How Long Will Your Mastermind Group Survive?
People serious about having an effective mastermind group
, at least those who realize it for what it really is, see it as a tool for enhancing their capacity for making consistently better decisions for their life and their business. They see the group as the vehicle, not the individuals. If one person leaves there is a mechanism in place to replace them so that the group itself will last forever.
Whether you are going to be part of the group forever is another question altogether. Successful mastermind groups help the members stay connected to one another is ways that allow individuals to leave while the group remains vibrant and focused on the future.
One way to stay connected is by using a Yahoo group to do all the things that the rest of the members had been doing. It automates the important details allowing one member or another to move on and others to join so the group can continue without missing a beat.
Taking your mastermind group to the next level or in a different direction by periodically surveying your members to develop focused content, setting longer range individual and group goals, managing rotating membership, and addressing the professional facilitation option are more ways to insure continued vitality and enthusiasm.
As I am sure you know from experience, maintaining any group of people over the long-term poses challenges both internal and external. And we've seen that as long as people are engaged and see real benefit, they will stay involved.
One important element that keeps a mastermind group fresh and lively is the structure on the call, to keep it focused and on purpose. While each meeting will have important discussions around the results of actions already taken, based on the insights offered during previous meetings, a focus on the future will help to keep the group dynamically addressing what's around the next bend.
To do that you can use the capabilities of your Google group to periodically survey their members so the group as a whole can receive feedback on what's working, and what's not. We can never really know the experience of another person until they have a safe method to tell us. Having periodic feedback on the group meetings, allows for frustrations to be aired, best practices to be followed.
Once the mastermind group members of the group feel comfortable with the process of providing feedback they will offer ideas for future direction, future discussions, and even future subject matter experts for guest presentations. The ability to poll your members, part of the functionality of your Google group, provides the feedback mechanism necessary to easily and quickly assess the experiences of as well as prevent the unnecessary loss of your mastermind group members.
While we might think it won't happen to our group, the ultimate loss of members is a reality in most groups. Even when a group is doing everything right, there will be occasions when members drop out. Let's face it things change, people take new jobs with new responsibilities or they pack up their fishing pole and head for the hills.
Whatever can happen will happen. You want to be ready for it when it happens to your group. When a member leaves the group, the group has two options: to find a replacement, or to continue the group as it is. This can be a topic of discussion during the group business portion of the meeting. And when the time comes to make the decision you will know instinctively what the right decision is.
There may be someone that one of you knows who would be interested in joining. This, however, needs to be determined by the group collectively.
by: Wayne Messick
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