10% off

for a year (BDubs)• Purple beer fundraiser

• Sell Dippin’ Dots (carts are available for fundraising)

• “Stop the Bop” (play MmBop on repeat until a certain amount is raised)

• Charge money to request a song• Mr. and Miss. Relay• Miss. Relay (guys dress up as

girls), challenges to collect the most money

• Date auction• Penny wars• $10,000 in 10 days• Purple party with a cover charge• Celebrity bartender?