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Leadership New Year's Resolution?

In addition to vowing not to eat fast food more than twice a week, why not try including a resolution to improve your leadership skills? Think back through the year and find one thing that you did poorly. If you did more than one in a less than stellar fashion, categorize them. Pick the one that will have the biggest impact. Remember to pick something that is actually possible to do. After you have made your selection, write it down and then make a list of pros and cons about it. Really think about whether this is what you want to do. What are the benchmarks you would need to achieve in order to achive this goal? Write those down. Go to your outlook or other calendar software and create alerts to yourself. Try every two months. Follow the status of your progress through out the year. At the six month mark, you should start to see results.

If not, then you are probably just hitting "remind me later" on your alerts and not really paying attention to what you set out to do... a lot like you did with the one about fastfood.

posted by JMB @ 8:59 PM