New demands to face?

What are your new challenges?

• Can you break your new challenges down into bite-size chunks and create a specific plan to address each issue?
• Do you feel safer, less anxious, taking a lot on yourself?
• This is a common reaction but self-defeating in the end. Not only do you fail to spread ownership (and your anxiety), you risk putting an unsustainable amount of pressure on yourself.
• What strategic partnerships can you form to spread ownership?
• Whose help can you enlist for a share of the glory?
• Do you need to sharpen some of your skills?
  • Delegation?
  • Time management?
  • Relationship building?
• How can you be sure that everyone's expectations of you are realistic without sounding pessimistic or defeatist?
• An upbeat tone can be achieved by being enthusiastic about what you can do (by when) and specifying clearly what needs to happen to enable you to achieve the more challenging requirements. This is more positive than just complaining about the difficulties you see.
• Better to present solutions even if that means more investment is required - people, money, time.
• Can you buy yourself some extra time on some demands?
• This might be hard to do if you simply focus on these demands, but easier if you involve your boss or other key stakeholders in agreeing what your most critical priorities should be. It's easier to gain time on x, y and z if others agree that a, b and c are more important.
• This is a problem solving approach - beats complaining.