5 ChatGPT Prompts For Leaders To Reflect On The Year – Forbes
Self-awareness and reflection is an activity just as essential as your other year-end business … [+]
As you’re wrapping up for the close of the year’s business with Christmas and 2024 just around the corner, you’re likely engaged in a flurry of activity, from tying up loose strings on projects, to end of year reporting, to tax returns, last-minute deadlines, and final appraisals and performance reviews with your team members.
But before you type up your final email and draft that out-of-office automatic reply, there yet remains a task which is just as critical as business-closing:
Self-reflection.
We often get so caught up in rushing to prepare our business operations, spend, reporting, and personal lives for the holidays that we don’t take adequate time as leaders and managers to step back, pause, and reflect on our professional journeys over the year—what went well, what didn’t work out so well, and the lessons learned. The insights we glean from these journeys enable us to improve our leadership skills and be more effective in our roles in the new year, instead of repeating the same mistakes.
Sometimes, making use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can help accelerate this learning process—because, let’s be honest, a great deal happens in one year and it can be difficult to take account and thoroughly analyze the many occurrences at work.
Try these five prompts to get your wheels turning:
Chart your leadership journey by keeping a weekly or monthly record of your progress; this will … [+]
As a bonus exercise, so that you can repeat this activity next year, keep an online or hardcopy journal of self-reflection. Towards the end of each week or month, make a list of three highlights (or more) and three challenges. By keeping track of your small wins and big wins, while also noting times when things didn’t work out as planned, you’ll have a bank of data to feed to ChatGPT with which to analyze your professional progress. This will help you maintain a growth mindset and become a more resilient and effective leader.
