In this episode, you'll hear about:
- The Three Types of Clarity Every Leader Needs: Strategic Clarity (what work moves the needle), Responsibility Clarity (who owns what), and Progress Clarity (how we're tracking)—and why Strategic Clarity is the foundation for everything else.
- Claire's Personal Burnout Story: How working at a job she loved without knowing how she was measured led to exhaustion, and the specific steps she took to create her own clarity when her manager couldn't provide it.
- The Three Questions Framework: Powerful questions to ask your manager in a clarity conversation—What are my 3 most important outcomes? How will you know I've been successful? What leading indicators should I track?
- Leading Indicators That Create Progress: How to identify the weekly activities and milestones that predict success and give you that feeling of moving forward, even before final outcomes are achieved.
- Cascading Clarity to Your Team: Why having clarity conversations with each of your direct reports transforms team performance, shortens meetings, reduces emails, and builds true autonomy.
Take Action: Quick Start - AI Prompt for Clarity:
Copy and paste this into ChatGPT or Claude:
"I'm a [YOUR JOB TITLE] at a [SIZE/TYPE OF ORGANIZATION]. Here's my job description: [PASTE YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION]. Here are my organization's strategic objectives for this year: [LIST THEM].
Based on this information, help me identify:
- The 3 most important outcomes I should be driving over the next 90 days
- For each outcome, suggest 2-3 specific metrics that would indicate success
- For each outcome, suggest 2-3 leading indicators I could track weekly to know I'm on track. Please be specific and practical."
Resources Mentioned:
- Creating Clarity Guide: Download the complete framework, which contains conversation templates, week-by-week implementation plans, and progress tracking tools.
- EVOLVE Leadership Program: Claire's new leadership development program is launching soon, with Clarity as the foundational first module. Downloading the Creating Clarity guide and you'll be notified.
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