The Multimedia Technology Health Communication SBIR/STTR Program

How to Improve Your Funding Potential

Tips to Achieve the 12 Basic Steps

• BE PROACTIVE: find out what it takes to transfer your creative ideas into material form. Learn the process.
• BEGIN WITH AN END IN MIND: understand your objective and be able to define clearly the steps needed to achieve that objective before applying for your grant. Stay focused and on track.
• PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST: organization and management are disciplines that create reality out of vision.
• THINK WIN-WIN: Persist in activities that will benefit all involved.
• SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, then to BE UNDERSTOOD: understand your consumer and use the appropriate approaches for creating solutions that your consumer will understand.
• SYNERGIZE: Include your end-user in product development; collaboration leads to a win-win situation.
• SHARPEN THE SAW: Take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially so that you can create effectively.

Adapted from: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic by Stephen R. Covey