From the course: The Six Skills of Proactive Professionals

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Skill three: Future focus

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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