The Deciding, Doing And Delivering Approach

by mike on August 22nd in Articles From The Positive Encourager's Book

There are many ways to do fine work. One approach is for a person to focus on the specific activity where they are good at deciding, doing and delivering. Let’s explore where you may take these steps.

Deciding

Great workers are good at decision making in the activities where they excel. They may demonstrate this when working as a counsellor, medic, crisis manager, leader or in another professional role.

Looking at your own work, what may be specific activity where you are good at decision making? What are the kinds of decisions you are good at making? What is the process you go through when making decisions?

Imagine that you are focusing on a specific activity where you score highly on decision making. It can then be time to move on to the next stage.

Doing

Great workers are good at the doing. They maintain high professional standards and produce high quality work. Such people may do this in either of the following ways.

They may do the good work themselves;

They may enable other people to do good work.

Great workers aim to do work that is effective, excellent and maybe sometimes extraordinary. When leading teams, they encourage others to follow these principles and perform superb work.

Imagine that you are focusing on a specific activity where you score highly on decision making and doing. It can then be time to move on to the next stage.

Delivering

Great workers deliver the goods. They aim to apply their strengths, follow their chosen strategies and do superb work. They do their best to find solutions to challenges and achieve the desired picture of success.

Looking at the specific activity where you may excel, when have you delivered the goods? What did you do right then? How can you follow these principles to deliver successfully in the future?

Looking ahead, how can you continue to do superb work in this activity? How can you continue to improve and develop? What may happen as a result of taking these steps?

If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to complete the following sentences.