Dr. E outlines a readiness assessment framework, focusing on clarifying motivation, cultivating a resilient mindset, and creating maintenance practices to sustain progress toward strategic or personal initiatives.
Hello Dr. E here hope you are doing well today is Thursday and in Twin Cities we have a snowstorm. So I think we got about 16-18 inches over the past day and a half so I'm looking forward to channel climbing this afternoon as it starts to slow down. So anyway I'm chatting today about readiness assessment and what are you ready for is totally up to you totally subjective. Are you looking to assess your readiness for a strategic plan, a new initiative , a diversity equity and inclusion project, a personal assessment of some sort, whatever that assessment is tied to, how you are looking at your readiness is absolutely important.
One of the first things that I think you have to really be conscious of and cognizant of and pay attention to is your motivation. Why are you doing what you're doing? If you cannot answer that question concretely and constructively then probably more than likely you aren't ready whether it's a capacity thing, whether it's a resource thing, whether it's a competency thing, your motivation has to be directly connected to whether or not something is going to be successful or not successful. So please just be mindful of your motivation behind why you're doing something.
If you can answer the why, chances are everything else will fall in line both from a personal standpoint, from a team standpoint, from an organizational standpoint as well as a combination of the three. The second thing I think or the second aspect has to be your mindset. Are you in the right space mentally as you approach whatever it is you're trying to do as you build whatever it is you're trying to build as you go about assessing anything and everything remotely related to what you're trying to accomplish?
If your mindset isn't in the proper place, chances are you're going to fail. What is the proper mindset? I think that depends on the person, that depends on the organization, that depends on the team. I personally believe a mindset has to include a perseverance. I believe a mindset has to include or be along the lines of regardless of what happens, we are not stopping. We are not changing, we are not shifting, we are going to move forward and we 're going to accomplish and overcome whatever barriers are placed in front of us.
Our mindset has to be one that is strong, has to be one that is visible and more importantly has to be one where folks can buy into that because the third piece and the third component is how are you going to maintain all of that? How are you going to make sure regardless of what happens on your path, on your journey, you are going to maintain the motivation and the mindset that are critical to achieving and accomplishing whatever it is that you want to do? If you don't have a maintenance plan, if you don't have a way or a method or a process or a practice that allows you to recharge, revamp, revitalize, do all of those things in terms of recalibrating, chances are you're going to fail at some point.
You need to remember those three things, proper motivation, a really definitive mindset and a way to maintain both of those things as you hopefully move forward and accomplish all of the things that you're hoping to do. So, that's my readiness assessment pillars. If you practice and try those three things, I think you actually will be well on your way and I say this all the time to accomplishing all of the things that you're wanting and hoping to accomplish personally, organizationally and hopefully anything else in between.
Motivation, mindset, maintenance. Have a great day and I'll see you on the other side of the snowstorm.
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