From the course: Strategic Focus for Managers
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Shifting focus
- Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus. This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects. Remember that your team's time and energy is a fixed asset. Shifting focus doesn't mean adding new things to focus on. Unless you add resources, you have to make trade-offs on where people spend their time. This enables you to complete more projects faster draft a plan and communicate it. That plan should include what's causing us to shift focus, what's our desired outcome once we get through the change, what's our strategy for navigating the change, what old work will we stop doing to free up resources, what new work will we be focusing on? When I worked at a financial services firm we had a major event that caused us to shift focus. The regulators came in and took a look at our processes. They didn't like what they saw. They said we needed to rectify a whole list of issues. We put together and communicated a plan. What was causing us…
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