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Buddy Up
Find other people to think with and bounce ideas back and forth.
If you’re a manager, buddy with someone who reports to you: teammates who don’t often get the chance to strategize will be energized by the opportunity. This way, your teammates will feel ownership over the conclusions you come to together, and you’ll gain focus and clarity.
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Choose Specific Goals
Breaking your big picture into specific doable goals will make it much more actionable. Especially if they come with a finite timeline.
Big questions are worth asking but they should be framed in a way that doesn’t feel burdensome or insurmountable.
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Allocate Time To Think
If you just do what’s next on your to-do list, you won’t find time to think about the big picture.
Block off time on your calendar based on when you’re most creative (morning, afternoon, evening).
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Ground Yourself In Reality
Brainstorming lets you speculate without restriction, but your ideas must be checked against reality. Be realistic about what options are actionable, and then take the next steps.
Encourage teammates to submit ideas into a single project. Then, have everyone like their favorit...
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Identify First Steps
Big tasks tend to lead to procrastination if we don’t immediately choose the first steps. Study past similar tasks, the necessity for it and how to achieve it.
Having a time and a place when you know you’ll need to present your ideas to an audience is a good way to force you to struc...
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Follow up after smaller group meetings
Each time you have a comment or question that you didn’t get a chance to raise in a meeting is a new opportunity for you to approach and spark a conversation with someone later, one-on-one. Whether it’s congratulating someone or asking a brief question, you will have a few conversation t...
Progress Your Success Chart:
Identify measures of success.
- What would increased proactivity in identifying and solving problems look like in practice? How will you know if you’re making progress?
- Based on your thinking about what you want to achieve and the reading you’ve done, ...
Visualize how you show up — not a specific outcome
Try this kind of visualization practice anytime you’re preparing for a high-stakes situation. It could be a job interview, your first day of work, or even how you want to come across with new colleagues after being hired.
Designing the way you want to show up, and not what prize you’ll...
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