Coaching practices for Mastermind Group Goals
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep dragging the big-picture dreamers into the tedious finishing work and asking my finishers to brainstorm wild ideas, and everyone’s miserable and the handoffs are a mess
- On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone
- Every team here is busy chasing its own goals and the cross-cutting thing that actually matters keeps falling through the cracks
- My team and I keep ending up at cross purposes
- When someone I’m coaching brings me a topic, we just end up circling it and venting
Practices that may help
- Assign project phases to genius-matched people
Route early ideation to Wonder/Invention geniuses and execution phases to Tenacity geniuses.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Run a structured team morphological session
The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical - Set one organization-wide priority per quarter
Identify the single most important thing the company must accomplish this quarter, and make it everyone’s top priority.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - One-minute goals: write them short enough to re-read in a minute
A goal that cannot be stated on a single page is too vague to be evaluated or acted on.
The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work - Clarify the Goal with precision
Establish exactly what the person wants to achieve — not the presenting topic, but the specific, owned outcome.
The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical - Build a Massive Action Plan (MAP)
Brainstorm every possible action that could move you toward the result, then ruthlessly prune to the ones that actually will.
Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical - Map your team’s genius coverage
Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Make stretch goals specific, not just big
A stretch goal must be specific and measurable to trigger the mechanisms that make it work.
Stretch Goals: When Ambitious Targets Help and When They Backfire - Set goals that build on your signature strengths
Design goals that let your top strengths be the primary vehicle rather than your weak spots.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Brainwrite instead of group brainstorm
Have people generate ideas silently and individually first, then pool and build.
Divergent Thinking: Generating Many Ideas
Related concerns
- Team Idea Generation
Have people generate ideas silently and individually first, then pool and build.
Brainwrite instead of group brainstorm
- Atomic Habits With My Team
James Clear’s system says behavior change is a system problem, not a willpower problem: make a desired habit obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying — and do the reverse for bad ones. The most load-bearing ideas (implementation intentions, friction reduction, identity-based change) are well supported in the research literature.
- Collective Results Team
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
Align around collective results, not individual status
- Communication Goal Setting
Establish exactly what the person wants to achieve — not the presenting topic, but the specific, owned outcome.
Clarify the Goal with precision
- Connecting To Manager Goals
Know what your manager is measured on and being pressured about — your work lands differently when it connects to that.
Map your manager’s top three priorities
- Gain Oriented Goals
Stack outcome goals (direction), performance goals (benchmarks), and process goals (moment-to-moment focus) in a single structure.
Build a three-level goal hierarchy
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