Prioritise Your Development

Do you want to improve your leadership skills? Don't know where to start?

The 'importance-effort' matrix can help you prioritise what leadership capabilities you should focus on developing first and what can wait. This will help you identify areas of development that will have the greatest impact for your effectiveness as a leader.

Course Detail

Participants: Individual
Minutes: 15-25

Outcomes

More productivity, focus, and confidence!

If we only pick areas of development that we find very difficult and boring, we’re unlikely to stick with the development work.

Taking ‘effort’ into consideration when prioritising helps pick areas of development you’ll actually stick with. Addressing these areas first can give you some quick wins and build confidence in your ability to develop ourselves as a leader. The Prioritise Your Development activity will help you to meet your career goals and become a more confident leader at work.

Get Started

Step 1

Using the Clore Social capabilities framework below, think about the skills that you would like to develop through leadership training. These could include communicating more effectively with your team, taking on more responsibility, supporting teammates better, and more.

Empowering Enabler

Empowers others to take on new challenges and training. Acts as a role model to others, pursues continuous self-development and cultivates an environment where others can excel

Focused Strategist

Continuously seeks organisational improvement for the people they serve. Delivers on outcomes, resourceful and strategic, considers wider systems and context.

Passionate Advocate

Cause passionate, committed to the mission and people they serve. Strong moral compass, wide civic responsibility, engages in debate and activities. Looks within and beyond sector to find solutions for social change.

Generous Collaborator

Establishes and grows collaborative partnerships and relationships. Generously shares information, assets and time and builds trust through seeking and giving feedback.

Courageous Changemaker

Courageous and drives change through being a responsible risk taker. Develops innovative solutions with and through others by having foresight and asking why

Inspirational Communicator

Relates to others with authenticity. Has a clear expression of mission and values and is able to modify approach and re-frame based on feedback

Step 2

Set a timer for 15 minutes, and plot these skills on the 'importance-effort' matrix below. This is a quick exercise, so try not to overthink it!

Something you'll find 'low effort' might be:

Something you feel internally motivated to do
Something that just feels fun
Something that solves more than one problem

Something you’ll find 'high effort' might be:

Something that doesn’t come naturally to you
Something that you don't enjoy
Something that is difficult to begin

Step 3

Take a step back and look at your Matrix. What feels of low importance and hard? You can ignore these things for now.

Instead, look at the top left corner of the matrix at the things that are really important but feel easy. This is where you should start.

Step 4

Take action! Identify 1-2 skills from that category you can focus on during the next month. Write those here, and they will be emailed back to you.

Step 5

Once you have started developing the skills from those categories, have a look at the top right corner of your matrix at the skills that are high value and high effort. These are also important to your leadership development in the long-run. Try to break these features into smaller, more bite-sized skills, and thinking about a plan to develop these as well.

One way to do this is through our guided programmes.

Did you enjoy Prioritising Your Development?

Remember to mention us on Twitter @CloreSocial or LinkedIn @CloreSocialLeadership sharing your experience!

Based on your interaction with this exercise, you may want to check out the Discover programme. Click here to find out more!

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