Last week we laid out a tactical plan for how to make progress on your strategic projects.
I had some feed back about how people executed on the plan.
A Senior Leader of an organization with over 300 people, shared my blog with her direct reports and together they made plans for this week, honoring each others’ focused times and setting goals together. So, now they have created an accountability group within their team to move forward together. They are making this part of their culture.
A small business owner sent me an email mid week telling me about his day. Based on my blog, he took a really important but not “today urgent project” and set himself the goal of finishing it by the end of the day around all the interruptions by staff, phone calls from clients, etc. Each time when he finished with the interruption, he went back to his focus time and continued working on the project. He finished it by day end. He told me that the satisfaction he felt was unbelievable. And, that in the normal course of his workdays, this would never have happened.
Keep those strategic projects top of mind. Plan time to work on them. Find the small acts that have big results. Aargh. It is so annoyingly simple to describe and so hard to do consistently.
If you started this last week, keep going! If you haven’t started, there is no time like the present.
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