Making Time for Strategy: How to be Less Busy and More Successful by Richard Medcalf

Author:Richard Medcalf
Format: epub

C – Context

Briefly, what are the salient facts? What chain of events has led us to this moment? You don’t want a rambling monologue, you want the equivalent of 3–5 bullet points outlining the key facts.

A – Analysis

How have we assessed the issues? What options have we analysed? Here you are checking your team member has done the necessary thinking before coming to you.

R – Recommendations

What are 2–3 good ways forward, and of these which do you prefer? The advantage of having a couple of ‘good ways forward’ is that it avoids all-or-nothing thinking, encourages creativity and lateral thinking, and gives you some flexibility in choosing between options that your team have developed (instead of inventing a new option, which they won’t have the same level of buy-in to). And the advantage of asking for their preferred recommendation is that it forces them to take a stance, rather than take the easy route out and defer to you.

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