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You Finish Strong

Last week’s Tuesday Tip helped get you focused on leading or participating in the best meetings possible to end the year strong. Today’s tip will continue on that theme but from a personal level.  This is a very practical exercise that will help you make sure you end the year with everything wrapped up and ready for the New Year.

Go to imapMyTeam.com, log in and then please run your Getting Things Done Snapshot. It is a 2 page “at-a-glance” report that can be found using the drop down menu under your personal reports section in the center of your home page.

The first snapshot page concisely describes three strength characteristics that define how you typically move something from decision to completion.

•                  Your  process of making a decision
•                      The speed at which you implement those decisions once made, and
•                      How you work all of the various To-Do’s you have on your plate.

You will see a diamond symbol on a gray bar (that symbol can be located anywhere on that continuum).

The further left or right the symbol is printed on that continuum, the more your strength will mirror the description that is written to the corresponding left or right hand side. If your symbol is located towards the middle of that continuum then your strengths are more of a balance of the left and right hand side.

The second snapshot page succinctly describes three conditions that you expect and are personally important for you to use your strengths from page 1.

•          How much time you prefer to think about a decision
•          How you keep yourself physically ‘recharged’, and
•          How to stay on top of your To-Do list.

The symbols and bars on the second page work as the first page in terms of intensity or balance.

It is a quick but powerful exercise, to compare this report with colleagues that you are working with. Page 2 is the fuel that gets you to the finish line. It is important information for me to understand about you and vice versa.

It is not uncommon for people to have opposite intensity on the two pages. For instance, being decisive in most circumstances; but needing time to think and perhaps slowing down decisions in other cases. When those opposite intensities are present in any of the three areas it is even more important to talk that out with your manager, peer or direct report because this is where they may not realize how personally important that need is to you.

As you work hard to bring 2015 to a successful close, you can depend on imapMyTeam to give you the insight you need stay on track so You Finish Strong!