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Technical Community Guild Leader
Issued by
IBM
Badge earner demonstrates the technical leadership skills and commitment required to lead an engaged and effective Technical Guild towards our goals of improving skills, assets, and community for guild members. To achieve this the badge earner must have developed/employed the "soft skills" required such as: planning & visioning, community outreach, goal setting, effective presentations, community communications, team building. Goal is to go beyond technical depth - become a leader.
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Skills
Earning Criteria
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Must be an employee of IBM.
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Volunteer to run an existing or a new Guild. Successfully lead or co-lead the guild for at least a 1 year timeframe.
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Attend regular Guild-of-Guilds meetings, channels, and participate in collective activities to collaborate with other guild leaders on how to improve our guild leadership skills and thus make our guilds more effective.
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Your guild leadership skills/actions result in guild members skills being improved in a tangible way. Depending upon the type of guild, the specific means and outcomes of skill development may vary. For example: guild members certified/trained, guild learning sessions run, guild members advised or helped in how to resolve issues, lessons learned are published, hack-a-thons run.
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Your guild leadership skills/actions result in new assets being developed or existing assets being leveraged. The guild leader "crowdsources" the knowledge/talents/focus areas of guild members to collectively develop and leverage assets. Asset types will vary but may include examples such as: reference models, software, algorithms, papers, articles, references, award applications. Ideally at least one asset per year published on lighthouse, w3 publisher, or externally.
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Your guild leadership skills/actions result in a high level of community engagement within the guild. Criteria for an active engaged guild may include: having an active slack channel (e.g. minimum 20 messages per month), mentors quickly assigned to guild members who request it, number of guild members increased yearly, guild community outreach meetings held (at least quarterly), holding engagement events, implementing innovative new ways to collaborate, presenting at conferences.
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Your guild leadership skills are demonstrated by how you vision, plan, communicate, present, and inspire. Demonstrate planning skills by collaborating with guild members and publishing a guild charter with focus areas, goals, and activities. Demonstrate communications skills by running effective sessions. Demonstrate presentation skills by virtual or in-person presentations. Demonstrate that you inspire guild members towards collaborating to achieve shared goals.