Focus Question: What’s been your greatest learning?

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And here we are. In the final week of the year. As you look back at 2020, what stands out, or maybe the better question is, what’s not been memorable, or record setting.

What a year! I hope that you have enjoyed our journey together and want to leave you with some reflection questions:
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The one thing I want to remember about this process is:

• I want to acknowledge _______ about myself:
• I am proud of:
• I have gotten clear on:
• I am going to celebrate my accomplishments by:
• Going forward, 1-3 themes which are important to me are:
• As I step into the new year I will…
• Take a look at the word cloud which captures some of our core themes for the year.

 
Enjoy the conversation and focus!

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Review your notes from the year, highlighting for yourself key themes, learning and insights.
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Celebrate. Love. And Keep on Learning.

Thanks for joining us for this 52 week series. We hope that you will continue to stay tuned to the Remote Pathways podcast. Please take a minute to rate and review the podcast in your favorite podcast player!

Jennifer Britton 

Focus Question: What’s important to note about your work right now?

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This year we’ve taken a look at a wide variety of core topics for remote work – from delegation, to team development, feedback, to learning.

This week, and next, you will have an opportunity to take stock of where you have grown and shifted this year.

Growth doesn’t always happen on a straight path, and there may be many twists and turns along the way. This week take a look at the many milestones you have moved through. What are they?

Questions to consider:

• What were the major milestones throughout your year?
• What were your growth areas?
• What were the plateaus?
• What stands out for you?

Another key element of the year has been your vision. Have you gone back to review your vision?  If not, do that now. Notice:

• What was your vision at the start of the year?
• What major milestones did you meet or exceed?
• How did your vision shift?
• Even with a shift, how did it come to fruition?

You are invited to spend time creating your vision for the new year. Check it out.

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Review your notes from the year, highlighting for yourself key themes, learning and accomplishment.

You may want to check out Jennifer’s recent year end video at her YouTube channel.

All the best,
Jennifer

Focus Question: What’s important about innovation for you right now?

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The world is a different place than it was at the start of the year, the decade, and even 90 days ago. This has implications for our planning and how we work.

Innovation has always been an important topic for teams, business owners and leaders in the virtual space, and today it's even more important.

What can we be doing to foster innovation for ourselves and others? In this month's post I thought it would be interesting to focus in on several different tools we can use to foster new ways of thinking.

There are several great resources for coaches to explore when looking to boost their toolkit around coaching for innovation including Coaching for Innovation: Tools and Techniques for Encouraging New Ideas in the Workplace – Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele. Check out their related website.

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Innovation - Exercise #12 of The 40 Ways to Work with Visual Cards available at the Potentials Realized site.

Time needed: 10 - 30 minutes

Instructions:
Get group members to think about what they need to innovate around.
With this in mind, have them select a card which represents a new perspective on the situation. Alternatively, you could also randomly hand people a card.  If you are doing this virtually, provide the group with a series of photos they can choose from or show one.

Ask each participant to take a deep look at the photo (individually) and reflect on: In the context of innovation, what does this image invoke for you? What’s significant? If you were to apply this image to what you are innovating around, what would be possible?
After each person has done this, get each person to lay out their cards (or virtually share which one they selected). Depending on group size, either have people pair up, or have everyone look at each card. Give a few minutes to reflect on what innovation “Spark” is created by each card. Have people write this down.

In pairs, or in the small group give each person the opportunity to speak about what they are realizing about what’s next for them, or what’s new for them, around innovation based on the photos. If you are working with a team, you may simply have each team member select a photo of what innovation represents or means to them and have them share it.

Collectively ask the team to make up their own story or synthesis of all the cards.
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Questions around coaching for innovation:

1. What’s another way of looking at that?
2. What’s important about making a change?
3. What does innovation mean for us?
4. Who do we need to collaborate with for innovation?
5. What mindsets do we need to shift in order to innovate more effectively?
6. What will help us be successful?

Wish you the best,
​Jennifer