At the finish
It’s coming to the end of the project, the month, the year. Good things happened along the way, bad things too, things we can learn…
At the end of a thing, like a meeting or a project or a journey or a month, it’s tempting to put it behind and turn to a new page. The last thing is over, it was what it was, time now to pick our eyes up and look for what’s next along the track.
Not so fast.
First, celebrate at the finish line, win or lose. Next, take a moment to work out what happened, squeeze the learning, and agree how to deal with the new day that’s coming.
In short, review.
Five minutes at the end of the meeting: we agreed this, the actions are these, we’ll communicate like this.
End of the project: we got this right, this wrong, next time we’ll do better here and here.
End of the month: our scorecard, wins and losses, what we’ll do different.
Skippy strategy: Learn from yesterday (and celebrate).
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