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Free Pack Mindset Worksheet

Every pack has a buffalo. What’s yours?

Your group has a challenge in front of it. Name Your Buffalo helps you get clear on that challenge, define what success looks like, and decide what each person will bring to the effort.

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For teams, families, businesses, and organizations.

The Buffalo

Name the challenge in front of you.

Think of your group as a pack of wolves facing a buffalo. The buffalo represents the challenge. It could be an elite opponent, a financial target, a difficult season, or a culture that needs to change. Taking it down requires the pack to work together.

  1. Name Your Buffalo

    Identify the shared challenge and describe what success would look like.

  2. Define Your Contribution

    Get specific about what the group needs and what each person can contribute.

  3. Commit and Follow Through

    Choose an action, set a deadline, and agree on when you’ll check in.

How to Use It

A conversation your group can act on.

Use the worksheet to guide a team meeting, family conversation, or discussion with your staff. Work through the shared questions together, then give each person time to define their own contribution.

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Inside the worksheet

  • 01A shared-challenge exercise.
  • 02Prompts to clarify success and group priorities.
  • 03Individual contribution and commitment sections.
  • 04An optional private reflection.
  • 05A follow-up check-in.

Private reflections stay private unless someone chooses to share.

The Pack Mindset

Built on the Pack Mindset.

The Pack Mindset is AIM’s approach to building an effective culture around a common goal. Name Your Buffalo introduces that work through a practical conversation about shared challenges and individual responsibility.

The buffalo may change. The standard of the pack doesn’t.