Opportunity Scanning
education and trainingprofessional workproject environments
What Is Opportunity Scanning?
Apply opportunity scanning deliberately to the situations in which that capability is relevant, with attention to the decisions, behaviours, or outputs that opportunity scanning directly affects.
Why Does Opportunity Scanning Matter?
Opportunity Scanning matters when the outcome depends on doing more than the broad task itself; the specific capability described by opportunity scanning can determine how accurately, clearly, efficiently, or appropriately the work is carried out.
What Does It Look Like?
Someone applying opportunity scanning may:
- •uses opportunity scanning deliberately rather than treating it as an automatic habit
- •checks the part of the result most affected by opportunity scanning
- •adjusts the approach when the situation changes what opportunity scanning requires
How to Develop Opportunity Scanning
You can develop it by:
- •choose a real task where opportunity scanning is clearly involved and define the result you want to improve
- •observe how a more experienced person handles opportunity scanning and record the specific decisions they make
- •review one completed task and identify where stronger opportunity scanning would have changed the result
Where Can Opportunity Scanning Be Useful?
Opportunity Scanning can be useful in areas such as:
education and trainingprofessional workproject environments
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