Glossary

We’ve got our own language at Ascendeur. A lot of the terms we use have to do with mountaineering because we believe that the entrepreneurial journey is a lot like climbing a mountain. There are peaks and valleys and it’s always easier to do it with other people.

Our Glossary of Terms

+ Afternoon Club

+ Community Coordinator

+ Community Director

+ Community Partner

+ Dine Arounds

+ The Entrepreneur Network (a.k.a. TEN)

+ Forum

n. A forum (or peer or mastermind group) creates an environment where individuals can find and give support, solve problems and achieve their goals among like-minded people who face similar challenges. Or as one of our members put it, “If you go to a gym and workout by yourself, you can get ok results. However, if you go to the gym and workout with a trainer or a class, you have a higher level of accountability and a feeling of camaraderie as you achieve a shared goal. You’ll find that you can push yourself above and beyond what you expected and you achieve transformative results. Forums are that trainer or class.”

+ Forum Launch

+ Forum Exchange

+ Forum Pact

+ Forum Pre-Launch

+ Forum Re-Launch

+ GFX (a.k.a. Guided Forum Experience)

+ Guide

+ Guided Forum

+ Launch Guide

n. Launch Guides are experts at starting new forums. They’ll provide operational instruction, train your group on forum best practices, identify the forum’s purpose, assist with the development of forum mission and vision statements, help build lists for exploration topics, and anything else your forum needs to get started on the path to success. They’ll participate in your forum’s meetings for the first few months until your group is comfortable moderating their own meetings.

+ Lead Guide

n. Lead Guides are experts at keeping maturing and experienced forums on track. Working regularly with the forum chair, Lead Guides will help develop a Monthly Action Plan (MAP), plan presentations and exercises to meet the group’s needs, and continue to liaise with chairs and members to make sure the forums MAPs are effective. Lead Guides do not participate in monthly meetings; rather, they connect ahead of meetings with your forum’s chair.