Do you regularly reflect on how you can be more impactful?
People get caught up in the doing and overlook the value in taking the time to reflect and decide how to develop and improve themselves.
Sharpen your Axe
As in the analogy that the tree cutters should take time to sharpen the axe so they can cut more trees down in less time; in the pursuit of outcomes and when leading others we should regularly ‘sharpen our axe’ to reflect and improve how we operate, lead and interact with others, to achieve our outcomes in a more impactful and effective way.
The best time to reflect and take action is now.
What is not working well? How could you be more effective?
Invest ten minutes in reflecting on how to improve your impact and be more successful
– Senior Manager, Health Care
“I took the time to complete the survey between meetings, received the report straight away and skim read the summary. I realised that recently I’d been putting far too much focus on achieving progress, but at the expense of relating to and nurturing others. I decided to change tack, and test it in that very next meeting. That was a pivotal change into more long term thinking, for me and for my management team, and since we have created a much more people-centric culture, while also improving the effectiveness of the organisation."
– Managing Director, Financial Services
“The questions themselves gave me a real chance to reflect and explore what methods I might be underusing, and the report backed this up and helped me plan how to take action."
– Lead Software Engineer, Big Tech
– CEO, Public Administration
The report will provide valuable and actionable insights
Filling in the survey itself gives some useful insights and reflections, and the report delivered to you directly afterwards creates many more insights and ideas for personal development and improvement, and guidance on how to implement these steadily and in a way that will maintain the behavioural changes you plan to make. Once you’ve made these changes and seen the benefits and increased impact and personal success, you can complete further self awareness reports in the future to plan your next aspects of self development, and observe how you have progressed since previous self awareness exercises.
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