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Taking an active role in managing your role and priorities

Taking an active role in managing your role and priorities

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Taking an active role in managing your role and priorities

- In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment with different reporting lines and multiple teams and stakeholders, global leaders need to own and actively manage their own goals, role, and priorities. Waiting for someone else to do this for you rarely works and always slows things down. As global leaders, we may be working in a matrix with more than one boss, with the solid or dotted line. We're almost certainly working on multiple teams and engaging with several stakeholders to get things done. Think about the number of people this means you need to collaborate with. If you work on four teams with an average of six people in each, have two bosses, and work with a dozen stakeholders, then you have to engage with 38 people regularly to do your job. Take a moment to work out your reality. How many people do you need to engage with? Each of these individuals will have a partial understanding of your role and…

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