Happy New Year! As we step into 2025, it's time to bring our "A" game to make the impact we want this year! In this blog post, we will share key strategies to help you and your team leverage strengths, refocus, and contribute in ways that make the most difference.
Leverage Your Strengths: Understanding and utilizing your strengths is crucial for success! We like to start the year with a reflection. Through reflection, we notice what we enjoy doing most, which tends to be where our strengths lie! Our goal is to start to identify where we excel and find ways to incorporate those skills into our daily work. Encourage your team members to do the same. Gallup research shows, when everyone plays to their strengths, productivity and job satisfaction soar: “When employees know and use their strengths, they are more engaged (nearly six times more), have higher employee performance, and are much less likely to leave their company.”
Make the Greatest Impact: Every person has a unique role to play on our team! We know from the first strategy, leveraging our strengths, that when we contribute in ways that align with our strengths, it boosts morale. It also ensures that each person's efforts have the most significant impact. Here are two ways to do that:
Focus on tasks and projects that drive the most value for the team and organization. Aligning with the organization and department’s goals for the year is very helpful in determining what these tasks and projects should be.
Prioritize high-impact activities and delegate or eliminate low-impact ones. The Eisenhower Method is a helpful tool for prioritization, specifically what to delegate or delete. Watch the video below!
Concentrating on what truly matters maximizes our team's effectiveness and helps us achieve outstanding results. There’s no better time to do that than at the start of a new year, which leads us to our third strategy.
Refocus as a Team: After a busy year, stepping back and refocusing is essential. One way to do this is to set aside time in the first team meetings of the year to discuss goals and priorities and make adjustments. At Kane Learning, we often meet with clients’ leadership teams in the first quarter of the year to help them set goals for themselves and their teams! But we don’t want to set goals alone! Research shows that setting goals together positively affects performance and motivation – positively impacting effort, persistence, and commitment. When we work with our teams to align on goals and are clear on how we will achieve those goals, we increase accountability, ensure everyone is on the same page, and begin rowing in the same direction!
By leveraging strengths, contributing meaningfully (or making the most impact), and refocusing as a team, we can bring our “A” game to make 2025 a year of intentional achievement and lasting impact!
If you’d like to read our previous blog post, where we dive even more into bringing your “A” game, check it out here.
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