Executive roundtable — Mental Fitness

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Schedule the executive roundtable

Four phases, four dated sessions, each one closing on evidence rather than on the session feeling good.

The roundtable is worked in meetings the team already holds. Set the first date and the cadence; the series carries the phase, the practice, the system change and the evidence. Nothing here is stored or sent — the calendar file is built in your browser.

Cadence

The series — Leadership team

• Open one standing meeting with a two-minute settling track, phones down, before the hardest item.
• One round, one sentence each: what I am protecting in this conversation. The leader answers first and answers honestly.
• Each member names their DISC style and the one thing about their style that is hardest for the others to work with — style as a way into vulnerability, never as an excuse.
• Name the one topic the team has been avoiding, and schedule it as a working item with a stated decision date.
• Before each debate, one person argues the strongest version of the view they disagree with.
• Rule for the session: argue the idea, name the interest, no history. The facilitator stops history, not heat.
• Last ten minutes of every meeting: one person states the decision as they will repeat it. Anyone who would say it differently says so then.
• Every decision leaves with an owner, a date and who is informed by Friday.
• Peer-to-peer accountability, once: each member asks one colleague for one behaviour they want continued and one they want stopped.
• Re-take the team read and compare movement tier by tier. Never average the tiers.
• Review the scoreboard against what the team actually did, not what it intended.
• Name one collective result the whole team is accountable for, with one shared measure.

Awareness is never the intervention. Each session closes only when the system change has shipped and the evidence exists — then ARC™ (Assess · Refine · Commit) raises the standard rather than repeating the session.

Phase 01 — Make it safe to be wrong in the room

Vulnerability-based trust is the base tier and the one thing a team cannot fake. The work is not a trust exercise; it is the leader going first, repeatedly, with real exposure.

Phase 02 — Have the argument in the room

Artificial harmony is the expensive kind. The team practises unfiltered debate on the issue while keeping the relationship intact — which is only possible once tier one holds.

Phase 03 — Leave with one version of the decision

Ambiguity is where commitment and accountability both fail. The team practises stating the decision out loud, in the room, in the words each member will repeat to their own team.

Phase 04 — Hold each other to the result

The apex tier: collective results ahead of individual status and functional turf. This phase converts eight weeks of behaviour into something the operating cadence keeps doing — ARC™: Assess, Refine, Commit.