Career Change In The Pipeline Or Possibly Starting A Business?
How many time in the past have you written out a list of things to do
? How many times have you completed the list and written the second list the following day? What if there was a better way to ensure that you stay focussed.
2010 marks a new beginning in the way that I work with my clients. It also marks a new beginning in terms of the way that I manage my own business. That ensures congruency.
I have struggled in the past to keep clients focussed on their list of things to do. The reason for this is that they generally became pre-occupied with other events in their daily lives. In other words, they were allowing other people and events to control their lives and there was no over riding discipline to prevent that.
If you are attempting to implement a change, then this exercise will yield good results. Maybe you are changing career, starting a new business or changing direction?
The new way of working is based on the power of Reflection as discussed in The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson.
I am challenging each client to identify about 5 key things that they need to complete each day or week in their business. They have agreed that these things are vital to the long term success of the business but they often neglect them in favour of more urgent issues.
This is followed by a daily reporting of activities focussing on the important issues as hand.
Scepticism reigned at first followed by a slow realisation that they were neglecting the important things in their business.
To cement the thought process, I used the Time Target idea by Stephen Covey 7 Habits to stress that the items identified were important but not urgent. They were the business building items but they needed work every day.
Im expecting great results and already people have said that their focus is on completing their important tasks each day.
The change we have implemented here is a small one. We are implementing the power of reflecting and using some predefined measures as our benchmark.
It is a better way to hold both you and your team accountable.
If you are considering a career change or are planning on starting a new business, then each of these steps will require a great deal of change, which, when broken down into easy steps will be far more achievable. When you then introduce accountability by reflection, you boost your chances of success.
by: Derek O'Dwyer
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