The Key Areas
Determine your key areas using the following procedure:
- Are you a manager/supervisor?
Possible Key areas would include: Staff. Staff/organisation. Staff relations/effectiveness; e.g., Sales force, sales force relations/effectiveness, etc. - Do you have financial responsibilities?
Possible Key areas would include: Finance. Finance/administration. Costs. Profitability. Budget/follow-up. Prices (e.g. production costs, sales prices, etc.) - Do you have administrative responsibilities?
Possible Key areas would include: Administration. Administrative tasks/responsibilities/routines; e.g. personnel administration, salaries, maintenance, buildings, machinery, administrative systems, procedures, etc. - Are you responsible for projects/major one-off tasks?
Possible Key areas include: projects, customer tasks, development projects, stakeholder tasks, sales campaigns, marketing projects, and employee tasks such as selection and onboarding. - Do you have internal communication and coordination responsibilities?
Possible Key areas would include: Internal relations. Internal communication/co-ordination. Relations: manager/colleagues; e.g. board, management team, branches/divisions/subsidiary/parent company/panels/committees. - Do I have external communication and coordination responsibilities?
External relations, external communication, e.g. customers, suppliers, business associations, dealers, authorities, organisations, institutions, panels, committees. - Are you responsible for development, improvements, and new methods?
Possible Key areas would include: product development, technical development, method development, market development, organisational development, and systems development. - Are you responsible for long-range planning?
Possible Key areas would include: Strategic planning, future/development/ideas. Strategies. - Do you have any special functions or fields of interest? Locations/offices?
Possible Key areas would include: Special fields of interest, position of trust, directorships, politics, associations, interest groups, training, freelance work, etc. - Is professional development particularly important for you?
Possible Key areas would include: professional updating, state relevant type.
Reserve at least 1 or 2 key areas for "Personal Development", Family and friends", Personal finances", "Home", "Hobbies" or other key areas related to your private life.
The last Key Area in Practical Manager is predefined and locked for innovative ideas. Make a habit of writing your good ideas immediately into this Key Area, and make sure that way you can forget them. You will be always able to reflect and remind yourself again about each idea you get. When you feel it's appropriate time, move them to a corresponding Key Area to start working on them.
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