In this talk, the speaker argues that member experiences are significantly improved when personal updates are deliberately woven into group interactions. She recommends regularly asking members to share personal updates—monthly, during deep‑dives, goal‑setting, year‑end reviews, and introductions—covering topics such as what brings them joy, biggest regrets, proud moments, personal challenges, fears, and areas needing improvement. The speaker frames this as work‑life integration rather than balance, emphasizing that understanding members’ personal contexts enables more insightful business decisions and stronger support. She outlines practical venues for gathering these updates, including coaching sessions, quarterly achievement sessions (QASs), informal coffee chats, and social gatherings, positioning personal sharing as a necessary component of effective group dynamics.
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it just makes for truly an all-encompassing experience. The member experience is, is heightened when you add the personal component into it. So you can specifically ask for personal updates. That's another way. It's like, you know what, this month in giving updates, give a personal update, or every month, personal update on how things are going. And particularly you can ask in regards to when they do deep dives, on the business and making sure that you have a section personally about what their goals are, what is important to them personally. Um, when they set goals for the year, include personal in addition to business. And so therefore, when they give an update at the end of the year, how did it go, they're talking about personal and business. And that works really, really well because the bottom line is there is no work-life balance. It's work-life integration. Right. And having that integration and having the ability to talk about that and having particularly new members when they do their introductions, having them talk a little bit about their personal, like what brings them joy, what's their biggest regret personally, most proud of personally, even ask what's the biggest personal challenge or what's one thing that the group needs to know about them that personally will help in them understanding how they run the business? What's their biggest fear regarding their life? What's one thing personally needs to be improved on so it doesn't impact the business? You get the idea. Those are all good things that you need to know about your members as well, whether you get that in your coaching sessions, if you're doing those in between, Or if you're doing in what we call quarterly achievement sessions, QASs, or if you don't do any of that and you just do a pure meeting, then it's how you touch base with them in between, or the coffee or the social that you have, etc. So personal incorporating into your meetings is okay. It's somewhat of a necessity because when people understand Somebody's background personally, it helps them give better insights for the best business decisions and support. That is the whole essence of my being in a group.
