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Profiles CheckPoint 360° Competency Feedback SystemTM Individual Development Guide for <br />Sally Sample <br />Area of Focus: Achieving Results <br />Overcoming Obstacles to Complete Projects Successfully <br />Skills, Behaviors, and Attitudes to Adapt and Practice <br />Remember that obstacles are opportunities to help build your leadership skills. <br />When you see a need or problem that you wish someone would address, ask yourself if you could <br />be doing something about it. <br />Identify the obstacles that are impeding your progress on a project and develop plans for action to <br />overcome them. <br />Consider that when something is not working, you may need to develop another approach. <br />Determine who can help you look at the issue objectively and brainstorm possible solutions. <br />Pull your work unit together as a group to solve problems. Use your direct reports as sounding <br />boards in areas where they have expertise. Avoid premature judgment of others' ideas. <br />Identifying risk areas in the initial stages of planning is one way you can anticipate and prepare for <br />potential problems. Prevent problems by analyzing their cause. <br />Look for new technology that can increase your work unit's efficiency. <br />Use humor to keep difficulties in perspective. <br />Challenging Activities <br />When an obstacle hinders the successful completion of a project, gather your team together, <br />getting input from everyone involved in the project and brainstorm about the causes for the <br />obstacle and possible solutions. Create a table with the following columns to help you arrive at a <br />solution: <br />Obstacle <br />List the probable causes for this obstacle and rate them for probability (A - Z with A being high <br />probability). <br />List five suggestions for a solution. Rate these suggestions (1 - 5 with 1 being most probable <br />solution). <br />• What are the steps for implementing the solution? <br />Effecting Outcomes that Set High Standards for Others <br />Skills, Behaviors, and Attitudes to Adapt and Practice <br />Set high standards for performance in every aspect of the business. <br />Work to exceed customer expectations. <br />Involve everyone in the commitment to quality. Make sure they understand that excellence is good <br />business. <br />0,0 <br />to <br />ct <br />a <br />