Skirt Strategies: The Workbook

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This is a 52-week study guide



Build your leadership skills, one week at a time.

- Identify a critical relationship at work.
- Conduct an expectations-setting dialog.
- Review your leadership strengths.
- Assess your career exhaustion and find what regenerates you.
- Select one item for development and set a goal. Use an organizational tip to assess your desktop efficiency.
- Read a communications technique and try it out on someone.  
- Specialty areas like Creativity Week, Movie Week, and Community Week

Your Leadership Compass
Second Quarter

This is the second of four quarterly assessments known as The Leadership Compass.  This can be forward looking as well as retrospective.

The Leadership Compass considers three key areas in leadership deployment and how you position yourself in the workplace.
Look back at Week 3 to review what your first quarterly assessment looked like.   

What do you intend?   Clear intent

What do you tolerate?  Define what you tolerate

What are your choices?  Be aware of daily choices

Intend:
What do you intend in leading others? And how clear has it been?

Tolerate:
You stand for what you tolerate. In the past two weeks, have there been any areas you have tolerated, thinking you were being flexible or avoiding conflict, that you feel you should have held the line for just a little more? What are the guidelines for what you do tolerate and what is non-negotiable?

Choose:
What are some of your daily choices? How conscientious have you been about the choice you have made and are there any you would like to adjust?

Study the model, adapted from Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Urgent:   
An activity that is staring us in the face.  It has to be done, or appears to have to be done, but we sometimes need to test that.  It also may take on the appearance of being important, simply because the urgency makes it seem so.  Again, something we should test by asking “What would happen if this was NOT done?”

Important:   
Defined as important when it is something that supports your mission, or a value.  If it does not get attention, then something that we want (long-term) may never get achieved.

Category    
A    Urgent and Important  Ex:  Crises, Deadlines, Specific calls
B    Important and Not Urgent   Ex: Long term goals, Wishes, Balancing Life activities, Preventive, planning, Calls from key customers
C    Urgent and Not Important   Ex:  Necessary paperwork, Some incoming calls you answer
D    Not Urgent and Not Important    Ex: Some down time

List the activities that you have performed in the last week, using the chart below.
Assess their category.
Circle any in Category C
    These are activities that you would like to eliminate
Circle those in Category B
    These are activities that are typically difficult to get on the calendar, but that are important.

Reward yourself and make an appointment with yourself to spend an hour in a bookstore relaxing with a latte and looking through books.

Find one leadership book to read that sounds of interest to you.

www.SkirtStrategies.com has a book section for women in leadership. Use this for ideas, but please help add to its value by contributing to it. Submit a review or submit a title that you want to hear from others about.

Book you have selected:

Set a goal. When would you like to have finished this book?

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