Striking the right balance is the fourth thing to work on in getting and staying on the front foot.

The balance between:

– time working and time not working (no-one can stay on the front foot with an unrealistic workload)

– reviewing and thinking as well as planning and doing (it’s critical to break out of ‘firefighting’ mode).

The After Action Review process asks four useful questions for assessing progress against your 5-30-90 day plans:

– what was supposed to happen?
– what has actually happened?
– why was it different?
– what can we learn from this?

From this you can also think through what else it will take to keep on the front foot in getting your ideas into action.

So, there you go – four simple methods to bring our Front Foot framework to life.

Tags: balance, organisation, working life