Business Building Book Club
Enhance your business - do it by the book!
Meeting Details
We will have a 60-minute teleconference every other week. The first teleconference will be Friday, May 2 at 8:30am. Because we'll be introducing ourselves to each other on the first call, it may run a little longer.
Our teleconferences will generally follow this format:
- Greetings
- Discussion of the most recent chapter and its exercises.
- Closing
We're planning on sending out an email summary of the call immediately afterwards.
Since this is the first time we're trying out this concept, this is a proposal. We can reconsider the format after we've had some experience with it, to see how it can be improved.
Purpose of Our Group
The purpose of this group is to connect business women who will support each other's personal and professional growth. Each of us has a different set of goals and a different definition of success.
Benefits of a Book Club
- Exposure to and practice with new ideas. Below are some statistics from the ASTD (Am. Society of Training and Development) about being exposed to new ideas, and how to increase your effectiveness with those ideas.
| Increase in your effectiveness | When you… |
25% |
hear an idea |
40% |
adopt an idea |
60% |
write down the idea and commit to doing it |
70% |
schedule the idea |
90%
|
share that idea with an accountability partner |
- Brainstorming. You'll be able to access wisdom and experience from multiple people, who have a different way of doing business and thinking than you do.
- Accountability. If you desire, you can set a goal during the teleconference. Having accountability to the group will help you move forward.
- Support. Everyone in the group is committed to helping each other succeed. We're here each month to help you in whatever way you need. We'll celebrate your successes and learn from each other's failures. Belonging to a group also helps reduce a sense of isolation that can occur in a home-based business.
Guidelines
- Listen with respect.
- Share your experiences, positive and negative.
- Treat every call as confidential, at all times.
- Respect each other and treat each other with care
- Be willing to be held accountable, if you choose to do so with the group.
- Suspend your assumptions, both about yourself and about others and their opinions.
Commitment
- You should endeavor to participate in all teleconferences for the group. This is important for the group's success. It helps each of us to know that the other members are as fully committed to the group as we are.
- When you'll be away from the teleconference, please send an email in
advance to the group to let them know.