I am getting excited about 2021! Not only what I think we can do with our Evolve team in terms of operational maturity and delivering value, but I’m excited about breaking out of the 2020 dynamic. The way I’ve worded it with our team is 2020 ended up driving us and we’re going to drive 2021. Like the awesome, but underrated, song by Rush called "Driven" says – it’s my turn to drive! It's an anthem for those of us who are tired of being taken where we don’t necessarily want to go - an anthem to regain strategic control.
Q1 is Leadership Quarter
Let me cut to the chase. A company will grow as big and mature as it’s leadership capacity will allow. Grow your leadership and grow your company. Grow your leadership team’s capacity and really watch your company grow. Create a leadership culture and the sky is the limit. With that in mind we’re looking to address one of the things we’ve identified and know we need to address. How do we get the ideas and concept you discover with your peers and effectively drive them through your organization? The short answer is leadership, but that’s hardly a help in actually getting it done.
We’ve partnered with GiANT Worldwide this year to provide you, and anyone on your team, the tools and framework for effective leadership. We’re investing much of Community Day in 2021 to this great material being used by companies like Google. We’re adopting it as our leadership training framework at ConnectWise for our Lead program and we’re bringing it exclusively to our Evolve members this year.
My hope is that this “primes the pump” for you to set aside the Wednesday of your peer group meeting and invite your leadership teams to attend and participate in the workshops. This is a great opportunity to take advantage of the current virtual reality by having this be open to your entire company if you so choose. I’ll be sharing more specifics next week but get ready to talk leadership plans in Q1. Plan on attending Community day to take advantage of a great opportunity to learn and apply a framework of tools at your company to grow your leadership.
A couple of logistical notes this week:
- On February 6th we’re changing the URL of the hub to hub.connectwise.com. The old URL with redirect, but this is a heads up that the change is coming.
- Look for our first Evolve Newsletter summing up things you need to know in the next few weeks.
- We’re using the same platform for our meetings but it’s a new instance. It will be up and available January 29th. If you are currently registered for the Q1 Meeting, you will be pre-registered for the platform. Any team members you would like to join you for Community Day content will need to register separately on the meeting platform via the login page above. We encourage you to do that on Friday, Jan 29th prior to your Q1 meeting week.
I’ll leave you with another highlight reel from a Solutions Partner C-Level interview. This week it’s Arlin talking with Martin Golobic from Great America and Corey Kerns from Collabrance about what last year has meant to them in terms of clearing out competition and the opportunity create wealth going forward. If you're interested in hearing their full conversation, click here.
Looking forward to a great Q1 – thanks for being a part of evolve – stay healthy and lead strong!
-Brad