Launch Your Own Lifeline Group and Reap the Rewards

Posted on July 24th, 2009 by admin

Hi, Ryan here, with some more interview footage from the tour.

Charley Timmins and Steve Bauer created their own Lifeline Group - or something like one, since they a) created it before WGYB came out and b) used a facilitator.  As a refresher, a Lifeline Group is a concept Keith introduces in WGYB. It's a group of peers who meet regularly to help each other succeed at goals through generosity, vulnerability, candor, and accountability.

Charles and Steve began their with the intention of bettering themselves professionally, personally and spiritually.  They have been meeting now for about one year.

Charley makes sure we know it’s no small feat to create one of these groups.  “It’s hard work,” he says.  But it’s also one of the most valuable and rewarding experiences he’s ever had in his professional career.  Charley also urges the use of a facilitator.  Keith doesn’t think a facilitator is required for peer groups - ultimately the idea is to depend on each other, and that everyone in the group is equally a facilitator - but he certainly recognizes the value one can offer.  Having everyone read WGYB is another way to help launch the group!

Some tips from Charley:

1.    A lifeline group is hard work – You need to constantly challenge each other to dig deeper and uncover your true passions, motivations and goals
2.    Meet 2 times per month, 4 hours each time.  We usually meet at a group member’s house.
3.    Form your group with about 6 people
4.    Use a facilitator to learn what questions to ask each other in order to “dive deep”
5.    Choose a facilitator wisely – find a small business strategy consultant and test them out in a preliminary meeting to see if they know what questions to ask in order to get to the root of your organization’s vision and goals.  If so, you have a good candidate for a Lifeline Group facilitator.

These are great tips from the field – thanks Charley.  If you want Keith’s official methodology and guide on how form your own Lifeline Group, complete with minute-by-minute walkthroughs of your first few meetings, download the companion guide to Who’s Got Your Back here!

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