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.
Lesson 1:
Thinking like your boss (or the CEO)
Time to complete: 1 week
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.