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Suggest You - Look Back, Look Forward and Learn
If transport industry is a game of soccer, there are sure signs that the goal posts are shifting*. (Note: for better viewing experience with appropriate colour highlights, please refer to original article, url attached)Goalpost #1: Previous goal post (1996): LTA White PaperWe only started MRT operations in 1987. We cannot grow a comprehensive network over the next few years. However we will build up the network incrementally, properly sized to
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable
What is the aspect of the role where CIOs can make the biggest impact? What can we do to make that impact? In Change Management, you have to identify a compelling need to change. Do you have an organization that will support you? Do you have the skills? Do you have the relationships? What's your mission?The door between the Chief Information Officer CIO and CFO offices is opening wider, and the executives are building a path to regular interaction that allows the Info
There was a time, not that long ago that a trip across the United States. would take a couple of days by train. While this was much faster than previously available transportation, it is still quite leisurely compared to the 4-5 hour flight that we can now take.
In those seemingly slower times we surmise that we would have had time to stop and think. Today we argue our time is limited and too valuable to stop and just think. There is too much to do. It is precisely because of all of the tasks, stimulus and diversions that it is important that we stop.
Just stop and think.
Maybe you cant or dont want to do this every day. Even so, there are a variety of times in our professional and personal lives when we will especially benefit from looking at the past to help us prepare to be more successful in the future.
When?
As leaders and professionals, the times might include:
At the end of a project
Before the start of a new project
After a team or organizational milestone has been reached
At the start of a New Year
When a team is formed
When team membership has changed
As individuals the times for doing this include:
At the start of a new job
At the time of a major life change
After reaching a major goal or milestone (turning 30, finishing your college degree, etc.)
At the start of a New Year
At the start of a new calendar quarter
All of these are excellent times to count our lessons, capitalize on our experience and gauge our wisdom. In other words these are times to capture what we have learned so that we can capitalize on that learning as we move into our future.
How?
Take the time to both look back and look forward from your current situation. One of the best ways to do that is with questions.
Before beginning, find a quiet comfortable place to sit down with a pad of paper or your journal. This is not a task best suited for typing at your computer. There is something about physically writing your responses to these questions that is valuable.
Remember that what you write is for your eyes only which means it may have doodles, drawings, arrows, phrases, and incomplete sentences whatever. This is not meant to be literature; rather it is a place and a process for you to capture your thoughts so that you can use those insights.
Here then are 12 questions that you can use to help you with this important task.
What is the most valuable thing I learned?
Who did I learn the most from?
What was the most fun?
What did I accomplish?
What would I have done differently (or would I do differently, knowing what I know now)?
What are the three most significant events?
How did I most contribute to those around me?
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable.
In a traditional organization, the role of purchasing is to simply purchase and the means was to negotiate and to have a confrontational attitude with the vendors. This led to the concept of buying power of organizations into the management literature. For instance, large organizations squeezed every cent from their suppliers by using their buying clout.Purchasing solutions are based on vendor, geographic and technology specific. Whatever be the solutions, the goals are
Just stop and think.
Maybe you cant or dont want to do this every day. Even so, there are a variety of times in our professional and personal lives when we will especially benefit from looking at the past to help us prepare to be more successful in the future.
When?
As leaders and professionals, the times might include:
At the end of a project
Before the start of a new project
After a team or organizational milestone has been reached
At the start of a New Year
When a team is formed
When team membership has changed
As individuals the times for doing this include:
At the start of a new job
At the time of a major life change
After reaching a major goal or milestone (turning 30, finishing your college degree, etc.)
At the start of a New Year
At the start of a new calendar quarter
All of these are excellent times to count our lessons, capitalize on our experience and gauge our wisdom. In other words these are times to capture what we have learned so that we can capitalize on that learning as we move into our future.
How?
Take the time to both look back and look forward from your current situation. One of the best ways to do that is with questions.
Before beginning, find a quiet comfortable place to sit down with a pad of paper or your journal. This is not a task best suited for typing at your computer. There is something about physically writing your responses to these questions that is valuable.
Remember that what you write is for your eyes only which means it may have doodles, drawings, arrows, phrases, and incomplete sentences whatever. This is not meant to be literature; rather it is a place and a process for you to capture your thoughts so that you can use those insights.
Here then are 12 questions that you can use to help you with this important task.
What is the most valuable thing I learned?
Who did I learn the most from?
What was the most fun?
What did I accomplish?
What would I have done differently (or would I do differently, knowing what I know now)?
What are the three most significant events?
How did I most contribute to those around me?
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable
Industrial devices such as ultrasound cleaners use high frequency sound waves to create bubbles within a bath, which expand and collapse rapidly. In industrial terms, this is generally known as cavitation technique that creates a scrubbing action on the immersed parts for loosening and removal of dirt, scale, and other impurities.These devices are used to clean the surfaces of components coming out of a production line that may contain impurities such as grease, soil, oil
At the start of a New Year
At the start of a new calendar quarter
All of these are excellent times to count our lessons, capitalize on our experience and gauge our wisdom. In other words these are times to capture what we have learned so that we can capitalize on that learning as we move into our future.
How?
Take the time to both look back and look forward from your current situation. One of the best ways to do that is with questions.
Before beginning, find a quiet comfortable place to sit down with a pad of paper or your journal. This is not a task best suited for typing at your computer. There is something about physically writing your responses to these questions that is valuable.
Remember that what you write is for your eyes only which means it may have doodles, drawings, arrows, phrases, and incomplete sentences whatever. This is not meant to be literature; rather it is a place and a process for you to capture your thoughts so that you can use those insights.
Here then are 12 questions that you can use to help you with this important task.
What is the most valuable thing I learned?
Who did I learn the most from?
What was the most fun?
What did I accomplish?
What would I have done differently (or would I do differently, knowing what I know now)?
What are the three most significant events?
How did I most contribute to those around me?
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable
Do you have any idea what role color plays in your marketing efforts? And if so, do you know what message your marketing efforts are conveying with the colors you use? Let me tell you that the colors you use in your marketing efforts your brochures, business cards, letterhead, signage, office interiors, and more play a very important role in motivating people. The colors speak loudly and clearly, so I believe it is in our best interest to learn what the colors convey in
Remember that what you write is for your eyes only which means it may have doodles, drawings, arrows, phrases, and incomplete sentences whatever. This is not meant to be literature; rather it is a place and a process for you to capture your thoughts so that you can use those insights.
Here then are 12 questions that you can use to help you with this important task.
What is the most valuable thing I learned?
Who did I learn the most from?
What was the most fun?
What did I accomplish?
What would I have done differently (or would I do differently, knowing what I know now)?
What are the three most significant events?
How did I most contribute to those around me?
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable
When was the last time you communicated with your customers?Communicating with your customers keeps your business top of mind with them. And, it doesn't have to cost you a thing! Communicating with your customers can be as simple as sending an email individually to each customer or as a newsletter sent to all your customers. And there's no stamps to buy or lick! But, whatever the form, be sure there is value in the communication - information about a new product o
What do I feel best about?
What am I grateful for?
How will these lessons benefit me or change my approach in the future?
Who do I most want to learn from now?
What are my goals?
Dont get overwhelmed by the number or nature of these questions. They are guidelines. You may not be able to complete all of your writing in one sitting that is ok too. What is important is that you take advantage of the opportunity to learn from your experience.
The process can be used with a project or work team, board or others. The questions can be slightly modified and the process now likely involves flipchart paper rather than a journal, but the reasons for doing it are just as compelling and the results just as valuable.
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