Leveraging your mind map

Starting from the center of your mind map, ask yourself.

"What am I responsible for?"

For Elena, her first level nodes are:

• Myself
• My team
• Business impact
• Relationships with other Engineering
• Managers
• Technical excellence of my team's...

Take a look at your final nodes and evaluate your confidence in each responsibility on a scale of 1 to 10. Then ask yourself, "What can support me to keep this area successful?" The answer to this question may be:

• Processes
• Tools
• Techniques
• Questions
...

👤You've stepped into a new role

🤹‍♀️You're struggling to balance responsibilities

🔍 Identify and improve your self-management skills

🚨Avoid feeling overwhelmed and stay on top of it all

👷Build a system that helps you juggle all your responsibilities

Next, you can work on expanding your mind map. Breaking down each node will allow you to take a deeper look at where your skill gaps are and will also help you visualize the breadth of your responsibilities.

Add in the high-level responsibilities for all areas, and then keep narrowing down ...

You should now have a wide overview of all of your responsibilities and processes.

For any areas you rated below a 6, ask yourself,

"What next steps can I take to get more support?"

Come back once a month and re-rate each area to see how well you've been able to improve o...

Step 1: The center of it all

Step 2: Breaking it down

Step 3: Evaluate the supporting

Step 4: Action items