- Meeting Format
- Q1-Meeting#1: Icebreaker meeting
- LeanIn has detailed guidelines on this – provide a link for this
- SURVEY: Get the pulse on the ground -Send a survey out asking members
- Name
- Contact
- Your top three personal/career goals
- Your top three goals for this circle
- What (3) topics they want to focus on in the next quarter – <PROVIDE DROP DOWN LIST>. SM50 topics to choose from for the Q1 – in order of priority
- Building New Skills
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Career development
- Workplace Issues
- Others: please list___________________
- Would you like to lead/volunteer for meetings?
- Know someone who is an expert in their field and adds tremendous value as a guest speaker? Provide their name, contact, and expertise
- Additional notes/comments
- Q1-Meeting#1: Icebreaker meeting
- Evaluate the survey and decide on meeting frequency and content
- Based on survey topic interest – curate the next 4 to 5 meetings
- Identify moderators for each meeting – get early commitments
- Meeting#2: Survey topic #1
- Meeting#3: Survey topic #2
- Meeting#4: Survey topic #3
- Meeting#5: Survey topic #4
- Holiday month?
- Meeting#7: Summarize events? Mixer + Send another survey Out for the next 5 meeting leanin/SM50 Social
- Meeting#6: Survey topic #1
- Meeting#7: Survey topic #2
- Meeting#8: Survey topic #3
- Meeting#9: Survey topic #4
- Meeting#10: Survey topic #5
- Summer Month
- Some additional pointers
- While planning your meetings – account for holiday months and summer months.
- Recommend annual mixer.
- Mix it up:
- have external speaker
- Have volunteers take turns leading meetings and practicing leadership skills
- Panel Discussion Event
- Outdoor event
- Workshops