Vision realignment

Minutes:
We had a great LPG vision re-alignment meeting last Friday. LPGers present were: Parul, Eldon, Rich, Ji-Yun, Tracy, Al, Sandra, Hung and Joe. We also welcomed Brian who works at Crenlo as a guest to LPG.

Al kicked off the meeting with this slide deck to give a reference of the 2008 LPG program conceived early in the year. Now that we have finished Phase 1 of the program, it's time to review if it needs to adjust to reflect what we have learned and to better meet members' needs.

Donna then facilitated a discussion on vision re-alignment, based on getting the team to think about and discuss the following three basic questions.
1. What could this group create together that would benefit all of you?
2. What have inspired you to come here?
3. What can we do to create this environment.

Sandra took the following notes:

Q1: What could this group create together that wold benefit all of you?

• Eldon: Networking with people who have similar goals
• Tracy: Learn from other people's experiences
• Ji-Yun: Ceate a learning space where we will be a group of non-judgmental people, we will be safe to show our failures, get support, share our experiences and experiment
• Al: Be able to expand this group to other groups
  

Q2: What have inspired you to come here?

• Help myself/inspire my leadership/management skills
• Working together to inspire ourselves
• Status check - are there any better ideas? what am i doing is right? Am I on the right track?
• Time to introspect
• Be among friends, no competition, no ego, judgment-free zone.
• Get away from work stress to be able to give and take and fee safe

Q3: What can we do to create this environment?

• Eldon: No IBM Competencies( they are more on how to be a good employee than a good leader)
• Let's work with a true goal - let's focus on how to be a better manager by learning how to organize yourself(that will naturally render more productivity)
• Time management
• How to communicate better with your peers. How to engage in a conversation (social skills)
• How o review the World around you. Build a shared vision
• How to understand other people's culture / Be more savvy in different communication styles based on different cultures
• EQ - Emotional Intelligence
• Take classes @ IBM and discuss them as a group
• Learn about stress management,Learn about Crisis management
• How to handle delicate situations such as being a manager who has to layoff people.
• Have the experts coming in to specific topics
• More real life examples and case studies to trigger discussions
• Logistics - every member to take turn to lead a topic, must be committed,
• On topics like stress management, try bring in "expert resources" such as video, or book, or articles
• Moderator role is important for meeting to ensure the meeting is interesting and get everyone engaged
• May be a list of moderator do's and don'ts
• How how feedback to the moderator to help them improve. Emphasize the positive, what they do well
• Group size - keep it to a cozy size to enhance discussions and further develop trust

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Action Plan

• For next meeting LPG Advisory members to map the ideas expressed and captured into a program
• Ask for members to sign up to contribute to the details of the program topics
• Meeting after next - kick off the program