November 9, 2022
For the first time ever I’ve had to start using a roller on my calf. I’ve watched people use them over the years and always thought – not me, I won’t need it. Now I do, now it’s something I’m using to stop a muscle from seizing up. Just because you didn’t use it before, or didn’t know about it before, isn’t a reason for you not to give it a shot now.
November 8, 2022
In Managing Tasks, it was all about your work but what about when you are having to manage other people’s work? What do you do when you are responsible for someone else’s work but you’re not the one that is doing it? What do you then? We all lay out our work differently but when I’m responsible for what someone else is delivering the requirements are still the same; Do I understand what you have written? Or do I have to come to you for clarification on every single task? Are there pieces left in your head and not written down
November 7, 2022
When we want something from another person, we generally don’t know what steps are involved to get it done. And that’s mainly why we are asking them to do that task for us – because we don’t know everything that goes into doing it right. As the person who is then implementing that task, the challenge then becomes, how do you keep them updated on your work if they don’t know what has to be done to make it work? There are one of two options in front of you; “Get it done and let me know the problems you
November 4, 2022
Everyone answers yes to this. Yes, I want to learn something new. Yes, I can learn something new. Yes, I am a sponge, feed me with all this newfound knowledge. But then when it’s time to put into practice what has been learned, to go through the uncomfortable steps to unlearn the bad and get better, we stop, we grind to a halt and we decide that we really don’t want to learn, to change, but that it’s much easier to simply say we do. The question to ask yourself isn’t if you can learn something new, it’s if you’re
November 3, 2022
No one gets it right the first time, but within them is the ability to get there. The question then is not whether this person will get there. The question is whether you are willing to invest everything you can in them, the individual, your team, to see them get there. Will you grow the potential or leave it to someone else?
