Improve Your Leadership With This Exercise
Being a leader is becoming ever more complex in this quickly paced, ever-changing environment.
To have the bandwidth necessary to lead at your best (whether that's your clients, your team, a company, or your household), you have to start with the facts.
First: what are all the things you do?
Second: of those, which should you keep, stop, start, and/or continue doing?
Here's an exercise to assist you:
List all the tasks you handle, whether they be daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually (sporadically and/or repetitively).
Once complete, highlight in green anything you enjoy and/or are great at doing.
Highlight in red anything you don't enjoy and/or are unskilled at doing.
Star anything you'd like to do more often.
Now consider what you want to keep on your plate, stop altogether, start doing/do more of, outsource, delegate, and/or automate (and to whom/what).
Like all the shifts we discuss, don't do them all at once. That's a recipe for overwhelm and poor results. Give it about 90 days to move through these shifts and then assess how things are going. Some of these choices (like delegation or outsourcing) may put more on your plate in the short term or have some upfront friction. The payoff will be worth it if you give it time.