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-ocusing on the Overall Mission while Implementing Details Skills, Behaviors, and Attitudes to Adapt and Practice Review your organization's strategic plan. Identify your work unit's role in accomplishing the plan. Make sure everyone understands and feels a part of the organization's mission. Never pass up an opportunity to share how the work being performed links to the overall mission. With your direct reports, review the work unit's operational plan. When your direct reports have ideas that help achieve your objectives, let them champion those ideas. Celebrate the accomplishment of incremental steps and details. Your team is more likely to stay focused on the details if they know you care and that their success is the organization's success. At least once a month, review goals and objectives so that all direct reports understand the target. Have team members report their individual status, ultimately shaping a comprehensive view of the group effort. Think about delegation when working on the details of a project. Are there activities you should do yourself or can certain details be delegated to someone else? Challenging Activities Write down your interpretation of the overall mission. Meet with your manager to check your understanding. Confirm that both interpretations are consistent. Attend meetings that keep you informed of the company's progress toward achieving the overall strategic plan. Report to your team on the company's progress. Area of Focus: Thinking Creatively Approachinq Your Job with Imaqination and Originality Skills, Behaviors, and Attitudes to Adapt and Practice Do not get too comfortable with the status quo. Constantly look for new opportunities and improved ways of doing business. Imagination and originality do not exist without knowledge gain. Knowledge growth is essential to nurture the intellect. It is the desire to learn that fuels your creative drive. Using imagination and originality consists of organizing existing elements into new and different ways to produce the desired outcome. The most valuable solutions can result when you pay attention to even the smallest ideas. Remember that your direct reports make things happen. Give them the creative freedom, as well as the resources they need, to meet your expectations. Do not hamper their creativity by constantly intervening. Challenging Activities Create an Imagination and Originality File. When you think of something creative regarding a problem or issue, record it. Consider any original, creative idea a possibility. Discourage direct reports from responding to suggestions that may belittle others for offering a creative solution. Statements that may prevent others from volunteering their ideas include: It will never work. • We explored that option ten years ago. • We're too short-handed to work on crazy ideas.