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Happy March.
To support you in being F.I.R.S.T. (Future-Ready. Innovative. Relevant. Strategic. Trusted.), here's 1 tip, 1 question and 1 quote.
1. The F.I.R.S.T. Tip
Today’s fast-changing work environment requires us to adapt to on-going shifts in our roles and responsibilities.
Depending on our mindset, the constant change can either make us feel burnt out or charge us up.
Satya Nadella, who as CEO, led an impressive culture revolution at Microsoft, shared how he was inspired by Stanford professor Carol Dweck’s book, MINDSETS. ‘If you take two people, one of them is a know-it-all and the other is a learn-it-all, the learn-it-all will always trump the know-it-all in the long run, even if they start with less innate capability.’
When you embrace learning as a way of life, you become more agile, resilient and able to adopt new skills quickly. This will always power up your development and your career.
Tip: Don’t be a know-it-all; be a learn-it-all.
2. The F.I.R.S.T. Question
The COVID years have taken a huge toll – more and more people are feeling burnt out and overwhelmed. And this will only get worse unless we learn to balance the burden.
Instead of continually adding to our workload, which a lot of us tend to do, we must learn to eliminate stuff from our agenda periodically, and whenever we add something to it.
Only then will we be able to create space for the most important things in life; health, relationships, learning, applying the learning to deliver results, and of course, rest and recuperation.
Continually balancing your load is the key to productivity and performance.
So, remember to ask yourself, regularly, ‘What is one thing I can stop doing?’
Start with something small that you can delegate, defer or drop.
Keep the balance.
3.The F.I.R.S.T. Quote
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