Bring the concepts
to life.
A book gets read once and put on a shelf. A room full of people working through it together is a different thing entirely. These are the formats for doing that, they are all free, and you do not need Chris there to run any of them.
Same material.
Five depths.
These are not different topics. They are the same ten concepts at different levels of commitment, so start with whatever your group will actually show up for and go deeper if it lands.
The Book Club Guide
One session per concept, built to be run by anyone in the group rather than by an expert. Each session opens with a few honest questions, goes deeper with one that asks more of the room, and closes with a challenge to carry into the week.
- Ten sessions, or five if you pair the chapters
- A final gathering to close it out
- One ground rule the whole thing runs on
- Works for a team, a family, or a group of friends
- Everyone needs a copy of the book
The Lunch and Learn
The smallest complete thing here. One hour, all ten concepts at roughly five minutes each, a run of show anyone can follow, and no preparation beyond printing a page. Built so a manager or an HR lead can run it on a Wednesday without asking anyone for budget.
- Full run of show, minute by minute
- The words to say and the question to ask for every concept
- A close that ends with everyone naming one action out loud
- Nobody needs to have read the book, including you
- Works for five people or fifty
The Workshop
One concept instead of ten, with the time to get somewhere on it. A real question on the board, seven minutes of silence, tables of four working it out, and then the room deciding together what it is going to change. Roughly seventy of the ninety minutes are the room talking rather than you.
- Block by block run of show with the exact questions
- Seven minutes of silent reflection built in
- A team decision, not only individual takeaways
- Everyone leaves with one commitment and a date, said out loud
- A sixty or seventy five minute version if that is all you have
The Boot Camp
All ten concepts condensed into a single day. Each one runs the same loop: a short teach, silent reflection, discussion at tables, and a decision. Ten loops fills a day, and the group leaves with a written plan rather than a set of notes.
- Full run of show, nine to four, with breaks
- What to land and what to ask for every concept
- A two half day version with a gap in between
- The plan build and commitment block that makes it stick
- Nobody needs to have read the book
The 10-Week Program
The deep version. One concept a week, read it then work it properly. This is where the material actually changes how a group operates, because there is a week of real life between every session for people to try something and report back.
- Every week: teach, reflect, discuss, go deeper, commit
- Teaching notes, reflection prompts, and discussion questions for all ten
- A weekly action people report back on out loud
- A closing eleventh session most groups skip and should not
- Built for teams, cohorts, and classes
You Do Not Have to Use All Ten
The concepts stand on their own. Pick the four that build what your people need most, or the six that fit your program year, and get a session order back with the worksheet behind every one.
You do not need
to be a facilitator.
Every guide is written so the person running it is a participant too. There is nothing to memorize and no expertise required. If you can read a page out loud and let a room think, you can run any of these.
Companies and Teams
Leadership groups, frontline teams, department offsites, onboarding cohorts, and employee development programs.
See the new leader page →Healthcare Organizations
Nursing units, HR and talent teams, physician leadership groups, and staff development weeks.
See the healthcare page →Sports Teams
Preseason, off-season, and the middle of a hard stretch. Concepts three, seven, and nine land hardest with athletes.
See the athletics page →Schools and Campuses
First-year seminars, athletics, student leadership, peer mentors, and staff professional development.
See the campus page →Churches and Groups
Small groups, men’s and women’s groups, young adults, and leadership teams.
Utilities and Electric Co-ops
Line crews, foremen, apprentice cohorts and statewide association conferences. Runs inside a safety meeting.
See the utilities page →Associations
Chapter meetings, member education, board retreats, and conference programming a volunteer can run without staff.
See the association page →Emerging Leader Programs
Chamber leadership classes, employer academies, young professional councils, and high potential cohorts.
See the emerging leader page →Families
Around a table. The book club guide works as well at home as it does in a conference room, sometimes better.
Just You and One Person
Every guide notes how to run it in a pair. It works alone, and it works better with someone.
Built for
your people.
The same four formats, written for the calendar and the constraints a specific industry actually has, including which concepts land hardest, how to run it across shifts or locations, and when not to run one at all.
Credit Unions
Branch teams, member service reps, emerging leader tracks, and annual or chapter meetings.
See the credit union page →Community Banks
Branch and operations teams, commercial lenders, management trainees, and officer retreats.
See the community bank page →Staffing and Recruiting
New recruiter classes, account management teams, branch managers, and annual kickoffs.
See the staffing page →Sales Teams
Kickoffs, pod and SDR meetings, ramp classes, and first-time manager cohorts.
See the sales page →Retail and Grocery
Store teams, shift lead and assistant manager pipelines, district days, and manager conferences.
See the retail page →Restaurants and Hospitality
Pre-shift sessions, shift lead and sous pipelines, manager conferences, and franchise conventions.
See the hospitality page →Manufacturing and Plants
All three shifts, lead and supervisor pipelines, safety days, and multi-plant leadership summits.
See the manufacturing page →Insurance Agencies
Producers and service teams together, new producer classes, perpetuation tracks, and conventions.
See the insurance page →Using This Material
All of it is free to download, free to print, and free to run with your people. Make copies, hand them out, put them on a screen. You do not need permission and there is no license to buy.
The one thing we ask is that you do not sell it or charge admission to sessions built on it. It is meant to be given away, and that only works if it stays free on the way through.
The highest level of success is helping others become more.
Or bring Chris
into the room.
Everything above works without him, and most groups should just run it. But if you want the keynote, the full day facilitated, or a program built around what your organization is actually trying to change, that is what he does.
When I’ve got something worth sending.
Just a story or an idea I picked up that I think will help you.
Sometimes that’s twice in a month. Sometimes it’s not for a while.