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Leaders Guide

Builder #5: Fear is My Friend (Meeting Agenda)

This meeting agenda is organized into 3 parts. As the facilitator, you can choose to use 1, 2 or all 3 parts of this agenda based on the time you want to allocate and what you want to accomplish with the group.

  • Golden Nuggets (builds team cohesion)
  • Topical Conversations (reinforces specific concepts)
  • Application (drives changes in behavior)

Part 1 - Golden Nuggets

What were your golden nuggets from our last conversation? (Go around the room, each person picks the next to share.) What were your golden nuggets from listening to Builder #5? They could be concepts or takeaways, relevant stories or experiences — from your life or someone else’s. (As people share golden nuggets) Do any examples or experiences of that come to mind?

Part 2 - Topical Conversations

One of the topics discussed was _______. What were your thoughts about this? What examples of this principle in action come to mind?

Topics:
Law of Reciprocity:
  • Joe talked about the principle that the only way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Where have you seen this to be true?
  • Scott - "My wife’s an anchor" story
  • Avoiding people who put us down
Everyone has a Fear:
  • Fear is a natural reaction to the unknown. What is a time where you felt fear and moved through it anyway?
  • It’s okay to be afraid, everyone has fear.
Definition of a Comfort Zone:
  • The imaginary line in our minds eye between what we believe we’re capable of, and what we’ve yet to come to believe we’re capable of. What is an example of this from your own life?
  • With unlimited potential, we know that there’s nothing we’re not capable of eventually; enables us to move through the fear
Our Perception of Fear:
  • We can either view fear as a bad thing, or view fear as a sign that we’re about to grow. Which helps us more?
  • Bruce Springsteen story - when he felt the butterflies, he knew he was ready to perform (it’s how we interpret the emotion of fear)
  • Jordan afraid of roller skating story - butterflies in the stomach
  • “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” - Helen Keller

Part 3 - Application

  • How do the concepts discussed in this builder apply to what we do as a team?
  • How do the concepts discussed in this builder apply to your individual roles?