Welcome to the first in-depth lesson
Hopefully you had a great set of discussions this last week and now have a better understanding of how you are perceived in your organization. Today we will start our first formal lesson: understanding how to elevate your thinking and approach your job from the level above you (or from the CEO’s vantage point).
Note-taking is highly recommended
I highly recommend that you take notes while watching these videos and then revisit those notes in the future. Research has shown that note-taking + follow-up review can increase your retention by 50% or more.
Watch the lesson
Assignment Step 1
Do a retrospective of a project or initiative you recently completed and ask yourself
- What knowledge / skills / business context would have allowed you to do that job more effectively in retrospect?
- Are you approaching this project from the individual lens or from the broader lens of your manager / the CEO? What would you have done differently if you had used that broader perspective?
- For your past projects/work assignments, have you approached them with a Business First mindset? How would you approach these assignments differently after having watched this lesson?
Assignment Step 2
Apply this lesson to a current / active assignment you are working on
- Define the knowledge / skills / business context that you need in order to attack this assignment with a higher-level perspective.
- Find the 20% time to go close whatever capability or knowledge gap you identified in the bullet above.
- Take that elevated perspective, mix in a ‘solve for business first’ mindset, and see how it changes the way you are approaching your assignment.