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Writer's pictureAlyx Tibbitts

we VALUE why

From a young age, I have been recognized as a leader. In 4th grade, my teacher arranged our desks into groups, and each group had a team captain. The team captain was then responsible for choosing their team mates who would compete with them in various contests. Every few weeks, a winning team would be announced, new team leaders would be selected, and we would change groups.


I was chosen several times over the course of that school year.


Various teachers and church leaders tapped me for leaderships off and on for the rest of my elementary and secondary education. At least once a year, I received a letter from some child leadership program inventing me to a summer leadership trip. While I never went, it became a regular part of my life growing up. I never actively sought out leadership positions, but they seemed to follow me no matter where I moved.


When I started my college experience, I once again got an unsolicited invitation for a leadership program. This one was for the National Honor Society for Leadership and Success. I had apparently been nominated by someone (I still don't know who). After having to decline many invitations over the years, I decided I would pay the admission fee and join the honor society. Over the next couple of years, I attended various leadership trainings to gain full membership in the society. They taught me goal setting, provided me with a group to hold me accountable to said goals, and hosted various well-known leaders I could learn from.


As I was promoted to leadership positions at work, and asked to take on leadership positions at church, I still didn't understand why I was being asked to fill those positions. I am not the most organized and I am constantly forgetting things. But I cared about the people I was being asked to lead. I considered others opinions, sometimes before even voicing my own. I accepted responsibility because I wanted to help, not because I wanted to pay or prestige of the position.


Over the last year and a half, I have been learning to embrace my leadership potential, and have decided to learn everything there is to know about good leaders. Instead of setting goals to reach the next promotion, I have set the goal to be the best I can be at my current position. I made a list of qualities that the best leaders possess, and I choose one to work on every few weeks. I use down time at work to watch Ted talks from well-known leaders. I complete Linked-in learnings on leadership.


Both from my own experience as a young leader, and from learning from other's experiences, I have come to realize that having empathy and defining why you are in leadership makes all the difference.


While I can apply this with no problems in my professional life (you know, my full-time job with a well established company I go to everyday), I hadn't clearly and succinctly defined why I started Battalion Press. I knew it was my own personal goal to uplift and inspire future writers, but I hadn't defined how that applied to the publishing company.


So without further ado, I introduce the Battalion Press Values:



This is why I started Battalion Press. This is what we value as we publish books. If this sounds like something you might like, we have 4 books we have published so far. You can go read one of those. If you are an author, and this sounds like a publishing company you would like to work with, stay tuned. I need to grow the company some more before I can start buying manuscripts, but there is nothing more I would like to do once I have the capital to invest in some awesome authors.


Until next time,

Alyx

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