I’m learning to draw. It’s hard, I’m not very good at it, it is taking a ton of effort. I have a goal of trying to do 30 minutes per day to hit that as an achievement.  What I draw in the space of that 30 minutes is totally up to me.  But when you are not very good at something and you are literally starting at Ground Zero – it can take a significant…

So what do you think? Is this what you want? Am I on the right track? Tough questions when via email, chat, voice or more importantly standing right in front of you asking you face-to-face. If you are in the business of constantly being asked for feedback by your peers or direct reports than you should check out this piece written by Seth Godin on giving feedback.  It provides a great set of guidelines and…

Whether your in a position of authority or leadership or simply the gal whose been assigned to get a task done where whatever little bit of authority you have could be gone tomorrow when you move onto the next project the question is always the same – should I ask or should I tell? One could argue that the end “task completion” result will always be higher when you tell someone what to do, after all…

Many airlines now push for us to use our phone for check-in and use as little paper as possible.  Even hotel and car bookings can all be done electronically – give them your email address – get your booking information, time and date and pickup, how long you are staying, is there a pool in the hotel, etc, etc, etc. All this push to do everything electronically.   Sometimes I am not the person booking…