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CompanyCommand.comPlatoonLeader.army.mil

• A community of professionals in the Army
  providing
• Exceptional Leadership at the Company Level

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• The consequences of losing in the Army are
  serious, so it makes sense that Army leaders are
  passionately committed to figuring out and
  sharing what works.

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Our Audience
Generic Timeline for Company-Level Officers
Co Cmd
Off-Track Assignment
Career Course
Commiss. Sources
OBC
PLT Ldr
4 yrs 6 months 3 Yrs
6 months 2 Yrs 3-5 Yrs
12,000 Platoon Leaders
3,800 Company Commanders
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What we are about
Every company-level leader worldwide connected in
a vibrant conversation about leading and
building combat-ready teams.
Vision

• Positive Voice with a focus on solutions
• Passion for Quality
• Committed to the Army
• Innovative Creative
• Grass Roots

Values
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What we are about

• We envision every company-level leader in the
  Army--past, present, and futureconnected
  together in a conversation about building
  effective units. Why?
• Professionals who are fiercely resolved to
  prepare for combat and who continually share what
  they are learning will be more effective and will
  grow more effective, combat-ready units.  

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Assumptions

• The knowledge of the profession resides in the
  minds of its members
• Connecting Leaders allows them to fulfill their
  professional identity prepare, share, stay
  cutting edge current, and develop equip the
  next generation
• Every member has valuable knowledge to share and
  is intrinsically motivated to do so
• Conversations transform
• We must add best-of-class value to currently
  serving Company Commanders
• Leaders learn best through their experience
• If they build it they will come grassroots
  ownership

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Our Story

• On the front porch (Lanai)

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The Model

• Sitting on the porchfriends sharing their ideas
  and stories about their profession
• Lateral sharing of knowledge across Army
• Centered on a specific practice
• Interactive, ongoing communication
• Bringing best practices to the surface
• Creating community
• Linking the hierarchical silos of knowledge
  throughout the Army to the field

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Integrative Learning Model
Hierarchical Formal, Explicit
Emergent Tacit, Expertise
Community of Practice
Assumption The Leader/Organization know what
best practice is and tell the field to implement
Assumption The touch points of the enterprise
know what best practice is.
The power to transform the organization happens
when you bring the formal and the informal
together!
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Community Development

• Book Taking the Guidon A practical
• guide for leading at the company-level
• Monthly Newsletter
• Regular Site Updates
• Hats/Mugs/Heavy Hitter awards
• Local Forums Rally Points!
• Partnership with Formal Training Programs
• Book Reading Program
• Video Interviews

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Leader Interviews
Focused video interviews designed to capture
company-level leadership insights. Leaders can
tap into timeless messages from organizationally
recognized heroes, and at the same time access
current and relevant interviews with leaders
fresh out of Afghanistan or on the ground in
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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ProReading--Vision
Serve company commanders in their professional
reading programs by enabling, modeling, and
encouraging them as they build their combat-ready
teams. Provide the Armys 20,000 company-level
leaders a culture shifting model of how their
colleagues mesh professional reading to mission
accomplishment by showing them how dedicated
commanders made it happen.
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Rob Thornton, HHC/1-24 IN, 1st SBCT
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One thing weve discovered lately!
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Community Leader Interaction

• Ray,
• I think you are a born Topic Lead my brother. One
  example is your note back on
• the soldier dying/educational IRA idea. You
  engaged with Art, you linked to
• another piece of content to let people know
  relevant content that they might not
• otherwise see, and you asked people to share
  their own ideas on the subject. It
• just doesnt get any better than that. Training
  note Create hyperlinked text. You
• can highlight a word and then click on the icon
  of the globe to hyperlink your text
• to other content on the site The subject of
  how to deal with a soldier dying in
• your unit is probably one that we need to bring
  to the top, so I am very interested
• in seeing if your note gets any response from
  other members in the community.
• Rock on Ray. It sure is awesome having you
  onboard!
• John for the team

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A Framework for Community Leader Interaction
Community Leader
Community Members
Practitioners who display two fundamental charact
eristics 1. A desire to be more effective in
the practice of their work 2. A desire to help
others be more effective - to invest in the
growth and development of others
Community Leader to Community Member interaction
consists of the following five elements 1. Clear
and frequent articulation of the communitys
purpose 2. Inspiration that the community member
can personally make a difference 3. Competence or
skill development, describing specifically how to
do something concrete within the
community 4. Encouragement around the impact the
community member has already made on the
community of practitioners 5. A statement of
relationship, showing an interest in the
community member that goes beyond the domain
of the communitys purpose
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Discussion