🚀 Overcome Challenges & Drive Impact in Just 30 Minutes | BrainTrust Method
Stuck on a challenge? Need fresh insights fast? Our BrainTrust method helps leaders tap into peer perspectives, solve problems, and share lived experiences—all in under 30 minutes.
How BrainTrust Works:
Step 1: State your challenge using the POW formula (Problem, Opportunity, Why)
Step 2: Receive clarifying questions to explore the issue deeply
Step 3: Peers share lived experiences (not advice) to unlock new solutions
Step 4: Commit to action—turn insights into tangible next steps
Why use BrainTrusts?
🤝 Leverage diverse perspectives to gain breakthrough ideas
⏳ Save time—get real solutions in under 30 minutes
🎯 Achieve impact faster by applying insights immediately
🔍 Structured approach ensures clarity and productivity
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Key Insights
🤔 Diverse Perspectives: Engaging with peers from various backgrounds promotes innovative solutions and fresh insights, enhancing problem-solving effectiveness.
⏳ Time Efficiency: A focused session allows for rapid brainstorming and feedback, making it a valuable tool for busy professionals looking to maximize impact quickly.
📊 Structured Approach: Using the POW formula ensures that discussions remain focused and productive, allowing participants to articulate their challenges clearly.
🔄 Curiosity in Questioning: Clarifying questions foster a deeper understanding of the challenge, enabling peers to provide more relevant and tailored advice.
🌟 Experience Sharing: Sharing personal experiences creates a collaborative environment where participants learn from each other’s successes and failures without judgment.
🎯 Actionable Outcomes: The commitment to specific actions at the end of the session ensures that insights translate into tangible progress, driving projects forward.
🤝 Mutual Learning: All participants leave with valuable lessons that they can apply to their own challenges, creating a culture of continuous improvement and support.
TRANSCRIPT:
00:00:04 you want to achieve your impact you want to make a difference in the business and you're hitting some walls in pushing your impact project forward to see the dynamic impact in the business what if you could use your peers to help you get over that hump what if their diverse thought will add a new perspective and allow you to focus and drive your impact forward and what if you could do that in less than 30 minutes that's exactly what a brain trust will do for you brain trust a the focused brain trust
00:00:42 can be done in less than 30 minutes here's what you need yourself your impact you're trying to move forward and a select group of peers perhaps three to four peers would be ideal that will give you enough diverse thought more is better not too much more not over six four steps to this step number one is you will state your challenge you notice we use pow as a formula you'll state your problem your opportunity and summarizing why is this so important so everybody in your group will be focusing on helping solve your challenge
00:01:24 step one now on to step two ask clarifying questions those people you've invited into this brain trust will ask you clarifying questions they'll dig in they'll get curious feel free to use the questions listed here and or additional questions listed in grow coaching or other parts of your manual allow them to get curious and be open to answering concisely which will allow you to get through this questioning and get lots of interesting stuff out you've got five minutes for this step then you move on to step number three
00:02:01 which is really the magic in this formula sharing lived experiences your peers will then based on the questions they've just asked you in their understanding of the challenge share lived experience sharing lived experiences sounds like in my life i have done this on our teams when we're faced with a challenge we do this what they don't do is should on you because nobody wants to be on shoulds is inferring that someone should do something instead keep it to in my experience and you'll notice there's seven minutes here
00:02:41 because it can be done in seven minutes everybody you've brought into this brain trust will have a chance to share a lived experience and it's so important that those people in this experience are actively listening to the others lived experience because often a light bulb goes off which allows even more ads to that section then you move off into stage number four and in this step it's committing to action your peers will help you get down to specific actionable things that you'll do to move forward you notice
00:03:15 this is quite similar to the way forward in grow coaching the who what when where and how and how can they help and support you this experience is fantastic for you you'll get additional insight to help move your challenge over the hump and everyone participating will also learn and be able to take those learnings back to their business good luck