WEBVTT 00:02.800 --> 00:07.000 Hello and congratulations. You've now completed 00:07.500 --> 00:11.000 the Visible Leadership course and you're ready to cement 00:11.500 --> 00:14.880 your knowledge. Through practice, you can learn to be more visible, 00:16.079 --> 00:19.040 like trying to acquire any new skill you need to practice. 00:19.680 --> 00:23.680 I'm going to share three ways to help you build your 00:24.180 --> 00:26.560 foundations of becoming a visible leader. 00:28.680 --> 00:31.760 So let's start. The first is be 00:32.260 --> 00:36.040 your own advocate. Each day, take a few minutes 00:36.540 --> 00:39.480 at the end of the day, or whatever time works best for you to reflect 00:40.360 --> 00:43.480 what worked well today. How did you add value? 00:44.360 --> 00:48.040 How have you contributed? How have you helped somebody else 00:48.520 --> 00:52.400 or the organisation get closer to you on delivering 00:52.900 --> 00:56.930 your objective? Answering these questions each 00:57.430 --> 01:01.050 day goes into your Achievements file. What's an Achievements file, you may ask. 01:01.450 --> 01:05.010 Well, that's a notebook, a digital document 01:05.510 --> 01:10.250 or a physical file where you can collate anything 01:10.750 --> 01:14.050 that you want to keep that showcases and supports 01:14.550 --> 01:17.210 your achievements. The key here is consistency. 01:17.930 --> 01:21.920 So when you're a knowledge worker and working on projects 01:22.420 --> 01:26.600 or ongoing initiatives, the time just goes. It can go pretty quickly and 01:26.760 --> 01:30.480 you can kind of forget what happened each day and where you did start 01:30.980 --> 01:34.800 to add value. And so what we're trying to do with an Achievements file is 01:35.300 --> 01:39.240 collect those moments. We live life in our moments, and so we're trying to collate 01:39.740 --> 01:43.560 more and more of those. And why we do that is we want 01:44.060 --> 01:47.920 to start bringing all those things together so we can draw some insights and 01:48.150 --> 01:51.870 in terms of trends and things that you do exceptionally well at and 01:52.370 --> 01:56.510 things that you need to work on. And so this is where an Achievements file 01:57.010 --> 02:00.910 comes in. And then how we use that is 02:01.410 --> 02:05.190 in our next tip in terms of turning that into weekly analysis. 02:05.670 --> 02:09.830 So the weekly analysis takes two forms. The first is just 02:10.330 --> 02:12.950 you looking at what's happened over the past week. 02:14.480 --> 02:17.120 You can use your daily Achievements file to help you here. 02:17.760 --> 02:21.960 But what we're looking for are key achievements 02:22.460 --> 02:26.840 and the trends, which I mentioned, and looking then to draw insights 02:27.340 --> 02:31.240 in terms of what's happened. Are these insights helping or 02:31.740 --> 02:35.200 hindering your future? So do you need to course correct anything and 02:35.700 --> 02:38.880 are there things that you want to keep doing or want to be known for? 02:39.190 --> 02:42.830 So we're looking for those things. And the second is 02:43.330 --> 02:47.030 then what to do with this knowledge. So you learned 02:47.350 --> 02:51.470 a little about the Friday Flashpoints report and that's where 02:51.970 --> 02:55.670 those insights are shared. So here you're trying to 02:56.150 --> 03:00.230 parcel up how you added value, what you've 03:00.730 --> 03:04.270 learned and how you've contributed to your own learning and 03:04.770 --> 03:07.990 that of your team and your colleagues, your stakeholders and the organization at large. 03:08.570 --> 03:12.050 So all of these things are worthy of sharing. And the 03:12.550 --> 03:16.650 way that you do that is either through some kind of report or through 03:16.970 --> 03:20.330 a verbal update or showcase, or just having those things ready 03:20.730 --> 03:24.330 so that when there's an opportunity, you can share them. But ideally, 03:24.730 --> 03:27.810 you're creating that consistency in reporting so 03:28.310 --> 03:31.290 that people come to see you're an ongoing contributor. 03:31.930 --> 03:36.330 So you can title this update anything that reflects 03:36.980 --> 03:40.220 the value that you're providing and the 03:40.720 --> 03:45.460 learning journey that you're on. And then the third thing is 03:45.940 --> 03:48.980 in terms of increasing your organizational awareness, 03:50.740 --> 03:54.500 so how well you understand your organization's strategy, 03:54.900 --> 03:58.220 values, vision and objectives is really 03:58.720 --> 04:01.940 key. So it's a good idea to make sure that you're across 04:02.490 --> 04:05.890 these things so that your work is in 04:06.390 --> 04:08.570 alignment with these properties. 04:09.930 --> 04:13.450 So having a core attribute with which you can align 04:14.890 --> 04:18.570 every day makes sense. It actually makes it easier for you 04:18.890 --> 04:22.650 to see that you're on track with what you're doing and see that you're contributing. 04:23.610 --> 04:27.050 The questions on the screen are thoughts data 04:27.450 --> 04:31.010 for assessing your organisational awareness. And there's something that you should take 04:31.510 --> 04:35.690 the time to do so, because in doing so, you'll understand how aligned you are 04:36.250 --> 04:40.170 in terms of your everyday priorities and the organization's objectives. 04:41.610 --> 04:46.290 So what we're looking to understand is what 04:46.790 --> 04:49.690 is your organization strategy? You should be able to find this in. You can actually 04:50.190 --> 04:53.530 find this usually in the public domain, but you're looking, 04:54.030 --> 04:57.620 you know, your website, your intranet, your leadership should 04:58.120 --> 05:01.340 be able to tell you this. If you can't find it, what's your company vision? 05:01.660 --> 05:05.020 So, you know, what is it that your company is really trying to do? 05:07.740 --> 05:11.740 What are the organizational values? So how 05:12.240 --> 05:15.740 do you need to be aligned in terms of your way of thinking and your 05:16.240 --> 05:19.420 behaving and your behaviour? 05:20.220 --> 05:24.060 What are the organization's objectives? So these are really important in 05:24.560 --> 05:28.140 terms of being able to cascade down from the highest levels 05:28.640 --> 05:32.740 to the work that you do, so you can understand you're working in alignment and 05:32.820 --> 05:36.340 then in doing so, working through how does your group, 05:36.500 --> 05:40.020 your team, your department align to these objectives 05:40.980 --> 05:44.940 and then how is success measured? So you want to understand as 05:45.440 --> 05:49.780 well, what does the organization value? How can you also include 05:50.280 --> 05:53.880 those measures in what you do? And then you want to 05:54.380 --> 05:57.960 understand how can you personally contribute to delivery on the organisation 05:58.460 --> 06:01.840 strategy? So knowing all of those is 06:02.340 --> 06:05.840 going to give you a good understanding of, first, how much 06:06.340 --> 06:10.160 you understand about your organisation, and second, it gives you the prompts to 06:10.660 --> 06:14.200 actually have a look at the work you're doing and just check that alignment and 06:14.700 --> 06:18.730 make some changes if required. Second, so this brings us 06:19.230 --> 06:22.370 to the end of the Visible Leadership course. So thank you 06:22.870 --> 06:26.810 for playing along at home. I encourage you to practice the activities 06:27.610 --> 06:31.050 to build your visible leadership and to take every 06:31.550 --> 06:34.410 opportunity to grow yourself as a visible leader. 06:35.370 --> 06:38.170 Good luck and I look forward to seeing you more.