Good morning.

Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to day 6 of the workplace power leverage
session.
This is a 31 day career accelerator for value driven professionals. And the goal
is pretty simple.
I want to give you power leverage that you will help you win at work and in life,
pretty simple, straight as that.
And, over the past 5 days, we've basically been talking about 2 power leverage.
about 2 days ago, we started on the 2nd power leverage which is the power of your
relationship.
Today, we're gonna be putting a cap on that. We're gonna be putting everything
together.
Now one of the things which we've been able to establish is that, look, Mastamides
is one of the first relationships which support relationships that you need to have
in place for yourself Yesterday, we went through the importance of why you need to
have a personal mastermind.
We actually called it out, your personal wisdom board.
And so yesterday, by the end of yesterday, we've been able to establish the reason
why you need a personal, mass why you need a personal mastermind for you to run
things with run things for yourself.
And today, what we're going to do is pretty, pretty much simple.
Today, what we're going to do is we're going to, bring everything all together in
terms of how it is that you want to run your personal mastermind some of the
sprinkling, some of the activities that you need to have in place for you to be
able to do your master personal mastermind.
So there are a couple of things that you need to think about so yesterday, you've
been able to identify 5 to six people that you'd want to be in your personal wisdom
board.
So what do you need to establish today? pretty, pretty simple.
Number 1, you need to decide on the focus area that you want your personal wisdom
board to address What I mean by the focus areas that you wanted to address is that,
look, you're setting up a personal must you have you're setting up a personal
wisdom You need to define clearly what areas do you want to, impute from everybody
on?
Is it professional? Is it your personal life? Is it personal development?
because once you're able to define your focus areas, you're more or less able to
define how that group is able to work.
There are different focus areas. You can decide you want to focus on primarily,
professional development whereby what you guys are talking about is on your career,
how to more or less advance yourself you can decide you want to expand the scope to
include things like personal.
you can decide you want, for example, if the bond you're thinking of having a
bunch of people that are all married, you can search manage to include, your family
life.
Or if it's, I mean, like, the the the the world is basically your oyster.
You are the one who determines how you want your personal mass, a wisdom board to
run.
You're the one who determines the focus area that you want your personal wisdom
board to work with.
The next thing that you need to decide for yourself is you need to decide what is
going to be the frequency of the meeting.
my recommendation here is this try as much as possible not to make it too onerous,
especially if you are starting this for the first time.
my basic recommendation is that start with at least start with once a month.
if, both if all of you now start and you feel that, look, you need to increase the
rhythm.
You need to, make it more frequent Yeah. It's all okay.
You can decide you want to increase the rhythm.
 You can decide you want to make it a lot more frequent. But my recommendation is
this.
Don't go beyond once a month when you're about to start.
And one of that thing you need to have, you need to decide for yourself at the
beginning is that, look, you need to set aside.
You need to define what I call your renewal period.
One of the things that, would help overcome the, hesitation that people may have
to sign up to your personal wisdom board is thinking that your personal wisdom
board is to exist for a forever.
Literally is to be a board that exists more or less forever.
But if you can let them know that, okay, at the end of a fixed interval, you're
gonna get notice from me asking, do you want to be new?
Do you want us to continue with this personnel with the board?
Is this something that you like us to go on with?
my recommendation is you should do it at least 6 months.
And the reason why I said you should do it at least 6 months is that within the
first 1 or 2 within the 1st 2 months, basically, people are still trying to size
each other or people are still trying to, gain sort of their rhythm in terms of how
they want things to go.
so, it anything less than 6 months, you probably you probably would not have
started getting value.
So if you spend the 1st 2 months, people spend the 1st 2 months trying to, gauge
things, trying to assess things, trying to get the rhythm of how things are going
That means it's really just going to be the last 4 months that people are really,
really digging into what it is that you are doing.
And that's the reason why my recommendation is that, look, You should start with
at least a renewal period of 6 months. 6 months is not too much.
It'll be difficult commitment for most people they would see that, okay.
In another 6 months, I get I get the power to decide if I want to continue with
this group or I want I want to move on.
I want to move on outside of this group. So You also need to define it when you
are period.
The next thing which you need to decide is you need to decide what is going to be
your learning experience.
Now let me explain what I mean by what is going to be your learning experience.
the learning experience which you have within, the your personal wisdom board is a
combination of different things.
1, you can decide you want to do a book study.
For example, you can decide that, look, there's a book that, you've read that you
like everybody to come around and talk to Of course, you know, the diff the
challenge with that is that everybody has to get that book.
So that's the challenge with that.
Or you can decide you want to focus on simple focus videos that you're able to
find maybe online, which but that's actually a lot easier.
However, you actually decide how you send the link to the video.
Everybody gets to watch it and then everybody comes to discuss, share their own
perspective in terms of what it is that, they would want in terms of how they want
things to go to go.
I mean, in terms of their own learning experience from watching the video, so you
can have that sort of arrangements.
The other thing which you can also have is you can actually have what I call a
wisdom circle.
Now what I call the wisdom circle, it's no more than just giving the opportunity
for you to experience learnings from everybody.
what would happen here is this, you you can have a meeting session whereby
everybody gets the opportunity to bring in, whatever areas or challenges they feel
that they're having and they get to have wisdom from everybody else.
So for example, let's say, you haven't you you have you have a major decision you
need to make about a particular business, about the particular.
 I remember that it was one of my personal wisdom one of the personal wisdom boards
there in Pato.
There was a time in which one of us came and said, look, I'm getting a bit
confused.
I'm currently I'm having I have a job offer, which is sort of turning my head And
then I have, of course, my current job that I'm doing.
And, you know, people are able to give a bit of impudence in into it.
I mean, there was this time a good somebody came and was like, hey, guys, I'm
having a bit of challenge in the business.
I'm leading. we're having cash flow problems and things like that.
I'm thinking of doing a couple of things what do you think what do you guys think?
And from that meeting, differently, we're able to give him different ideas at the
time. Okay.
This is what I think you can do. This is what I think. That's what I call a
personal wisdom.
And what I would recommend is that don't make that thing an ad hoc thing.
Try as much as possible to structure itself.
For example, you can decide, guys, for the next meeting, it's gonna be a personal
wisdom board.
And what we're going to be doing sorry. We're going it's gonna be a wisdom circle.
And what we're going to be doing is if there's anything that you'd like to get
input from other members of the team from, please bring it to the team and let's
all hash it out and everybody would provide their inputs in terms of how thing how
we feel you can do ahead with it.
I mean, these are different learning experiences. You need to be aware of.
You don't have to use everything at the same time.
And one of the other things I recommend here is is you need to rotate, in terms of
how people lead the meeting.
So, the way what I mean the the way it works say is this.
let's even imagine that because you're the one who's starting the personal wisdom
board, you decide you want to run, do the administrative side of, sending reminders
to everybody.
Times of, okay, meeting is going to be on a particular date. What I always
recommend here is this.
In terms of leading the learning conversations, try as much as possible to rotate
it.
So for example, let's say you've done all the usual things. You brought everybody
in.
the next thing would be, somebody has to take the lead.
ahead of the meeting, you should you you guys should have assigned it.
And you're the only one of the things that does this look. It's pretty simple.
If you have a wisdom board of, six people within six months try and rotate it
around everybody during that period.
However, it is you decide to make your choice.
You can try and rotate it, but try as much as possible that you rotate it the
whole idea is that, look, you are giving everybody more buying into that personal
wisdom board.
they don't get they don't get the feeling that, yeah, the one who's doing the
charity, everything.
But the fact that everybody else can be involved in it.
Do one or 2 things out of it gives them a sense of engagement.
Bring them this gives them a sense of being part of the lead of this particular
group.
Now the last thing which I'm going to, give you a bit of direction on is in terms
of how you're going to structure your meeting.
My recommendation for you is your meetings should not be less than, 60 minutes and
should not be more than 90 minutes.
I repeat Your meeting should not be more than 60 minutes and should not be more
than 90 minutes.
 Now why did I say 60 minutes and, 90 what date speak between 60 90 minutes. 60
minutes is just the right time.
If you have a a personal wisdom board of six people, for people to actually have
good conversations.
60 minutes is just about good.
and anything beyond 90 minutes, actually, I I actually I actually try to tell
people if you are gonna push it above 60 minutes, don't go beyond, excuse me, don't
go beyond 75 minutes.
90 minutes is like, ugh, you know, really, really pushing it.
and the reason why is that, look, as much as possible, you want the com you want
people to feel a sense that, look, we want to keep our conversations tight we don't
just want to, just ramble, ramble, ramble, and just let things just flow in terms
of however it is, things are going.
So that's one of the reasons why it's very, very important that as much as
possible, you need to keep your meetings very tight.
Like I said, minimum of 60 minutes, no more than 90 minutes, if you can't do 60
minutes, as much as possible to keep it to 75 minutes.
now in terms of structure of how you want to have your meetings, I mean, my
recommendation here is this, number 1, when you come in together for the meeting,
try and get updates from everybody.
What I mean by updates is that, what's what's been happening in your in your life
since the past, the past the speech from now from the between now and the last
meeting that we had.
Now what that gives you is it gives you a sense of being able to, know where
people are in their journeys and how any other member of the group can actually
provide values, value to the other.
So for example, we've actually had in my personal wisdom board situations whereby
maybe somebody is giving an update.
And actually from the updates, people actually find areas whereby, I think I can
help you with this.
I can help you with this. just from people giving updates.
So that's one of the reasons why it's good maybe the first fifteen odd minutes or
thereof.
You actually have people give updates and things like that.
the next thing I would recommend here is that for the next 30 to 40 minutes,
that's actually when you focus on the learning experience you want for that
particular meeting.
as I said, it could be a case of, whether you want to do whatever it is, whether
it is, you want to waste on circle, whether it is that you guys are doing a book
study, Whether you're going through a particular audio or a particular video, you
can spend the next 30, 40 minutes.
And then the final thing would be talking about, probably if you decide you want
to have a layer of accountability in terms of holding people accountable to their
goals and targets you can decide that, look.
Okay. The last, minutes, last few minutes of the meeting, you want to put a share
on what are the goals you want them to hold the group would you want that they
would like to be held accountable to between now and the next meeting.
And with that meeting is done, So it all depends on you can't I mean, and you can
be you can't vary.
However, it is depending on the type of people that you want.
I mean, the type of people that you have in the meeting and the type of people
that you really, really want to, uh-uh, I'm sorry.
And the type of the way in which you really, really want to push people within the
meeting, one of a couple of other things that I would say.
These are more things along the lines of the week, which I like, to do things.
So for example, when I started my, wisdom board, there were a couple of things
that I shared with the team, and I'm I'm just gonna share.
So, for example, I actually created a file.
I created a work a document whereby for the first meeting, I shared what are the
sort of the expected benefits of this group to every other person to the people,
parts of parts of the group.
So I mean, number 1, mutual support, accountability, different perspectives, and
couragements, relationships and, of course, very important.
Confident confidentiality. members tell the truth about personal and business life
and feel safe that what is said in the group will stay in the group collaboration.
the fact that everybody is in different, industries and profession, basically, you
have an access to collaboration.
And that's actually happened in the personal wisdom board that I am part of.
the other thing which I also brought out was just a summary of the commitments.
You understand that I expect that everybody expected to bring to the group.
commitment to show up commitment to do the work, that's work on whatever agreed,
goals, or the materials that we share, contribute to discussions, commitment to
serve and confidentiality in all conversations.
based on everything that we've shared, you should be able to craft what I would
call your invitation message.
Why is your invitation message important?
Your invitation message is important because it communicates to people what they
should be expecting from their time with you.
Your communication message should highlight a couple of things. Number 1, it
should highlight what you are trying to do.
I want to set up a mastermind. Number 2, it should highlight the focus areas.
I want to set up a mastermind, put focus on, work, personal life, and family life.
the next thing you need to include the frequency.
I'm hoping that we'll be meeting maybe once or twice, within about whatever
whatever frequency once a month, whatever.
The next thing you should also talk about is your renewal period.
You should include that in the welcome message that you are sending to people and
give them the option to be able to opt out.
I'm I'm gonna show you let me show you a simple sample of, annotation message,
which someone used.
So let me go. Good. Yeah. So this is a sample invitation message that someone
used. He said, hey.
I'll after the I I wanted to ask you a question.
Are you open to being part of a mastermind group?
I want to start a mastermind with Christian men who are in professional lives.
The focus is going on spiritual, personal development, marital, parental, and work
life.
And I'm hoping we can meet once a month at a time. We will all agree.
At the time, we all agree.
We'll not we will not be more than 7 and not less than 4.
my initial thought is that we'll only sign up to a 6 month commitment to be part
of it.
At the end of 6 months, we decide if we want to redeem for another 6 months Let me
know if this is something you might be interested in pretty simple straightforward
invitation, but it tells everybody what it is they need to know.
And if this is something which they feel that they want to be part of, very, very
simple.
They'll tell you, yes. like I said, try as much as possible to keep your group no
more than 6.
That's my recommendation. No more than 6, don't less than 4.
and the reason why I said not less than 4 is that it just it's not that I'm going
with even numbers.
Not at all. It's just that it has a way of been able to create conversations.
3, if you have 3, the challenge you'd have with 3 is, everybody feels on the spot.
So for example, let's say you're 3, That means you and 2 other people.
That means when you are talking, or let's say you are leading, one person is
talking, the other person has to be thinking, well, I have to be thinking of I'm
the next person who has to talk or something.
 So which is the reason why I recommend not less than 4, and not more than 6.
not more than 6 because you want to be able to give everybody the opportunity of
talking.
You don't want every single meeting that y'all, guys are sorry. The time's about
we're about to finish.
I mean, sorry. Time is almost up. I'm sorry.
You can't see what it is that, you want to sit.
So this, some of the house cleaning exercises that I think you should do, as
you're about to start your personal wisdom board.
what I'm going to do now is I'm just gonna show you your assignment for today.
Very, very much important. This is the way in which we actually, drill down on
the, learning experiences that we're all having.
so number 1, you need to define the focus areas you want to the mind to focus on.
you need to define the frequency and how you want and how you'd want difficulty
and how you'd want to beat, whether it's Whatever it is.
Whatever it, you want to do WhatsApp video, or you want to do via Telegram or you
want to do Zoom, goggle meets.
You need to be clear and specific in time. You need to decide on all that.
Define the renewal period for the group.
define the structure of the learning experiences you want to create And once
you're done with that, you need to write out your invitation message to the people
you already selected the yesterday.
So, I'm just gonna do a quick backtrack to yesterday's, assignment. Yesterday's
assignment was pretty simple.
List out three reasons you think you need a personal mastermind, which is your
personal wisdom board write out 5 to 6 persons you would like to have on your
personal wisdom board.
Pretty simple. And that is your assignment for today. Thank you once again for
joining me.
it's been a wonderful experience today.
We put a cap of your relationship power and how you can go ahead to maximize it.
So tomorrow, we're gonna be we're gonna be hitting it off straight on power
straight on another power leverage, which is gonna be very important.
for you to win at work and in life. Thank you very much for joining me.
I look forward to having you again tomorrow. Wish you guys a wonderful great day
today.
Thank you very much.