December 30, 2016
Something to think about on this last blog of 2017. Where do you want to go next year? How will you get there? What goals do you hope to achieve? Who do you need to help you get there? When will you achieve these goals? Answer the questions, write them down, print them out, put them over your workstation, your reading room, your bed, your nightstand, your car, etc, etc. But make them happen and don’t forget when times get tough, where it is you want to go.
December 29, 2016
I had never seen one of these before up until a few weeks ago. Think about if you received an auto-reply from a colleague that read somewhat like this… “I can’t respond to your email right now, I’m working on this great project right now and will try to get back to you later.” What’s the project? How great is it? What do I need to do, to be a part of it? How can I help by keeping emails like mine out of your way? Very simply this conveys interest, excitement, passion and of course, curiosity. I haven’t used
December 28, 2016
I think what helps any of us grow, in any field, is seeing the different approaches that people take in totally different fields to solve similar problems. Whether it be a function of leadership, team development, personal growth where there is alignment between the fields of interest. Even more interesting is to learn how people approach problems I have never seen, heard or even thought of and seek to understand how they approached this problem. With this in mind, I went to my LinkedIn feed and noticed that the bulk of people I interact with are all in some way
December 27, 2016
Have you ever felt stuck in where you are? Not sure where to go or what to do next? Not confident that you can even take that first step? Are you feeling more confined merely by reading the first few lines in this post? You shouldn’t. Being stuck is the best place to be – it’s in those moments of being stuck that we force ourselves to take a step back and look at where we are, where we want to go and formulate plans on how we are going to get there. When we are zipping here, there and
December 26, 2016
If you are not there to make the presentation that you have slaved over for months, will people still recognize and appreciate that it was done by you and not the stand in? How much does it matter if they don’t? The people who don’t know you will assume (their mistake) that it is the presenter who has done everything. The people who do you know you, will see your touch, your fingerprints, your passion all over it and they will know without a doubt whose work they are looking at but is being presented by someone else. The question then becomes
