In today’s competitive environment where everyone feels over busy, overwhelmed, overcommitted it’s time to focus on accelerating your productivity and impact by being a strategic leader and thinking and acting differently.
Be a Thought Leader … not a thought repeater
In the global thought leadership community we help clever people commercialize their expertise. A thought leader is a subject-matter expert who has unique insights or perspectives to share in their area of expertise. Their ideas are packaged in an accessible and usually attractive format, and they are distributed to a market that is hungry for their insights in direction and solutions to problems. The ideas that they offer are often powerful enough to shift or contribute to the future direction of an industry, community or even a whole way of thinking. Can you immerse yourself in your expertise and share it contextually with the world? How can you develop your thought leadership?
Be Strategic versus Tactical
In Dianna Booher’s book, Creating Personal Presence, she shares great suggestions to thinking strategically versus tactically. A few questions she suggest you consider in your thinking:
- Long term versus short term
- Doing the right things versus doing things right
- Understanding why to do something versus understanding how to do something
Can you challenge yourself to think more strategically … rather than tactically?
Be a CEO (Chief Execution Officer)
Prioritize the beginning of every day with 30 minutes focusing on strategy. Avoid getting into the ‘stuff’ of your day without a clear plan to execute on strategic activities that will get your closer to your objectives. If you want to be more strategic and contribute to your personal and professional success you need to have the mindset of execution. Being a productive leader is about focusing on implementation and execution.
Do you do what you say you will do?
If you want to accelerate your personal productivity, increase your impact at work and within your community what actions can you take today to think and act be more strategically? Share your ideas with us here on our blog.
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