For Your Improvement

Dealing with Ambiguity

Skilled: Effectively cope with change,  can switch gear comfortably

Remedies

Embrace Incrementalism: shooting in the dark with as informed a decision as you can make at the time. people who are good at this are incrementalists. they make series of smaller decisions, get instant feedback and correct the course, get a little more data, move forward a little more, until the bigger problem is under control instead working with mindset that to get everything right at the first time

Avoid being Perfectionist: avoid doing everthing, setting the priority items and prioritize often

Problem Defintion: bucket and categorize the unknown such as follow up items requires further clarity, risks, assumption, constraints, get as firm a handle as possible using organziing buckets.

Career Ambition

Unskilled - Unsure what (s)he wants out of career, Not understand how careers advance, A poor marketer do not know how to get noticed, Stuck in comfort zone, don't want to make sacrifice

Remedy: Act like a career advisor to teach how to explore at the career, breakout the comfort zone and try to - start up things, fix things, inovate, make plans, come under budget, and getting those to be known.

People in comfort zone? tell them life long employment is dead, equip yourself to increase employability.

Confronting Direct Reports

Unskilled - Not comfortable delivering negative messages to direct reports

Setting the standard and process 

Start with the discussion of "we" have a performance issue to talk about and fix

Criticize with a solution and plan

Handling the pushback, emphasis areas where both agreed and tell them we will figure out the rest tomorrow. allow them time to reflect.

Say good back, emphsis the strengh they have in anyway you can, suggest there will be a better job match

Cultivate Creativity 

Unskilled - Comfortable with the past, use old solution to address new challenges, prefered tried and true, doesnt connect ideas from outside own area

Remedy;

• Allow relax state of mind to incubate new thoughts 
• Learn to try and fail fast
• Having people from all backgrounds to brainstorm