MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Abilities

Financial Management

Review your last month’s team expenses and identify one area you could streamline or optimize this week.

Set a calendar reminder to review your team’s cost reports or budget lines every Monday morning.

Create a simple spreadsheet to track three team costs and update it daily for one week.

Categorize five recent team expenses as fixed or flexible—see where adjustments are possible.

List your top three recurring team costs and brainstorm one possible improvement for each.

Review your last vendor invoice or team expense report—check for errors or unnecessary charges.

Project Management

Make a list of all active projects your team is handling—note owners, deadlines, and next steps.

Clarify one unclear responsibility or deadline with your team today—ask a short, direct question.

Create a checklist for your next team project, breaking it into 3–5 small, sequenced steps.

Block 30 minutes this week to update the status of a team project in your tracking tool.

Send a one-sentence project status update to your team—practice brief, clear communication.

Choose one overdue team task and move it forward by working on it for 15 minutes today.

Change Management

List one upcoming change in your team’s priorities and write down in one sentence how it could impact performance.

Identify one routine team practice you could adjust this week to adapt more easily to shifting priorities.

Ask a team member how they’re feeling about a recent change—listen carefully without offering fixes.

Choose one small team change you’ve been avoiding and take the first 15-minute step to move it forward.

Review the last change your team went through and write down what helped them adapt successfully.

Review your team’s last announcement—note one unclear message and suggest a fix.

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