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Introduction for this Week's Assignment

Stop Blaming to Reclaim Your Power

Workshop Slides

Reclaim Power

Hello BVisionRYs! 

Thank you for attending and participating in our first workshop (Stop Blaming to Reclaim Your Power); I enjoyed our learning time together! 

During this workshop we covered the following: 

  1. The meaning of blaming, audit it, and find what you can control 
  2. Move your communication to assertiveness & measurable. 
  3. Own your problem statement 
  4. Set the 10-Leaders chain challenge 

Now it is time for you to put what you learned into practice. Because remember, if you do not put what you learned in practice, your tools will rust!

The purpose of this Assignment: 

The goal of this exercise is to help you move from reactive frustration to intentional problem-solving.

When you face obstacles at work, your natural default might be to identify "blames", factors like bad management, poor tools, or a lack of time. While these frustrations are valid, they are usually "unactionable" because they place the solution entirely outside of your control.

Your Objectives:

  1. Break the "Blame Default": By writing down your "blames," you will become more aware of when you are attributing challenges to external actors or unchangeable circumstances.
  2. Objectify Your Experience: You are going to take a feeling (e.g., "We are way too slow") and turn it into a hard metric (e.g., "It currently takes us 14 days to get one signature"). This removes the emotion and replaces it with data you can actually use.
  3. Define a "Solve-able" Problem: You will build a clear, measurable problem statement. This ensures you aren't just "working harder," but are specifically dismantling the exact mechanism that is holding you back.

Your Desired Outcome: By the end of this assignment, you will have a high-definition view of your primary challenge. You will stop seeing obstacles as "annoyances" and start seeing them as inefficient systems that you have the power to re-engineer.

The process for completing this task:

To transform your initial needs assessment from a list of external frustrations into a precise, measurable problem statement that identifies a systemic root cause rather than a symptom.

Instructions:

Step 1: Extract the Narrative

Go back to your submitted Needs Assessment and locate your responses to these two specific questions:

  1. What major objective or professional milestone are you currently struggling to achieve?
  2. What is the single biggest skill gap or performance obstacle preventing your team from reaching its full potential?

Step 2: The "Blame Highlight"

Copy your original text into the "Original Text" section below. Using a highlighter (or bold text), identify every instance where you attributed a struggle to:

  • External People: "Management doesn't understand," "The client keeps changing their mind."
  • External Tools/Systems: "The legacy code is a mess," "The software is too slow."
  • Lack of Resources: "We don't have enough time/budget/people."

Step 3: Make it Measurable

For every "blame" identified, attach a metric. If you say "The process is slow," define what "slow" means.

  • Example: Instead of "Deployment takes too long," use "Deployment takes 4 hours and requires 3 manual approvals."

Step 4: Craft your Assertive Problem Statement

Rewrite your struggle into a single, clear sentence using the formula. 

The work you will submit: 

Your submission for this second assignment will be in a Google Sheet, where you will add three tabs.

Instructions:

Column One- Your original text (response).  

Column Two- Your blame audit.

Column Three- What you have ZERO control over.

Column Four- What you have 100% control over.

Column Five- Vague and ambiguous words.

Column Six- Shift them to assertive and measurable. 

Column Seven- Write your new problem statement. 

Final Review: Take a moment to review all fields to ensure they are complete. The sheet saves automatically.

Submit Your Work:

  • Click the "Share" button in the top right corner of your master Google Sheet.
  • Change the sharing setting from "Restricted" to "Anyone with the link."
  • Set the access to "Editor."
  • Click "Copy link" and paste it into the Lighthouse submission portal.

Looking forward to supporting you on your learning journey!