What’s a core content task?
It’s the translation of the title sentence in your job description, which summarizes your function’s main responsibility, in action.
Which is not so easily done. Especially when you are a professional dealing with lots of data and information. Making it difficult to exactly pinpoint your core content task; your core operational data and information handling steps.
Carrying out your core content actions consistently, accounts for the amount and quality of the results you generate and the developments you make.
Why is it important to carry out your core content task consistently? Turning it into a habit, a routine? Because routines are do-able successes. Every time again. Ever screwed up a routine? Like brushing your teeth, reading new mails in your inbox? Routines take the least amount of energy. No intensive thinking, new skills or unfamiliar equipment required succeeding.
Ambitious professionals thrive when using core operational data and information routines.
Routines for that part of their work where their knowledge is required, they have access to and only they decide upon for release.
Professionals entering a new job, recently made promotion or beginning a new project, with long to-do-lists and more than enough on their plate, benefit the fastest from their core content task. Now and in the future as core content routines create space for next levels and new opportunities.
If you want to leap successfully, you’ll best uncover your core content task and start conducting it consistently.
The next three questions will help you uncover yours.
| Question | Answer | |
| Content | 1. What data and information do you receive? | (List all you receive, wanted and unwanted.) |
| Access | 2. What data and information you receive, do you have read, write & modify access rights to? | |
| Decision | 3. What data and information you receive and have read, write & modify access rights to, do you decide upon for release to customers or colleagues next in service? |
Now you have your core operational data and information in the most right column, last row of the table. High five!
And how you practically manage your core operational data and information; that’s your core content routine. The steps to open, review, decide and act upon your core operational data and information.
Conducting your core content task consistently, no matter what happens, assures success from the inside out.
In case you would like help to translate your core content task into a (work)daily routine, to verify your core content task or to start being up to date on your core content soon: