There are many ways to pass on a positive legacy. This piece looks at how you can use this approach when interviewing a person for a role or helping them to set goals.
Imagine that you want to follow this approach. Here is one way you can introduce the idea to a person.
“There are many ways to set goals. One approach I would like you to explore is to look into the future and do an exercise called Positive Legacy.
“This invites you to describe three things you want to have achieved or to have passed on by the time you move on from the role. We can then explore how to achieve these things. Here is the exercise.”
Different people write different things when doing this exercise. The HR Director of a famous company said that they wanted:
To have helped to build a strengths based company that continued to achieve ongoing success;
To have built a professional HR team that continues to implement the company’s strengths based people strategies and enables it to achieve ongoing success;
To have delivered a pioneering corporate responsibility programme that has applied the company’s strengths to partner with a social enterprise and achieve ongoing success.
Here is the exercise you can invite a person to do. If appropriate, you can then explore with them how they can aim to deliver this positive legacy.
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