📝Step1: Creating a Lead Ride Sherpa

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Lead Ride Sherpa

This requires continual reflection, candid discussion, and, most importantly, focused action. A strategically designed process can foster program effectiveness. Lead Ride Champions are required at the city level to drive active mobility at the city level. A City might have multiple champions who need to be endorsed by the city leadership.

*"Strategy and culture are among the primary levers at top leaders’ disposal in their never-ending quest to maintain organizational viability and effectiveness. Strategy offers a formal logic for the company’s goals and orients people around them. Culture expresses goals through values and beliefs and guides activity through shared assumptions and group norms."

Src: https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-leaders-guide-to-corporate-culture

Lead Ride Champion should be able to create the right culture through appropriate strategy. He should also build a team with the following critical factors -

1. Build a Real Team to make things happen on the ground 2. Provide Compelling Direction to enable Active Mobility at Scale. 3. Create an Enabling Structure to ensure lead ride success. 4. Link and Bridge Supportive Context to ensure funding and enabling and support from the city leadership. 5. Provide Expert Coaching to Lead ride buddies to ensure goals are aligned

Functionality	Capabilities
Strategic Thinker	Encourages strategic thinking
Visionary	Identifies opportunities for improvement and education in Active Mobility
Bridge	Promotes City Leadership and Civilian Leadership alignment towards enabling Active Mobility
Listener	Cultivates a healthy culture by offering constructive dialogues
Builder	Highlights Lead Ride team composition needs and creates the team
Mapper	Fosters deeper interaction among corporate, city leadership, academic and communities and ecosystem
Collaborate	Creates stronger, more collaborative relationships among ecosystem players
Driver	Drives city leadership focus on important strategic and governance matters for enabling Active Mobility
Missionary	Enhances strength of governance practices for creating Active Mobility Infrastructure, Communication and Tranformation

Responsibility

Strategy and Strategic Execution

• Developing / Clarifying our Strategy for enabling Active Mobility

• Different strategies for growth of Lead Ride in the city

• Aligning / Executing our Strategy at Speed

Transforming Spaces

• Leading Change to make Active Mobility Work for cities

• People and Processes over Technology

Leadership

• Craft and share a vision for the city to make active mobility success - Spread a Mindset, not just a Footprint.

  • Co-create the vision

  • Embed the vision into operations

  • Maintain focus and alignment around the vision

• Mobilizing for Successful Change by Bring People Together - Aligning key stakeholders in the Active Mobility Ecosystem – Connect people and cascade excellence

  • Persuading your organizational superiors, peers, and subordinates

  • Recruiting support and overcoming resistance

  • Energizing new behavior through information, incentives, and empowerment

  • Staffing a change team with a Buddy Network.

  • Sequencing change

  • Developing 100-day transformation plan inside the city with focus on active mobility.

• Personal leadership effectiveness to be the role model

• Unlock Potential Across Academia and Schools by creating a Buddy Network - Shared leadership for outcomes

• Generational transitions

Team - People to Power Lead Ride

• Attracting, Recruiting, Building a growth team of people committed to Active Mobility

• Retaining, Developing & Training Lead Ride Buddies for Active Mobility

• Motivating for performance and growth of Lead Ride Buddy Network

• Building new capabilities in Active Mobility Innovation

• Culture & organizational development to make Lead Ride Succeed on a grand scale.

Lead Ride Sherpa Tasks

Preparation

Preparation is real work. It involves study, to be sure—thinking, reading, visiting other organizations where cycles are used, attending mobility related seminars and conferences, and doing whatever else one can do to expand and deepen one's knowledge of the best ways to create, support, and lead for making Lead Ride as a premier event in the city.

Envisioning

It also involves imaginative work—envisioning what might be created, what the teams would do, how they would be set up and led.

Action & Delivery

And, finally, it involves political action—sharing with others one's vision of how Active Mobility should be prioritized and what they could accomplish, building a coalition of organization members who are prepared to support that vision, and taking initiatives to align the interests of powerful and potentially skeptical others whose cooperation will be necessary to launch Lead Ride and sustain active mobility in the city.

Lead Ride Buddy

Transform Knowledge Into Impact

L - Learn about Active Mobility

E - Engage with Active Mobility

A - Accelerate Transformation of Active Mobility

D - Disrupt your organization/city/neighborhood and drive meaningful change

• Love Cycling : Think of cycling as a craft. Find joy in cycling and better approaches to solve problems. Tough problems of mobility and Transformation of Mobility excites.

• Learn Cycling Transformations around Globe : Individually learn with minimum handholding. Able to grasp and produce cycling themes and has a depth in knowledge.

• Communicate Cycling : Articulate your thoughts and suggestions well about cycling.

• Showcase Cycling : Spread cycling. Show the merits of cycling practice.