From the course: The Six Skills of Proactive Professionals
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Skill three: Future focus
From the course: The Six Skills of Proactive Professionals
Skill three: Future focus
- [Instructor] And then the third one is future focus. So this is just about keeping one eye on what's coming up. So while you are paying attention in the moment to what's going on with your situational awareness you're also thinking about what's coming next. So what's coming up tomorrow, next week, next month even next quarter and next year. Thinking about not only the events and the deadlines and those types of things that you need to be managing backwards to figure out what you need to do today to be successful with those things, but also thinking about your own future and what you want to be building for yourself. So if you're keeping your eye on the future and thinking next year I'd really like to get a promotion, well great. So that means that this year there's things that you should be doing to set yourself up for that. Perhaps getting some more professional development and perhaps speaking with your manager and…
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Prepare for the future today2m 4s
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Six skills produce 50 times effectiveness3m
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Skill one: Big picture understanding3m 26s
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Skill two: Situational awareness2m 29s
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Skill three: Future focus1m 15s
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Skill four: Strategic foresight1m 14s
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Skill five: Intentional action1m 32s
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Skill six: Self-evaluation41s
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Be proactive in your relationships3m 37s
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Ask yourself, “What’s next?”4m 51s
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