Start Your Mastermind Show

Every Mastermind worth being part of requires these seven things.

1. Time - If you’re not meeting consistently then the group won’t matter.

2. Access to your network - You’re going to refer your people to them and them to your network

3. Skills/Goods - If at all possible you should apply your skills to the group and/or offer your goods to them.

4. Focus - Spend time helping others with their situations

5. Travel - Mastermind groups should meet in person

6. Vulnerability - You’re going to have to be yourself with these people

7. Humility - Receive feedback on your ideas, mindset, words, actions.

Find the Hot Seat Process graphic at https://www.takepermission.com/sym-show-22/

One of the most popular ways to effectively share our wants and wisdom is through a hot seat.

* Structured feedback session

* Clarifies the true problem

* I want to know how to sell more of this product

* Real problem - I want to make more money

* Facilitates effective questioning and good listening

* Questions are things we don’t know, not advice we give

* Don’t explain your question, ask it.

* Questions create clarity

* Produces multiple perspectives and solutions

* More questions create more solutions

* You will get contradictory advice, and you should

* Forces clear decision making

* Decisions are progress

* Commit to three decisions you’ll make in the next 30 days

Many people are turned off by Masterminds because they don’t offer enough guarantees. They seem nebulous, loose, foo foo, touchy feely. But there are some guarantees you can offer when you invite people to join your mastermind. So, in one our last episodes we’ll discuss what you can and should guarantee your Mastermind group. Guarantees are important, and you can make some.

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

New life in a Mastermind is a great thing. New members bring new energy, new skills, and new perspectives. But there’s ONE thing that new Mastermind members must do if they’re going to help the Mastermind and be helped by the Mastermind. What is it? We’ll discuss it in that episode.

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

When you join a Mastermind you give other members permission to tell you the truth and you in turn have permission to tell them the truth that you see. Truth, it turns out, is the foundation and key to a great Mastermind, but how we handle that key will either cause the group to thrive or die.

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

There are seven top ways you can die in America. They are…. Well, there are seven top ways Masterminds die too, and I’ll explain what each one is and how you can avoid them.

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

After being part of a few networking groups in the past and then helping people start Mastermind groups over the years I’ve been asked if those in network marketing should be allowed to join Masterminds. Network marketing members are notorious for building relationships for the sole purpose of gaining trust and then enrolling that person in their business so is that a fair characterization and should they be banned from your Mastermind?

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

There’s a saying that all good things must come to an end. Is that true for Masterminds too? I’m going to discuss when you should leave your Mastermind and when you should end your Mastermind if you’re part of the leadership.

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

Having consistency of members is vital to a success of any Mastermind so it would make sense that all members should have to sign a contract right? So should you ask members for a contractual commitment? If so, how long should you ask for, and what should be the consequence if they leave earlier?

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com

It’s sad that this has to be discussed but there are fake Masterminds. What makes a fake Mastermind, fake? How can you guard against joining one, and make sure that you aren’t running one?

The Start Your Mastermind show is the best free resource you’ll ever experience to help you learn about the power of a true Mastermind. Masterminds can help you change your mindset, improve your personal relationships, and improve your business. This series of shows is built to help you learn the unique power of a Mastermind and how to avoid the most common mistakes made when joining, or starting and running a Mastermind. http://StartYourMastermind.com