An Industry Peer Group is made up of non-competing professionals in the same industry that meet on a regular basis to share and learn from each other. To prevent conflicts of interest and ensure a non-competitive environment, each group member must serve his or her industry in a different geographic area. Group members often travel to meet in a mutually agreeable location. Industry Peer Groups meet on average two to four times a year and customarily engage a professional facilitator to run their meetings. In addition the group runes meeting within a meeting and distance online and on call meeting with or without a facilitator from Amirror.

A qualified facilitator guides the group through a process of selecting topics to be presented. Each session is customized to the group's needs. The facilitator creates a meeting agenda and runs the meeting. In addition, the facilitator helps establish a group communication model whereby members have a safe place to learn. A principal benefit for group members is the opportunity to benchmark practices in their industry and learn from the mistakes and successes of their peers.

Network meeting structure
A 4 hour meeting should allow for the following outputs

1.  Getting to know each other
2. Understanding what is happening to the industry around the world
3. Find out key challenges and opportunities
4. Agree on possible actions and initiatives
5. Develop a follow up mechanism

(The time allowed for each segment or the merging of segments depends on how many people attend and how much time you have.)

We establish rules for participation and confidentiality up front. The group will decide at the end of the meeting what will be shared with other members not attending and in which means of communication. No sharing will be done with the name of the person revealed. All will agree on what and how will be shared and the approach will be to go along with the most strict perspective .all raise thumb to agree to these rules.

Sample process to achieve the above:

1. Each participants shares: name, Company, what they do and one snap shoot observation on the industry “I see orders of x grouping in y market “I see manufacture j doing f “I see a trend towards  ...” and so on. These are non filtered observation from the ground roots with no media distortion. (2 minutes per person) to be prepared before the meeting so people have a fast and deep sharing to offer. Have someone capture these observations for future sharing on the web after review with other network members that are not attending.
2. Depending on time available. Each member does an update about their business issues challenges, what keeps him/her awake at night and where do they see the light) max 2 minutes per person .
3. from the updates/insights in number 1. Map very fast where the key challenges/opportunities/ topics are and prioritize to the top 2-6 issues. (10 minutes if someone plays role of high integrator/moderator in parallel).
4. Develop small round table groups to do fast brainstorming on action to be taken around each priority issue. Have a moderator for each table to allow for equal participation and structured impute generation and documentation. Appoint time keeps per group and scribe on flip charts or computer. (1 hour for a group of around 8 people). People will be set to possible groups before hand to avoid possible conflict of interests but will be able to move around before start depending on relevance and interest.
5. Share, by moderator, with the large groups the outputs of the teams. (2 minutes per group) chose possible moderators before hand to experienced moderators with high capacity to drive a fast group process and high synthesis capability. Write issues on flip charts.
6. Agree on 4-6 action to be taken. (15 minutes) by fast peer polling on the charts.
7. Agree on a steering committee that will follow up on virtual round table groups for further discussion. (Try to have this done already before the meeting).

One word closing about how one feels about the meeting