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”.
Meaning, the focus of this meeting, is the anchor. It concentrates on strengths and purpose—drivers of long-lasting fulfillment.
Meeting Goals
- Uncover your strengths
- Develop strategies for actively living into those strengths
Pre-Meeting Prep
- Watch the “Meaning” video individually or as a group
Meeting Agenda
120 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 “Meaning” video
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3
Activity 2: Personal Leadership Inventory
20 min
Identify the characteristics of a favorite leader to gain insight into your own strengths
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4
Activity 3: Strengths Awareness
30 min
Reflect on activities that energized you as a child, teenager, and adult to gain more insight into your strengths
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5
Activity 4: Future Possibilities
20 min
Visualize yourself in ten years energized and fulfilled— and the steps you took to get there
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6
One Action
15 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
Brought to you in partnership with ...
Joanna Barsh, director emeritus of McKinsey & Company and author of Centered Leadership and How Remarkable Women Lead.
