The reps, out loud, so the practice runs without you having to remember it.
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Open a leadership-team session by lowering physiological load in the room, so the debate that follows is about ideas rather than defence.
Before you press play
Read this as the facilitator, or play it once at the top of the meeting. Phones down. Nobody speaks until the last line.
Headphones help. Nothing is recorded.
We will take two minutes before we start. Phones face down.
Hold 10 seconds
Everyone: one slow breath out, longer than the breath in.
Hold 14 seconds
Feel your feet on the floor. Feel the chair take your weight.
Hold 18 seconds
Bring the hardest item on today's agenda to mind. Notice where you feel it.
Hold 20 seconds
Ask yourself silently: what am I protecting in this conversation?
Hold 22 seconds
Ask silently: what would I say if it were safe to be wrong here?
Hold 22 seconds
One round out loud, one sentence each: what I am protecting today. Leader goes first.
Hold 8 seconds
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