August 31, 2009

10 am CDT

Attendees:
Jim Keysor, Katy Branham, Seffanie Kolbus, Liz Stoppkotte, Derek Deroche, Todd
Hamilton, Kelsey Angle, Lisa Schmit, Jamie Bielinski, Jeff Colton and Jen Zeltwanger

Overview of questionnaire

• Webinar Groups
○ Servant Leadership: Kelsey, Jen, Jamie, Jim
○ Core Values: Beth, Kelly, Lisa, Stef
○ Power vs. Authority: Jeff B, Katy, Liz, Ashley
○ Mentoring: Jeff C, Todd, Derek
○ Groups will begin to meet and plan webinars on their own.

• Core Values
○ Discussion of replacing core values with a different topic
○ Survey suggested communication as a replacement
○ Majority voted to keep it and enough volunteers to cover it, so no
change

• Webinar Order
○ Majority wants to keep webinar in same order as discussed on previous
calls

• Secondary Groups
○ Marketing Group: Kelsey, Derek, Todd, Stef, Jim
○ Month of Service Group: Jeff B, Jen, Beth, Kelly, Lisa, Jamie, Liz
○ Use in either group as needed: Jeff C, Ashley, Katy

• Webinar Timeframe Established

○ Servant Leadership: Early November
○ Core Values: Late February or Early March
○ Power vs. Authority: Early June
○ Mentoring: August
○ Month of Service: September

Other Items

• DVDs
○ Revisited previous discussion of DVD production
○ Instead of distributing to offices, may post on wiki or blog instead
○ Possibility of 2 videos – Johnnie “clips” and end-of-year wrap up
○ Derek and Jen volunteered to help with video production
 • Motto
○ Group decided to pass item to the Marketing Group
○ ACTION: Marketing group will develop motto

• Logo
○ Ashley was not on the call, so will ask for update off-line

• Blog Update
○ Two facilitators now online with full access and editing to blog
○ ACTION: Jen will follow-up to try to increase participation
○ Jamie is having access problems with blog and Facebook group
○ ACTION: Jen will look into the problem

• New Project
○ Derek and Beth (and 2 others from LEAD 2008 class) talked with Scott
Mentzer at the High Plains Conference about a possible new project
○ Concern about past applicants quitting the application process
○ Scott suggested the start of a mentoring or advisory program to help
others with the application process (details still being worked out)
○ ACTION: Share any ideas about this project and how to accomplish this
task

Next Call
• Webinar groups will now begin to work together
• ACTION: Begin working in smaller webinar groups
• ACTION: Next large group conference call for progress report – early October
(Jen will handle logistics)