Finally, we have acknowledged what to do Before the Summit, During the Summit and now some thoughts about what to do After the Summit. 

Debrief-Application of GLS Content

Top 10 Card… Throughout the Summit, we encourage attendees to make a list of their top 10 actionable ideas and we even provide a “Top 10” card and a short video on best practices to make sure they apply what they have learned. We challenge immediate debriefs with this language:

“We want to challenge you over the next 7 days to debrief your top 10 with your staff, coworkers or trusted friends. Let them help you process what implementing these ideas looks like. Share what speakers and ideas influenced you and if you came with your team, let them share what they took away. The potential for leadership conversations could have a significant impact on organizations all over our city.” 

Here is our low budget whiteboard video that we play each day near the beginning of the Summit…

Leadership Learning Communities

This idea of Leadership Learning Communities has taken on a variety of approaches, but the big idea is ongoing learning and growth as leaders that has been sparked through the GLS experience.

Here is how we say it:

“Over the next 60 days, we want to invite you to build your own Leadership Learning Community. Or in other words, take the actionable ideas from your GLS experience combined with ongoing content from the Global Leadership Network and use it to connect with other leaders who want to progress on their Leadership development journey. It might be as simple as a breakfast group reading a speaker’s book together or adding a GLSNext video lip to your staff meetings or it might be a group of Pastors, CEOs or other local leaders gathering regularly around leadership topics.” 

Our GLS friends in Omaha Nebraska at Omaha Leaders have regular learning gatherings of business, pastors and other community leaders. They even did some Master Mind groups with GLS content and provide coaching support for participants.

In Ft Wayne, they started a prayer gathering that now exceeds 200 leaders. They also provide some coaching with individuals and groups to help deepen the lessons learned from GLS.

In Boca Raton Florida, they have started something called BocaLead. It is a gathering every month for 1 hour that includes a great lunch and 30 minutes of leadership teaching and lots of networking. Business teams and groups from all over the community come and buy a table and it is now selling out with 450 leaders monthly. Here is a brief video on BocaLead…

What does Leadership Learning Community look like for you? Maybe it is just breakfast or lunch with 6 to 8 leaders working through a leadership book or maybe it is just adding a GLSNext video to your staff meeting, but keeping leadership learning active year-round is a win for all.  Learning communities create great bridges to the community in every sector.

City Serve-City Wide Events

What larger impact events can you connect to that mobilize the community into city movement priorities? It is always a win to support themes, days and activities to serve the city and inspire movement. One of the common activities is an annual City Serve. For some City Serve is a few hours. For others, it is a week of activities or a weekend. There is an organization that help you build city serve days called Love Our Cities. 

Here is an example of a video we show to promote a citywide City Serve Days to the GLS attendees:

There are lots of things that you can do as a community to inspire a larger City Movement, but the most important thing to do is to make sure the Global Leadership Summit is about adding value. Adding value to leaders, to organizations, and to the city.

Using the Global Leadership Summit as a strategic and catalytic component for a City Movement is about connecting dots. It is about connecting people and organizations and movement.