Getting the most from your Peer Group Experience
- Be clear about your ideal outcomes from membership in the forum. Reach out to others to achieve your ideal outcomes.
- Show up early (15min) to mingle and build relationships before the meeting starts.
- Sit beside new people every time.
- Complete your update sheet in advance of the meeting and really think about a key issue/challenge that you would like help with and would benefit others.
- Practice active listening during the meetings. Focus on body language, words and points of view.
- Contribute more to the meetings than you’ll ever get out of the meetings.
- Have coffee or lunch with every single person in the forum over the next 6 months. Learn everything you can about every single person in the group. Do everything you can to help others be successful.
- Follow up to help other people and to get help between meetings.
- Share knowledge with the entire group before, during and after meetings.
- Challenge people during the meetings to take action and play a bigger game.
- Practice success behaviours: fun; decisiveness; results orientation; strategic thinking; taking a stand on issues; assertiveness; passion; managing emotions; confidence building
- Park your ego: looking good; right/wrong; defensiveness; blame game; control freak; judgement
- Practice giving people feedback to help them learn and grow.
- Show courage. Bring tough issues to the meetings. Create trust and candour for the group.
- Stay behind after meetings for 15min and mingle with other members.