Through my many coachings and management experiences, I have come to develop what I call the Unique Strategic Contribution to help leaders focus on the impact they want to create. In fact, through my experiences, I have come to realize that many leaders experience the same struggle, that is to say that they find it difficult to step out of their expert role to focus on their leadership role and “play at the right level”, as I like to say, and therefore focus on their Unique Strategic Contribution (USC). You will find exercices to define your USC in my book Empower your Team.
And you, do you ever focus on certain tasks and tell yourself that you probably shouldn’t be doing at your level? Generally, if you’re not doing what you should, you’ll feel it. And that’s why I’ve developed this concept, to define a term that allows us to focus our intention and attention in the right place.
In fact, I had initially developed this concept for leaders, but know that it applies to everyone, regardless of our level in the organization, because we can all determine our USC by asking ourselves where we should be, what we should be focusing our attention on and at what level.