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Take Your Wins with You

1/10/2024

By Beth Porter, Four Corners Broadcasting

Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the new! Before we all go charging into 2024 with new ideas about leadership and teamwork, let’s take a moment to reflect on the year just past. Cataloging our triumphs…and examining our defeats…reinforces our strengths and informs our weaknesses. There is great value in revisiting those leadership attributes that have led to success. Instead of starting with a clean slate, let’s build on our past achievements, our skills and knowledge base, our hard-won wisdom.

As you look back on 2023, what were the major projects or improvements you and your team tackled this past year? Which were successful? Take a deep dive to identify the whys of those successes. Add your own success qualifiers to fully understand what your team and you as a leader bring to the table for 2024.

Here are some items to get you started:

Was it a quantifiable success?
Was it a timely success?
Is it a project that still yields benefits to your organization or to team members?
Which of your leadership skills were integral to this challenge? For instance
- Decisiveness
- Integrity
- Communication
- Problem solving

What were the leadership highlights?

Creativity
Flexibility
Relationship building

Now take the time to evaluate the team. What skills or attributes did each team member bring to the project that led to success? How could they work better together? If you need to add to the team, either to grow it or to replace someone, what are the key skills and personality traits you want to fill that position with regards to the rest of the team?

The results of this deep dive give you a template for future projects. Of course, areas that need improvement probably came to mind during this exercise. Note those as well. Think about the team you have going forward. Which of their skills are underutilized? Can an individual or the team as a whole benefit from new resources? Training? Shifting their position or responsibilities? If, like so many of us, you need to fill a position, what are the skill or personality gaps?

This immersive review gives you an idea of the areas you need to improve upon, and as an added bonus, gives you a dynamic basis for individual team member reviews.

Before tackling how to improve in the coming year, give yourself the time and space to appreciate everything you are. This has become my morning mantra, paraphrased from “Undeniably Fierce Morning Manifesto” by Jennifer Ransaw Smith, founder of Personal Elevation Lab:

Bring your full self to the world. Think of your stories. The countless wins. Those dues you’ve already paid. You are undeniably fierce! There is no one else who has the exact mixture of talent, skills, education, experience, creativity, successes, failures, background, life perspective or je ne sais quoi. You are an undeniable asset to every team, project and organization. Know your worth and except nothing less from the universe!

Looking for an immersive experience in leadership development or to develop leadership skills for a team member? Consider Leadership La Plata this year. Check out www.LeadershipLaPlata.org for more information.

Beth Porter is the Senior Marketing Consultant with Four Corners Broadcasting and an alumni of Leadership La Plata Class of 2015-2016.

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LLP - It's that time of year again!

1/2/2024

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January 1, 2024

Dear Fellow Leadership La Plata Alumni,

We hope you’ve found your LLP experience to reinforce the value of strong community connections. If you haven’t been engaging with our alumni programming, come reconnect with us in 2024 and double down on your LLP investment!

We are requesting your continued support for LLP through paying your annual Alumni Dues of $45. As an incentive, if you pay your LLP dues in January or February you will be entered in a drawing for one of three $25 gift cards. We will hold the drawing on February 29th and contact the lucky winners.

To pay your dues, please do one of the following:

To pay your 2024 dues click here. (click “Register” below the price chart. Yes, it will refer to you as an “Attendee” and refer to your payment as your “Registration.” That’s right!)
Mail a check in the amount of $45 (+ any amount of donation if desired) to Durango Chamber (include “LLP Alumni Dues” on the memo line), P.O. Box 2587, Durango, CO 81302

Your dues provide scholarships and financial assistance to new class members and support the creation of alumni events and programs. In the past year, these are some of the engaging activities that we have facilitated:

LLP Alumni hosted a Beer and Food Pairing event in April at Steamworks
LLP Alumni volunteered at Brewfest to help set up for the event in August
The highly anticipated return of the LLP Kitchen event was held in September
The annual Meet and Greet for the 2023-2024 LLP Class was held at Steamworks in September
The collaborative Volunteer Day was in October with YPODs and Chamber Diplomats at the Manna Soup Kitchen Garden

Upcoming Alumni Events in 2024 and Reasons to Celebrate:

The Class of 2023-2024 is well underway, follow them on the LLP Facebook or Instagram pages
Stay tuned for the date of our popular annual Tasting and Food Pairing event!
The annual fall Volunteer Day will continue
The new class Meet and Greet will welcome the class of 2025
Let us know if you’d like to see or support a particular event!

Interested in joining an LLP Committee? Please contact Janae Hunderman at [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support!
Nora Stafford and Suzanne Serianni
LLP Alumni Committee Co-Chairs
Janae Hunderman
LLP Steering Committee Chair

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