VISION & FUTURE

A look back, and a path forward.

PRE-WORK 

Here is messaging to send to your participants prior to this meeting. Feel free to modify to fit your personality: 

Thank you all for your participation in last month’s MIBE Meeting. No pre-work is necessary, however I would like you to reflect on how much we have accomplished in the past year through this program. Think about how you have grown personally and the changes we have made as a company. Thank you all, I’m looking forward to another great meeting!

AGENDA

Intro from facilitator (2-5 min)

The Why: Use this opportunity to communicate with your team as one group. It’s powerful for them to hear the same message together and a great opportunity to recognize participants in front of their peers.

The How: Choose the things that are most relevant for your company to go over.

Suggestions:

• Welcome – Reinforce your mission/vision/values – Why do you exist as a company?

• Announcements

• Celebrations

Centering Exercise (5 min)

The Why: This exercise helps everyone to be present and focus their attention on the meeting. The quick-fire questions keep participants on their toes and force them to think about what they’re feeling right now.

The How: Go around the room and have everyone complete the sentence one at a time. As the facilitator, you should go first. You can reverse the order of who responds after each question if you want to mix it up. Remind participants that this is meant to be fairly quick and their first thought is often their best thought, so don’t overthink it and go with what pops into their head right away.

Examples:

• I’m really happy for _________

• I want you all to know that _________

• Something I would like to try is _________

• I’m grateful for _________

Video from MIBE® (10 min)

The Why: Anthony will provide an intro to the topic and give more information about the overall program. Each month, educational and inspirational information will be shared through this method. The video should make your job as the facilitator easier so you are not responsible for having to “teach” the lesson.

The How: Use the video below. It will be helpful for you to view it prior to the meeting. You will just need to be prepared to show it on a screen to your team. We recommend testing ahead of time to help avoid streaming/buffering/internet issues!

Discussion (45-60 min)

The Why: This is the opportunity for the group to share, collaborate and build trust. Ultimately the goal of these meetings is to move the people in your organization forward as leaders and improve your overall culture.

The How: As the facilitator it is very important that you seek participation from everyone at the meeting and that you create space for people to be open, honest and vulnerable. We will provide you with the content each month, it’s your job to facilitate the discussion around that content.

1) Review the ground rules for these meetings (1 min)

You don’t necessarily need to go over the post it notes, just review the rules and hang the poster in the room as a reminder to all participants. If there is something that needs to be added or modified, you can also do that at this time.

2) Reflection Exercise (10-15 min)

After viewing the video, give everyone some time to fill out the Reflection Exercise. There are five questions, and at the top of the worksheet we have a reminder of the 12 themes that were covered throughout the MIBE Monthly Program.

View & Download Reflection Exercise

3) Discussion (45-55 min)

Go through each question and have everyone share their answers. For the last two, we recommend capturing the answers on poster sheets on the wall. You may even want to have everyone come to a consensus on the last question, voting for the top 1-3 things to focus on as a company. For the question about the growth/accomplishments of other team members, this is an opportunity for your team to once again take some time to recognize one another and lift the spirits of your team! As the facilitator, we suggest preparing something to say about each person in the group and the growth/progress that you have seen them make.

Recap Video from MIBE® (2 min)

The Why: Anthony will close the meeting and summarize the content with an inspirational message. This is also our opportunity to share our post-meeting action items for participants.

The How: You will need to queue up the second video below. Again, it will be helpful for you to view it prior to the meeting and we recommend testing to help avoid streaming/buffering/internet issues!

*At the end of this meeting, we recommend that you leave a little bit of time for everyone to go around the room and share their top takeaway from the meeting and/or any highlights that stood out for them about their experience with MIBE Monthly program as a whole.

POST-WORK

Use this email copy below to invite your team members to complete the post-MIBE Monthly Meeting Culture Assessment. Please be sure to update the field in teal, which will be sent in a follow-up email. You know the drill, feel free to modify to fit your personality!

Team,

Thank you for your participation in the MIBE Monthly program! I hope you found this process beneficial and were able to find growth both personally and professionally.

To wrap up the 12-month program, we will be taking the MIBE Culture Assessment once more to measure the progress we have made as well as areas of opportunity.  Please take 10-15 minutes to fill out the survey by the end of the week.  It is anonymous and I ask that you be open and honest with your feedback so we can get the most out of it. Use this link to take the assessment: <<<insert link>>>

I look forward to sharing our results soon!