Let me start sharing my insights from the leadership summit from NLI that I attended back in July.
Insight 1: power of 3.
Research has shown that people can retain information much better when it comes in chunks of 3 statements, not more. That means that for example when we develop team values, strategy pillars, sets of goals or priorities and we would like people to remember that and be able to recall and relate we need to prioritize all ideas and select top 3 main points.
So, it has to be “essential, not exhaustive”.
That is a tricky task as we usually want to make sure we mention everything important, but it dilutes the focus, and the outcome becomes worse. So, if you want to expand inside any of the statements it also has to be not more than 3 sub-categories. And combined it will be 9 statements, grouped in 3s. Then there is a better chance that people will actually do something with those statements, and it will not stay just on paper as a nice summary.
So, this gives us ability to create very focused message: one goal/priority = one intention => one focus area. Not more than 3 of those. And when doing that we need to make sure that people can answer simple question: why do I care? And also fit it with everything else.
What do you think? Have you seen different priority settings and what was your experience with this?
Note: yes, jetlag is actually not so bad and helps to get some things done that were postponed otherwise :)
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