Building Up and Coaching Your Community College Advancement Team-Guided Notes

Guided Notes

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The document "Building Up and Coaching Your Community College Advancement Team" dated April 15, 2026, presents guided notes focused on fostering sustained excellence in community college advancement leadership. It outlines four core habits essential for success:<br /><br />1. Prioritize, Plan & Execute – Emphasizing alignment among college strategic plans, foundation/division plans, organizational key results, KPIs, and weekly reflection. Leaders are urged to identify their top three economic drivers to focus efforts strategically.<br /><br />2. Teach, Coach & Insist – Encourages setting clear standards (the “RIGHT” practices) and maintaining them consistently. Leaders are prompted to reflect on their strengths and leadership challenges, articulate feelings associated with difficult leadership behaviors, and formulate a clear leadership intention or declaration.<br /><br />3. Engage Your CASE Lifelines – Suggests leveraging professional connections in CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) by identifying two key contacts who can offer support or advice on current challenges.<br /><br />4. Renew to Stay Strong – Stresses the importance of personal renewal habits—physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual—that can be integrated daily, weekly, monthly, or each semester.<br /><br />The guide also includes sections on incorporating board engagement through structured “Connect-Give-Engage” conversations and aligning these with annual rhythms and expectations. Leaders are encouraged to reflect and plan immediate actionable steps, specifying what they will do, timing, involved parties, and intended outcomes. Additionally, consideration is given to evaluating and adjusting team rhythms for optimal effectiveness. Overall, the document serves as a reflective framework for developing leadership capacity, fostering team cohesion, and sustaining performance excellence in community college advancement.

Keywords

Community College Advancement

Leadership Development

Strategic Planning

KPIs

Coaching and Teaching

CASE Network

Personal Renewal Habits

Board Engagement

Team Cohesion

Performance Excellence