Intentional Individual
The Leadership Journeys: Intentional Individual
No one is making you do it. You just know it’s time. Something in your gut is just telling you to go on a Leader Journey.
Maybe some of these reasons are swirling around in your head:
Maybe you’ve struggled to lead people well and you just can’t put your finger on why.
Maybe you have that unsettling feeling of “I don’t know what I don’t know—but I need to start knowing something.”
Maybe you got a little taste of leader development training and you really want to be intentional to get all that you can in this season.
Maybe you’ve seen enough leadership modeled that makes you say to yourself: “Well, that’s not it!”
Maybe it’s “Just because.”
Whatever your reasons, we would love to go with you and see you thrive! There are many ways to go about this journey. We’d like to think we have a decent grasp on the “main things” that will make the biggest difference. We believe those main things fall under three categories:
Being a person worth following
Providing crucial clarity of purpose, vision and values
Building a great team
Let’s quickly break these three ideas down into their basic parts. First, being a person worth following is all about authenticity and approachability. The former looks like being comfortable in your own skin and having self-awareness around your strengths and weaknesses. The latter is about having the humility to be open to feedback as a means of continuous self-improvement.
You will also need to provide crucial clarity in the areas of purpose, vision and values. Success will largely depend on your ability to articulate:
Why your team exists (purpose)
What your team needs to accomplish at a set time (vision)
What kinds of behaviors will be tolerated, celebrated and rejected along the way (values)
And finally, when you’re leveling up, you also need to be able to build a great team. To borrow from Jim Collins, you need to know how to get the right people in the right seats. And how to keep them there. You need to motivate and develop them, and prepare them to lean into healthy conflict (when necessary) for the sake of a healthy culture.
How we focus you in on these three pillars is outlined in our Rootstock Intentional Individual Journey Map.
Dig in and get started: we’ll see you on the trail!