Month 8
CULTURE: RECOGNITION & PURPOSE
Appreciating the work we do and the meaning behind it.
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. During our next meeting we will be continuing our discussion on our culture and how we can be more intentional about how we create a great place to work. No pre-work is necessary, but please review your alignment worksheet from Month 4 and bring that with you to this months’ meeting, as we will building on that work this month. 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:
• Today I’m feeling _________
• I’m worried about _________
• I need help with _________
• I love it when _________
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!
Recognition Resources:
View & Download Jimmy Buck Program 101
View & Download Swag Resources
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 (2 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) Culture Update (5 min)
Take a few minutes to give an update on the culture initiatives that you have been working on. If you have established a culture club, have them give an overview of what they will be focusing on for the rest of the year and what help they may need from the rest of the team. Have them tie it back to some of the feedback they received from the forms that the team filled out last month.
3) Recognizing Each Other (10-15 min)
Before you dive into purpose, start off with this exercise to recognize all of the work that people on your team are currently doing. We don’t take enough time to acknowledge all that is being done within our companies and it’s important to carve out times for peer recognition. Go around the room and have each person recognize two other people on the team. They should highlight something positive they have seen someone else doing. It could be a specific task, a project they completed, how they have shown up at work, or something they have done to contribute to the success of others. As the facilitator, it may help for you to go first.
4) Why Does My Work Matter? (30-40 min)
Print a worksheet for each person in your meeting. They should also have brought their worksheet from Month 4. Have them fill in the top portion of the worksheet with the work they have previously done. Then, they should come up with their own purpose statement. Give everyone 5-10 minutes to do this. Go around the room and have each person share what they came up with, which should answer the question; “Why does my work matter?”
View & Download Recognition & Purpose Exercise
Recap Video from MIBE® (1 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!
