The Pathway to Better Leadership in Your Community Checklist™
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The Pathway to Better Leadership in Your Community Checklist™
If you are interested in having a positive impact in your community, on-line or off-line, then follow this pathway to better leadership checklist. It has worked me! Give it a try.
Identify Your Community
1. I have identified my community—those who engage with me and trust me:
Online
Locally
In specialty groups where I interact
Other________________________
2. I have identified:
Where I experience the most online interactivity and engagement
Where and with whom I like to spend my online time
If that community could be a paying market
3. I have asked myself and analyzed:
What would they pay for without thinking twice?
How I already help them
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4. I have identified the unspoken question underlying their struggles
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5. I have identified who I help in my local community, as well as how and why I help them
Connect with Your Community
Connect with Your Community
6. I have arranged to:
Present a free workshop or presentation at my local library
Present a free workshop or presentation for my local business organizations
Write a community-oriented article for my local newspaper
Offered to write a free regular column for my local newspaper
7. I have ensured I can be ready with a signature presentation and fill in at a moment’s notice at any gathering, when speakers cancel at the last minute
8. I understand that volunteering my time and expertise in my local community helps not only them, but helps me:
Increase my public presence
Become known for my specialty
Be viewed as their local expert in my field
Make valuable network connections
Build my reputation
Increase my self-worth
Help my neighbors
9. I am cultivating outward-looking attitudes based on caring, sharing, gratitude and love
10. I am focusing on being a glass-half-full person
11. I welcome challenges as opportunities to learn and grow
12. I understand that forgiveness is a process—and a choice
13. I have forgiven:
Everyone I need to forgive in my life
Myself
14. I understand that:
I can’t control other people, only myself
How I feel is also a choice I make
I have the power to choose
15. I am not going to take on other people’s ‘stuff’ any more
16. I take full responsibility for my choices
17. I understand that good listening is a skill that I absolutely must develop
18. When listening to someone, I eliminate distractions and give that person my full attention
19. I am no longer:
Processing what I want to say as they are talking
Jumping to conclusions or making assumptions about what they are wanting to communicate
Interrupting people I am supposed to be listening to
Other__________________________________________
20. I am:
Looking for non-verbal clues
Asking deep questions
Thinking before I speak
Following up on our conversation
Other___________________________________________
21. I do not hesitate to make notes about conversations I have just had, to remind myself of important details or actions I have to take
22. I am aware of the three different types of listening, and what differentiates them:
Internal listening
Focused listening
360 listening
23. I am working hard to practice 360 listening
24. I understand that good listening actively builds trust
Engage with Your Community
Engage with Your Community
25. I am living my core values—every day
26. I understand that micro-managing is not leading
27. I do things WITH my clients—not for them
28. I have set clear boundaries with my followers and clients by:
Defining when and how I will interact—and sticking to it
Never reducing my fees to accommodate a client with financial problems
Never stepping outside the times I have set for myself for either coaching or for volunteer work
Respecting my client or group member’s boundaries, too
Following through on what I have set up
29. I understand that setting up and honoring my own boundaries is one of the most priceless gifts I can share with my kids, my clients, and my community
30. I have identified what I want my community members to remember, think and feel about me and how I helped them, years from now
31. I have identified what I want my community to:
Learn
Share
Take away
Other___________________________________
32. I have answered the question, “What will the world miss when my business no longer exists?”
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33. I am actively and daily spending time with my community
34. I am spending significant time thinking about my community members, how I can best help them and what they really need
35. I am going deep and looking for that extra tweak that people need and appreciate
36. I have read up on critical thinking, if that is a new concept to me, and I am committed to practicing it from now on.
37. I am making it a regular practice to always go deep and look for that extra tweak my people need
38. When asking myself a question, I am:
Looking at all possible answers
Testing these possible answers
39. I am looking for—and asking—the questions that no one has thought of: Ones that desperately need to be addressed
40. When it comes to my business and brand, I am planning for longevity
41. I have asked myself:
What is it about my business idea that really excites me?
Will it sustain me in the long run?
Will it excite and help my community members for years down the line?
42. I have considered taking an online Critical Thinking course
Share with Your Community
Share with Your Community
43. I am looking outward and sharing by benefiting my community with one or more of the following:
Curation
Volunteer work
Donating to causes and charities
Setting up programs and funding
Other________________________________________________
44. I understand that my success can benefit the world and my community through these voluntary sharing and caring activities—and that I will be able to participate much more easily richer, rather than poorer!
45. I understand that my success helps my community members validate themselves too
46. I understand that my full commitment to positive leadership will help me make the world a better place
Conclusion/Call to Action
Are you ready to follow the pathway to better leadership? I hope that you will commit yourself to having a positive impact on your community.
Together we can make the world a better place. You and your community will grow and prosper when you begin to follow The Pathway to Better Leadership in Your Community Checklist™.
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For more articles on Leadership see:
How to Step into the Spotlight as a Leader and Public Speaker
5 Valuable Qualities of an Authentic Leader
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