Gaining public speaking experience. | Managing commitments to earn higher value work assignments. |
Increasing your visibility with your organization. | Taking on more of a leadership / management role. |
Improving a technical skill. | Acquiring new creative talents such as design thinking. |
Mastering create talents such as visual communication. | Finding ways to be more productive and make better use of time. |
Listening and building upon the ideas of others. | Pursuing higher levels of cooperation and collaboration with others. |
Learning about your industry. | Developing and sustaining industry relationships. |
Building credibility with internal stakeholders or customers. | Increasing work throughput. |
Increasing work quality. | Learning to thrive in difficult customer service situations. |
Increasing your capabilities in your profession e.g. software developer who begins to architect projects. | Increased diligence such as preparing agendas for meetings. |
Closing sales and generating revenue. | Solving problems to be viewed as the go-to-person for issues. |
Conducting research and experiments to improve strategies, plans, designs and decisions. | Identify new revenue opportunities. |
Pitch ideas for business improvement with persistence and resolve. | Deliver to commitments to earn trust and credibility. |
Develop standards, processes and practices for your team / organization. | Take on high value work that others avoid. |
Develop a strong work ethic. | Identify valuable efficiencies and cost reductions. |
Become more open to criticism. | Be honest and candid with yourself. |
Truly believe in what you're doing. | Develop a drive to win. |
Try to adopt an abundance attitude whereby the successes of others don't diminish your success. | Trust those around you and build them up. |
Adopt a genuine interest in others. | Develop a strong sense of curiosity and interest in your business and industry. |
Try hard to make reasonable decisions / set reasonable directions. | Make decisions in the face of uncertainty and change. |
Provide a sense of certainty to others in an uncertain world. | Develop awareness around how you impact others and how you are perceived. |
Learning to handle intensive/stressful office politics. | Developing general grit and resilience. |
Being polite, respectful and charming e.g. remembering/using people's names. | Increasing your capacity for self-control e.g. easily overcoming procrastination to do what needs to be done. |
Getting good at perceiving social situations such as rivalries between people. | Reading the emotion behind what people say. |
The ability not to obsess / worry about things that are beyond your control. | Getting good at troubleshooting and quickly resolving technical problems. |
Improving pitches to clients, management and business units. | Trying to appreciate the different approaches and perspectives others bring to the table. |
