How do you feel when the schedule you have put together doesn’t go to plan? Not a great feeling, but being agile is so valuable these days and having the mental resilience to take ownership of it is underestimated.
Planning all the activities we want to do this summer with the children has of course fallen to me being the non-working parent, but also a natural planner has shown me that even the weather interferes with a plan.
Rather than see the weather as a risk or an issue to add a mitigation plan to and log it in my register, I take ownership of it as it doesn’t matter anyway. Activities in our plan can be moved around, fortunate of that, as the end goal will be the same anyway that the girls got the experiences they need during the holidays before school term starts again.
Having an outcomes focused mindset in this creative space is hard, it’s very intangible but so far there are no complaints over the things we have been up to and when and how. Holding a plan with you also means knowing your target audience, and the kids themselves don’t mind a bit of agile working until you make them join in the boring stuff like grocery shopping, again!
It just reminds me how important the creative and exploration stage is when setting up a plan, reviewing it with your team and stacking up milestones. Do you add this time consciously with your team or do you feel like you go backwards each time a change needs to be made? Let me know!
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