Schedule the executive roundtable

The series — Leadership team

1. Session 1 · Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM · FOUNDATION

   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.

   In the room

   • 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.

   System change to ship: A standing five-minute slot in one recurring meeting where risk, error and bad news are reported without consequence — owned by the leader, minuted, kept even in a good week.

   Closes on: Four consecutive weeks the slot was used, and one instance of a mistake surfaced early that would previously have surfaced late.

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2. Session 2 · Mon, Sep 14, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM · LEAD

   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.

   In the room

   • 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.

   System change to ship: Written decision rights for the contested area: who decides, who is consulted, who is informed — circulated, not implied.

   Closes on: One avoided topic closed with a dated decision, and a decision-rights line any member can quote back the same way.

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3. Session 3 · Mon, Sep 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM · SIMPLIFY

   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.

   In the room

   • 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.

   System change to ship: One published standard and one cadence for the work the team keeps re-litigating — what good looks like, and when it is reviewed, by someone other than the leader.

   Closes on: Three consecutive meetings closed with a stated decision, owner and date, and no decision reopened without new information.

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4. Session 4 · Mon, Oct 12, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM · ARC

   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™: Analyze, Refine, Commit.

   In the room

   • 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.

   System change to ship: The team's practice and its measure live on the existing renewal board with a review date inside a meeting that already exists — never a new meeting.

   Closes on: A before-and-after tier read, one collective measure on the scoreboard, and a dated review owned by name.

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