Joining BGEM
From the outside, most of the people who come to BGEM look like they have it all sorted. Many arrive without their concerns mapped out and without a plan. They know they want better thinking and a room they can trust. That is enough to start.
If this is all new to you
If you recognise yourself here, you are the kind of person BGEM was built for.
Hot seats. Preparation. Contributing to a room of people you have not met. For someone new to it, that can sound like a lot to take on before you have worked out what you need.
It is common to know you need help without being able to say exactly what for. It is common to look, from the outside, like everything is under control. You do not have to arrive with your concerns mapped out. Working out what is worth bringing to the room starts in your first conversation with Eugene, and you do it together.
The structure is there for the same reason. Nothing is improvised, nobody explains a complex problem cold, and nobody is left to work out the rules as they go.
Four steps, one person alongside you
Each step is a conversation or an invitation. None of them asks you to commit before you are ready.
The form takes about ten minutes. Name your city, the room you think fits and the size of the team you lead.
Not a sales call. You talk through your business, what you are looking for and which room fits. This is where you start to find out what is worth bringing.
Where it makes sense, you attend one session as a guest before you commit. You can contribute. You cannot take a hot seat, because that seat belongs to a member. Members are told 72 hours ahead, and your attendance is covered by a signed confidentiality commitment. You will know within thirty minutes whether this is your room.
You receive an offer, or a plain explanation of why not.
Your Strategic Compass
You develop it for your business, or for the team you lead, and Eugene guides you through building it. He uses his own model for helping leadership gain clarity, focus and accountability. It then guides your journey through BGEM as a living Compass that changes as you do, helping you stay focused and deliberate.
The worries people have
The question is what got in the way, not did you do it.
You are asked to prepare, not to perform. In a hot seat, you set out the decision you are facing in six short questions, and the room prepares its questions in advance.
You are not expected to have the answers. The room is there to ask good questions and open your thinking, not to judge the thinker.
Rounds go in order, and in a hot seat the questions go in order before the floor opens. Quieter, more considered voices get heard.
What a member says in the room never leaves it. Every member signs a confidentiality agreement, and the obligation continues after membership ends.
Accountability is not shame. At the next session the room asks what got in the way, and it asks to understand, not to judge.
Members may stand, move to the back of the room, or step out. Nobody needs permission, and nobody should wonder.
Between sessions
The room remembers what you said you would do.
Your facilitator keeps track of the commitments you make, so the next session can open by asking what happened rather than starting from scratch. You are not left to carry it alone.
Still weighing it up? Read the honest answers or start with a conversation.
The invitation
The right room changes the quality of the decisions you make. Tell us about your business, your city and the team you lead, and Eugene will be in touch to arrange a confidential conversation.
