Facilitator Guide — Working With Me

Seth's copy. One box per slide: the message, what to do, what to watch. This page: savoy-exec-workshop2.pages.dev · The deck the room sees: savoy-exec-workshop1.pages.dev · Passcode for both: savoy2026.

Prep Before the meeting

Print 12 copies of the packet (Working-With-Me-Packet-2026-08.pdf, 20 pages) — one per seat. The pairs session on slide 18 does not work without it.
Pre-agree with Barrett the #1 priority for Amber, Brian, Jeff, and Lisa. You say them out loud on slide 12. One sentence each.
Deck open on the touchscreen, SOS open in another tab for slide 19's task.
Chase Tyler's survey — his vote can break the tie on slide 19.

1 Titlewalk-in

Message: this is a team exercise, not a Seth presentation.

On screen as people sit down. Don't present it. Start talking on slide 2.

2 Why we did this3 min

Message: familiarity is a business asset. We measured ours twice — pages and gut — and today we compare.

Say the July line again: trust is speed. This is a speed investment.
Land the last bullet: where survey and page disagree, the survey is the truth. It sets up every reveal.
Don't apologize for the exercise. Frame confident, move fast.

3 Who said it? quiz5 min

Message: we think we know each other. Let's test it.

How to run it Rows of three. Read one quote aloud → room shouts names → tap the card to reveal → next quote. Click advance to bring out the next row. Four rows: 3, 3, 3, 2.

25 seconds a card. The laughs here buy honesty later.
When Barrett's reveals ("I don't naturally like being told no"), say: "hold that thought — it comes back near the end."
Running long? Reveal the last row without guessing.

4 How we decide3 min

Message: half of us present as faster deciders than we are. Saying "reversible" up front lets everyone move fast safely.

Show the split, click the reveal, then ask Clay and Marc directly, kindly: "your gut said gather — which one is real?" First page-vs-gut moment of the day.
Point at the 8-of-10 stat: "remember this at the vote at the end."
Deliver the tagline looking up, not reading: the page is who we present, the survey is who we are.

5 What to walk in with2 min

Message: setup only. Show the "official" answer so the flip lands on the next slide.

Read the nine names on "bring me your answer." Say: "that's what we wrote. Here's what we answered privately." Advance immediately.
No discussion here. It all belongs on slide 6.

6 The mismatch3 min

Message: we demand polish we don't actually want, and we pay for it in speed. Deliver rougher, earlier.

Let the two stat lines sit in silence for five seconds.
Name the five doing both: Clay, Jeff, Jeremy, Lisa, Marc. "You're polishing for people who wanted the napkin."
Get an actual answer from the room: "half-formed by Wednesday beats perfect by Friday — yes or no?"
Caveat once: Seth, Bradley, Chris, Barrett still want finished. Know your door.

7 Underwater reveal4 min

Message: nobody in this room shows stress. Silence is our only status signal, and we've all agreed to ignore it.

Reveal "Nobody" first. Pause. Then the eleven names. Don't talk over the moment.
Connect to real work without naming anyone: "every item that goes dark for two weeks and comes back as an emergency — this is why."
Press the orange button to move on: "So what actually helps?"

8 What helps: space vs. come get me3 min

Message: two rescue styles in this room. Know which one your key partner needs, because the wrong rescue makes it worse.

Exercise — 60 seconds, run it exactly like this

"Everyone: say out loud the name of the person in this room you work with most." (Not who you sit near — who you exchange the most work with. Thirty seconds of noise is fine.)
"Now find their chip on screen. Left side or right side?"
"Raise your hand if they're on the OPPOSITE side from you." Count the hands aloud.
Land it: "Every hand up means your natural instinct for helping that person is wrong. Rescue them their way, not your way."

Before the exercise, own your own line: "I'm the one No on being open to the opposite. Working on it." Ten seconds, self-deprecating, move on.

9 Life preservers4 min

Message: you can't willpower past wiring. Three mechanical moves make load visible: water line, flare, rescue.

Teach the three moves in your own words. Water line = a color in the weekly update. Flare = one sentence before the deadline. Rescue = use the split we just saw (space people: cut scope, no meeting; come-get-me people: knock).
Land the norm: "a life preserver is never an insult here." Receipts: 9 of 10 of YOU said poke the quiet.
If someone says "another process?": it's one color and one sentence. Ten seconds a week.

10 Feedback + Culture Index3 min

Message: sparks and quiet are wiring, not attitude. Don't mistake pushback for a no, or silence for a yes.

The CI teach: high-Ingenuity people test ideas out loud (Tyler extreme; Seth, Barrett, Amber, Marc high). Traditional/low wiring verifies quietly (Brian, Bradley, Lisa, Jeff, Clay moderate).
Practical translation: when Tyler or Amber argues, hold your ground — it's processing. When Brian or Jeff goes quiet, don't assume agreement — circle back tomorrow.
Survey moves worth saying: Jeremy is actually Quiet, Lisa is actually Sparks. Update your model of both.
If asked about exact CI numbers: these are the graph reads; dot values can be pulled from the platform.

11 First, not fifth2 min

Message: complaints go to the owner first. Every domain. Make it a norm today.

Credit Chris and Lisa for answering honestly — reward the honesty publicly, that's the behavior you want.
The sting question: "if 8 of us go direct, why do fifth-hand complaints still exist?" Let it hang.

12 Priorities3 min

Message: four leaders can't name their #1. That's on the Co-CEOs, and we fix it in this room, right now.

The deliverable — do not skip: you and Barrett state Amber's, Brian's, Jeff's, and Lisa's #1 out loud. One sentence each. (Pre-agreed before the meeting — see Prep box.)
If you and Barrett disagree live, that IS the finding. Say so and resolve it there.

13 Recognition2 min

Message: silence after delivery reads as "it didn't matter." Three of us said it unprompted. Pick where recognition lives.

Keep it decision-shaped: Motivosity is dead — what replaces it? (SOS "Sparks" module is your seed if you want it.)
Cheap immediate win: recognition becomes a standing 2 minutes in this monthly meeting.

14 "It's Seth's company"2 min

Message: both Co-CEOs put their flaws in writing. That's standing permission to push back.

Read your quote yourself. Then Barrett's. Then: "is it true?"
THE RULE: one sentence each, and you say nothing back except "thank you." First rebuttal kills the exercise.
If the room goes quiet, name it gently: "the fact that this is hard to say out loud is the point."

15 Silence is not progress2 min

Message: from today, work that isn't visible in SOS is assumed stuck, not fine. Burden of proof flips.

Norm-setting slide. Say the rule of thumb twice.
Tie back: this is why the OKR nag and the pre-read exist — quiet people get seen without being interrupted.

16 "I hold on to too much"2 min

Message: 8 of 11 wrote the same weakness. The bench below this room is next year's constraint — delegating builds it.

Read two or three of the near-identical phrasings aloud. The word-for-word match is the punch.
Plant the seed: "think of one thing you're carrying that a direct report could own by October." No need to collect answers.

17 One word2 min

Message: fun beat with one real signal — Marc wrote "Siloed."

Enjoy Chris's Ricky Bobby. Then turn to Marc, genuinely curious, zero defensiveness: "you see something from your seat the rest of us don't. What is it?" (The slide doesn't say this — it's your move, so it lands as conversation, not script.)
Nobody argues with Marc's answer. He's reporting a view; collect it, thank him.

18 Pairs work session7 min

Message: convert insight into one concrete working change per pair, captured as an SOS task.

How to run it — the packet is the material

Hand out the printed packets if you haven't already (one per seat, all 11 pages inside).
Pairs are on screen: Marc+Amber, Chris+Barrett, Seth+Lisa, Jeff+Bradley, Jeremy+Tyler, Clay+Brian.
Step 1: each person opens the packet to their PARTNER's page, picks one line, reads it to them: "this is the one I'll act on."
Step 2: name one live priority the two of you share this month.
Step 3: agree who does what differently, starting when — specific enough to type into SOS.
Time-box out loud: "seven minutes. Step 3 gets written down."

You're with Lisa — model step 3 first so everyone hears what "specific" sounds like.
The packet is also the answer to "how does the original homework get presented": nobody reads their own page to the room; everyone leaves with all eleven in hand.
Anyone absent: fold their partner into the nearest pair as a trio.

19 The vote3 min

Message: adopt "reversible or permanent" today (it's free), then pick ONE structural habit and create the SOS task before anyone stands.

Vocabulary won the pre-vote AND costs nothing — adopt by acclamation, don't debate it.
Check-ins vs. Friday recap: two minutes of debate, Tyler breaks a tie if present, vote by hands.
Create the SOS task ON SCREEN, in the room, owner: you. If it isn't a task in SOS, it doesn't exist — including this.

20 Close1 min

Message: three behaviors leave the room — flare early, bring it half-formed to the owner first, build the bench. Then: ride for the brand.

Read the three bullets slowly. Say the last line from memory, not the screen.
Optional callback: "next month the pre-read will tell me who flared and who went quiet. Prove the survey right."