Welcome to the Leadership Climb:
A Self Coaching Journey to Leadership Maturity
February Leadership Maturity Theme:
Community Focus
Leaders with Community Focus share their time, energy and expertise to support their Internal Community (culture), build their personal and organization's External Community Awareness  and build External Integrity.
 
To explore more of our resources on Community Focus, click here.                                          

Week 2: Creating a Plan
There are a few things you can do to get the most benefit from your self-coaching.  We recommend recording your answers to assessment below in a designated "Leadership Climb Self Coaching" journal or notebook.   Your review and reflection on your answers now and in the future will be key to your continued growth.    

This week is about creating a plan to improve upon you and your organization's Community Focus.  It will be helpful to revisit your self coaching assessment that you did last week.  Again, you may choose one or more of the following characteristics to investigate over the next 4 weeks.

If you missed Week 1 - Assessment - click here to find the questions to catch up!
Internal Community (Culture)

Humans are social beings and an essential human need is a sense of belonging to and caring for something larger than themselves. We spend so much of our life at work, shouldn't our companies or organizations feel like a real community?   Does your corporate culture reflect your shared values? Are you putting in the effort that will inspire others to live into the shared values of your internal community?   

As you begin to build a plan of action for your personal commitment and contribution to building your organizations culture, we invite you to explore other thought leaders on different ways you can approach this:

"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly."

"Only then, as your company grows, can culture exert its powerful effect on people by steering them to act or to behave in a certain way when the path is otherwise unclear."
  Self Coaching - Creating a Plan:   

As you re-read your assessment from week one, we encourage you to begin a plan of action to become more focused on your internal community... 

1.  Identify one are of your corporate community that could use some improvement and that you have passion around.
2.  What is your vision for this change?  Are you enhancing an existing inititiative or community of practice?  Or would you be creating something new?
3.  Do you have enough information to create a plan of action?  What is missing?
4.  Who are the stakeholders that you'd need to engage to create change?
5.  Identify three immediate next steps that you will commit to executing this week.
External Community Awareness

Personally volunteering in your community gives you a broader range of opportunities to flex your leadership muscles and take that learning back to the office.

But even better is when companies join the forces of their employees in giving back - helping to engage employees and offer them a meaningful opportunity to bond, share their personal values, and act in unison toward a common goal.
  As you begin to create a plan to enhance both your company's and your own personal commitment and contribution to giving back to your community, we invite you to explore other thought leaders on why and how to do this: 

"A community-minded business will reap benefits from its charitable mindset, including positive PR, high employee morale and improved connections — all areas that can aid in long-term profits"

... “the new imperative for business leaders will be to embrace the idea that the viability of their businesses depends on solving the world’s most pressing societal issues.”
  Self Coaching - Creating a Plan:   

As you re-read your assessment from week one,  we encourage you to begin a plan of action to help you and your company to become more focused on your external community .... 
 
1. Take a look at your skills, experience and the causes you are most passionate about:  Are there organizations in your community that could benefit?  
2.  Is there a way to involve your company as a whole?  Who would be the best person to start this planning with?
3. Create a proposed plan of action:  Who is involved? What/Where will be done? When/How often?
4. Identify three immediate next steps that you will commit to executing this week.
MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model
Depending on whether you (or your team member) are at the executive, mid-manager level, supervisory, entry, new to organization or new to role level, there are core competencies that are necessary for successful progression on the Leadership Climb.

The leadership competencies as defined in our MSBCOACH Leadership Maturity Model create the backbone of our coaching, training and the we work we do everyday. 

Learn more here...

If you find that your commitment to develop your leadership maturity is high, but your proficiency or resources lower than you'd like, our coaches can help you more carefully assess and develop your skills.   Contact Us  or  find more information here. .  

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