Hey, Evolve!
Q1 is Leadership Plan Quarter. Are you ready? Almost all of the consulting we do is around helping partners build and execute a strategy. The key to that is leadership skills and team development.
Let me ask you a straight up question. Do you have a leadership plan – a real leadership plan that you plan on executing – for your individual leaders and as a team? How much development are you planning for the most important people in your organization. If there are trust issues do you plan on addressing it? If there are skill or management gaps how do you plan on addressing them? What is your plan?
I almost guarantee you if you don’t get the issues identified and down on paper you’ll be sitting in the same place one year from now. Press into the hard questions at your meeting in Q1. Does your leadership plan address your leadership growth this year? Does it address what you expect out of your leadership team this year? If not – work on it and then work the plan. Your company will grow proportionately with the capacity of leadership you have on your team.
GiANT Worldwide
We’re leading you to water – and this year we’re taking that one step further on Community Day. We’ve partnered with a company called GiANT Worldwide (check them out at www.Giant.tv) to help equip you to grow the leadership in your company.
We’re inviting you, andanyone else on your team that will benefit, to attend training sessions on Community Day. We're also encouraging you to sign-up (it's free!) and access the GiANT platform that has a framework and tools that guiding self and team leadership skill development. I’m beginning to work through their platform and I can personally tell you with confidence, it's good. There's an assessment you do first that nails the type of “voice” you have. Turns out I am a Creative – “Champion of future ideas, innovation, and organizational integrity.” It was very insightful to read about some traits I have that I didn’t necessarily realize were true. It gave me insights into the things I value. It pointed out things that are challenging to me (repetitive routines and relational disharmony) and predicted how I would behave under moderate and extreme stress. Then it builds a journey I can follow to grow my leadership capacity. That’s just the beginning of their toolset and it's availablefree to all Evolve members this year.
On Community day we’re going to be led through some of this great content by trained geo-specific GiANT facilitators. Q1, Q2 and Q3 will all feature different aspects of this leadership framework and practical application guidance for you and your team to use. Get it on your calendar for you and your leadership team to attend Community Day this year.
Monthly Newsletter
We have a newsletter going out this week that is short and to the point on topics that are relevant. Part of our effort this year to streamline our communication with you. Look for that newsletter once a month with the most important things you need to know about what’s happening with Evolve.
C-Level Interview
I’ll leave you with another C-Level conversation we’ve recorded recently. This one features Pete Sorensen talking with Garrison Strickland from Nerdio the challenges of a flexible workforce and how they’ve guided partners to make the transition to be successful with changing boundaries and workplace expectations.
North America let’s have a great q1 and EMEA and APAC keep working on those leadership plans to share when your turn comes up in a few weeks.
Thanks for being a part of Evolve – stay healthy and lead strong!
-Brad