Self-Management Questions - discover ways to stretch yourself

Self-Management Questions

Discover ways to stretch yourself

Question everything, ask a lot of searching questions if you want to stretch your capabilities, innovate and create much higher value.

Identify Your Personal Aims

Answer the following questions as best you can:

❶ What are your personal long-term and short-term goals?

❷ What specific objectives must you meet in the next period of time?

❸ How will you measure success towards your goals and what feedback do you have to check your results against your goals?

❹ What new initiatives could I take to achieve beyond my current goals?

Making a Contribution: Ask Yourself

❶ What do I want to contribute? What value do I want to create?

❷ What am I told to contribute?

❸ What should I contribute to achieve higher results?

❹ Where and how can I achieve breakthrough results that make a big positive difference?

❺ What qualities and abilities have I shown myself to possess? What abilities do I want to strengthen?

❻ Am I always learning forward in order to get the fullest benefit from my own strengths, while helping others to do likewise?

The Three Regular Questions

Effective managers ask themselves periodically these three questions:

① What am I doing that does not need to be done at all?

② What am I doing that can be done by somebody else?

③ What am I doing that only I can do?

Measure Your Management Potential

Assess yourself of the four points below to identify area in which you should improve:

① What have I done well in the past year?

② What qualities and abilities have I shown myself to possess?

③ Am I always learning in order to get the fullest benefit from my own strengths, while helping others to do likewise?

④ Why would I recommend somebody's son or daughter to work under me?

I can rule the empire, but I cannot manage myself.

Peter the Great

Ask yourself: What are my strengths? How do I work? What is my contribution?