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204 Chapter Reminders—How to Take Action

Chapter 2: Taking Action for Knowing and Being Yourself

• Compare your strengths and weaknesses to those needed in
the executive suite and create your own development plan
• Use a 360-degree feedback assessment at work and/or
systematically solicit feedback to assess your knowledge,
skills, and abilities as perceived by others
• Identify the behaviors and attributes that matter
• Determine who can really provide meaningful feedback
• Solicit feedback in a variety of ways
• Develop an action plan and review it with mentors

• Update Your Belief Systems
• Reassess what is right/wrong, good/bad, not working for
you at this point in your life
• Determine how your beliefs are impacting your
self-image
• Reframe your beliefs

• Assess Your True Values
• Decide what success looks like to you personally and
professionally
• Identify the core values that mean the most to you
• Set priorities
• Live your values consistently in your “whole” life

• Create Your Personal Vision
• Determine what you truly want—now and in the future
• Ask for what you want and need!
• Stretch your thinking from short term to long term

• Tools: Create Your Lifeline, Update Your Belief System,
Assess Your Values, Create Your Personal Vision