Importance of planning for
successful leadership and management
The month of resolutions post 2 of 3...
I have found in my many
discussions with leaders of my organization that many of them do the below 5
things on a daily basis, and many of them do it before 10 a.m.
1. Exercise
2. Map out The Day
3. Eat a Health
Breakfast
4.
Visualization
5.
Make the Day Top Heavy
(highlighting
denotes parallel to planning)
There is a natural and
innate ability (or need) that some people have to planning their days. Some
people need others to do it for them and some just simply just go with the
flow. Now whether this is paper planner or a digital planner, 3 of the top 5
things that successful leaders and people do BEFORE they start their day are
deal with planning.
Now for this blog post I
will tackle each of the 3 of the top 5 things that successful leaders and
people do BEFORE they start their day individually, relating them back to
planning and explain the rationale behind the importance of these 3 planning
devices.
Map Out the Day
I map out my day in
either the day prior or first thing in the morning. I map out everything from
the route I will take to my daughter’s school and work to what I have to
accomplish when I get off work. I map out the events of task of the day at work
that I must accomplish to maintain high levels of performance.
Visualization
Sit back, close your
eyes, take a deep breath and see yourself accomplishing everything that needs
to be accomplished that day – successfully. This requires a person to know what
is occurring during the day and planning can make this task in the morning much
easier.
When I am able to open
my planner and know where I am supposed to be, why I am supposed to be there,
what I may need while I am there and at what time and location am supposed to
be there I can visualize myself conquering that meeting, that event, that
assignment and/or that customer request.
Make the Day Top Heavy
Now we all know that
during the course of the day that there are thing that must be done that we do
not necessarily want to do or are not looking forward to doing it. These are
those tasks that can be put off ad put off, until it becomes detrimental to do
it. By this point much time and energy has been wasted on not wanting to
complete this task that must inevitably be done. This is where great planning
skills come into effect. Tackle those skills first, plan to do the things that
you do not want to do before all the “fun” stuff.
My planner in sense is
my life on paper. It is everything that I am thinking, everything that I have
going on in both my personal and professional live in a single accessible
simple place.
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