#5 Self-Management — Where Your Intentions Become Actions
"Yeah, we've done that already."
That's what I hear every time I include a self-management module in a workshop series. And I get it. Self-management sounds basic. Everyone thinks they know how to manage their time.
But here's what I keep seeing: people who are very good at managing others and have real problems managing themselves. They can build a project plan for their team in an hour but haven't looked at their own priorities in months.
In a recent workshop, a team lead told me she had been timeboxing everything meticulously — except the one strategic project that would actually move her career forward. She'd been protecting time for everyone else's priorities and leaving none for her own. It took a 10-minute exercise with the Eisenhower matrix and honest feedback from her peers to see it. She could have read about Eisenhower a hundred times. But she needed someone to point at her board and say: "Where are you on this?"
That's Quadrant ④ on the Digital Leader Canvas — Self-Mana...
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