Self Manage: Self managing has two complementary components - self awareness and self discipline. Knowing who you are, your values, and your goals allows you to focus your actions. Your ability to control and discipline your actions ensures that your actions align with your values.
Reflect: We call reflection 20/20 hindsight in real time. Growing your insight and better understanding the meaning you assign to events and how you interpret what is happening around you empowers you.
Act Consciously: Aligning your thoughts, your words and your actions intensifies the results those actions produce. You must get clear about the outcome you really want and take only those actions that have the chance to produce your desired results.
Collaborate: Your ability to work well with others is the most important skill that you can develop. It will make - or can break - your career! More than compromise, collaborating seeks to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Evolve: Your growth and development is your job. Learning new skills, understanding the dynamic world and market within which you operate is critical to your enjoying a fruitful and prosperous career.
Your employees are counting on you to be stable, inspiring, open, and passionate. Hard to really do, when you are standing in the middle of your own life adventure, unclear how you got here or where you are going.
As the manager, your ability to work from a strongly developed platform of skills enables you to achieve results and lead others. Beyond pop psychology, the 5 savvy skills serve as a platform of strength from which you can take action.
