Resources For New Circles - ShowMe50™

Meeting Format
1. Q1-Meeting#1: Icebreaker meeting
  1. LeanIn has detailed guidelines on this – provide a link for this
  2. SURVEY: Get the pulse on the ground -Send a survey out asking members
    1. Name
    2. Contact
    3. Your top three personal/career goals
    4. Your top three goals for this circle
    5. 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
      1. Building New Skills
      2. Diversity & Inclusion
      3. Career development
      4. Workplace Issues
      5. Others: please list___________________
    6. Would you like to lead/volunteer for meetings?
    7. Know someone who is an expert in their field and adds tremendous value as a guest speaker? Provide their name, contact, and expertise
    8. Additional notes/comments

Evaluate the survey and decide on meeting frequency and content
1. Based on survey topic interest – curate the next 4 to 5 meetings
2. Identify moderators for each meeting – get early commitments

1. Meeting#2: Survey topic #1
2. Meeting#3: Survey topic #2
3. Meeting#4: Survey topic #3
4. Meeting#5: Survey topic #4
5. 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
1. While planning your meetings – account for holiday months and summer months.
2. Recommend annual mixer.
3. Mix it up:
  1. have external speaker
  2. Have volunteers take turns leading meetings and practicing leadership skills
  3. Panel Discussion Event
  4. Outdoor event
  5. Workshops