All-in-one Meeting Guide
Overview
The Centered Leadership model will help you lead with impact, resilience, and fulfillment at work and in your life. There are five parts to Centered Leadership: Meaning, Framing, Connecting, Engaging, and Energizing. Watch “Introduction to Centered Leadership”.
In Connecting, the focus of this meeting, we learn to build trust and form relationships that enable us to have greater impact. Feeling connected is the key to sustained fulfillment.
Meeting Goals
- Identify your relationship best practices and the mindsets that limit you
- Develop a strategy for cultivating and/or deepening a relationship that is important to you
- Increase trust in your Circle
Pre-Meeting Prep
- Watch the “Connecting” video individually or as a group
Meeting Agenda
100 min (based on 10-member group size)
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1
Check-In
20 min
Warm up, catch up, and get going
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2
Activity 1: Key Takeaways
5 min
Review the core concepts of the “Connecting” video
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3
Activity 2: Self-Assessment
10 min
Rate how regularly you practice the elements used to build trust: reliability, congruence, openness, and acceptance
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4
Activity 3: Strategies for Trust Building
55 min
Reflect on your strengths and areas for improvement and develop strategies for overcoming the mind-sets that hold you back
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5
Activity 4: Increasing Trust in Your Circle
25 min
Identify actions and mindshifts you can take to create more trust in your relationship with each member
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6
One Action
10 min
The little push you need to go for it
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7
Wrap-Up
10 min
What’s next and a few final words
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Joanna Barsh, director emeritus of McKinsey & Company and author of Centered Leadership and How Remarkable Women Lead.
