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Defining your resource needs

Defining your resource needs

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Defining your resource needs

- There's no bones about it, high performing teams have a lot of work to get done. And you, as their leader, need to make sure you have the right resources and understand what types of resources you need to achieve those tasks. Now, a lot of times we start with here are the resources I have, therefore, here are the tasks I'm going to go out and pursue. That's completely backwards. The tasks needs to define the resources that you need. So start with the list of initiatives and then prioritize. You won't be able to get all of that work done at the same time. So you have to think through, if this is my vision of what I'm trying to achieve, and here's the strategy for how I'm going to achieve that vision, here's the sequence of initiatives that I need to pursue. There may be dependencies. Initiative one has to get done before initiative two. By laying out that clear prioritization, you're going to be able to build a resource plan that will make sense. Take that prioritization list and…

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