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TS/SA: Students Need the Life Skill of Caring and Speaking Up

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:54:39 -1000

TS/SA: Students Need the Life Skill of Caring and Speaking Up

All Things Workplace: One More Time: What Do People Want At Work?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:01 -1000

All Things Workplace: One More Time: What Do People Want At Work?:

By Steve Roesler:

Every employee survey I’ve seen over the past 30 years shows the same results as this, conducted in 2007 by Towers Perrin. The survey population was 90,000 employees, worldwide.

What do Employees Want?

The #1 element on a global level was an employee’s belief that senior management was interested in his or her well-being.

Imagine.

Employee’s relate their success on the job to feeling cared for and about. Not money, not flex time, but feeling that people above them care about their well-being.

[…]

We’ve Done The Work For You

It’s only a bit more involved and systematic than I’ve described. After reviewing volumes of research in performance, productivity, effectiveness, and change, we’ve boiled down the findings into five categories of what employees say they want in order to “be their best”:

1. Employees want to have a “good fit” in the organization, one that matches their skills and interests at a given time.

2. Employees want to be clear about their job: what is really expected and how it will be measured.

3. Employees want managers and organizations who support what they’re doing and get roadblocks out of the way.

4. Employees want to feel valued for who they are and what they bring that is unique.

5. Employees want to be part of something that inspires them. There are lots of ways to earn money. But over the long-term, they (we) want to be part of something that lifts us up because there is something personally meaningful about it.

So, how do you develop sustained performance and satisfaction?

Scratch the survey. Sit down and talk with your people about these five things and how each one is going. Then listen. Then, figure out together how to move things along the great curve of life.

Let’s cut to the chase: Do The Daily 5 Minutes!

Listen: Be a Better Manager/Colleague | The blog of RTSL.eu - Development with SAS®

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:31:53 -1000

Listen: Be a Better Manager/Colleague | The blog of RTSL.eu - Development with SAS®:

Very cool…

You can practice your listening skills on a day-to-day basis. I’ve seen success with the adoption of Rosa Say’s Daily 5 Minutes (D5M) working pattern. It’s aimed at managers but is equally effective when used amongst peers.

Now, discover your passion | another step forward

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:51:43 -1000

Now, discover your passion | another step forward:

Another Ruzuku challenge, this one based on Dave Pollard’s Finding the Sweet Spot.

Already have 3 challenges going there, and hesitate to take on another, but it will only last for 5 days, and wow… Dave Pollard…

Rands In Repose: The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:35:56 -1000

Rands In Repose: The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools:

Love this. Love it, love it love it.

(and if you didn’t already know, the Daily 5 Minutes is my chainsaw).

My stuck isn’t talking, and things get weird. Also there is a trapeze.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:02:22 -1000

My stuck isn’t talking, and things get weird. Also there is a trapeze.:

By Havi Brooks at FluentSelf.com and likely to be one of her classics.

I also notice she calls herself a “habits educator” now. Cool.

TS/SA: Guilt-Free Self-Leadership~ 12 Possibilities

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:12:16 -1000

TS/SA: Guilt-Free Self-Leadership~ 12 Possibilities:

Had a conversation yesterday with a work team who had tackled the Sweet Closure initiative with us in October. Not only did they tackle it, they nailed it.

So yesterday they were asking, “Now what?” wondering if there was specific goal-setting I recommended for them through November and December […] How’s that for a great problem to have?

I feel no guilt whatsoever about shedding professional goals early so that I can have the time for tackling some personal ones – neither should you.

Grab onto some guilt-free self-leadership…

Lose Touch with Your Inner Whining Artist | Lateral Action

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:18:31 -1000

Lose Touch with Your Inner Whining Artist | Lateral Action:

As tweeted… this article is yet another example of what an articulate and wise creative Mark McGuinness is.

Guest Insights: The discipline of not being all things to all people - Kevin Maney

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:00 -1000

Guest Insights: The discipline of not being all things to all people - Kevin Maney:

Kevin Maney is the author of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don’t, so this article is a bit that explains his book’s preposition but it does give food for thought on what he calls the trade off between fidelity (the quality of an experience) and convenience (the ease of getting it.

Best Books of 2009: Business & Investing Top 10 | Amazon.com

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:32:11 -1000

Best Books of 2009: Business & Investing Top 10 | Amazon.com

Employee Turnover: Seven Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:03:00 -1000

Employee Turnover: Seven Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs:

All 7 are valid points, but here’s the money quote (and you’ve heard it before):

Good people don’t leave good companies, they leave poor managers.

Each of the author’s 7 points starts with “Management…” and I get irked when I read sweeping statements about “management” as this big, faceless oppressor - even managers will cop out, feeling the problem is someone else, their boss, or within the system.

When you read this article, ask yourself if you are doing any of these preventable reasons… as the saying goes, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones (or cower as the glass shards fall around them)

The Beautifully Giving 5 Minute Conversation | Teaching with Aloha

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:28:25 -1000

The Beautifully Giving 5 Minute Conversation | Teaching with Aloha:

When a new conversation really means…

“For the next 5 minutes I am here to do absolutely nothing but listen to you, and respond to you if you would like me to. Within the next 5 minutes, there will be nothing in this world more important than my listening to whatever you might have on your mind: I want to hear from you, and I want to know more about what you are thinking about, wondering about, and feeling.”

It’s a beautiful thing.

TS: Challenge Your Most Brilliant Self ~ Burn Your Boats

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:05:04 -1000

TS: Challenge Your Most Brilliant Self ~ Burn Your Boats:

Will you challenge your most brilliant self?

“I’ve never forgotten the story of the famed explorer Hernando Cortés. He landed on the shores of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1519. Wanted his army to conquer the land for Spain. Faced an uphill battle: an aggressive enemy, brutal disease and scarce resources. As they marched inland to do battle, Cortés ordered one of his lieutenants back to the beach with a single instruction: ‘Burn our boats.’ My kind of guy.”

“Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best — and most brilliant — self. How fully would you show up each day — at work and in life — if retreat just wasn’t an option?”

—Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide
(which I highly recommend: One of the most dog-eared books I own)

10 Reasons Why You’re Probably Going to Fail | TonyMorganLive.com

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:24:33 -1000

10 Reasons Why You’re Probably Going to Fail | TonyMorganLive.com:

Here’s the deal. I don’t think this list is just about personal failure. This is about organizational failure (your ministry, your church plant, etc.). This is about business failure (your start up, your turnaround effort, etc.). This is about relational failure (your marriage, your dating relationship, etc.).

more thoughts on “evil plans” | Gapingvoid

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:06:22 -1000

more thoughts on “evil plans” | Gapingvoid:

A great example of the power of that MWA kākou concept we always talk about, language of intention [key5]

Pumpkin Dogs (via Rosa Say) Ash says just one of the three...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -1000

Pumpkin Dogs (via Rosa Say)

Ash says just one of the three didn’t really mind being in the pumpkin sitting for the picture: The other two just barely behaved before tipping it over and scrambling out. Can you tell which one?

TS: 5 Minutes/ 3 Values/ 9 MWA Questions Redux

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:07:11 -1000

TS: 5 Minutes/ 3 Values/ 9 MWA Questions Redux:

There is one more Daily 5 Minutes article which has been on www.ManagingwithAloha.com for quite some time and needs updating, and I wanted to bring it here to Talking Story, weaving a few of our recent conversations into the learning. This one does borrow from the values-based workplace coaching that my business is all about, and those who frequent our Ho‘ohana Publishing sister site, Joyful Jubilant Learning will also smile knowingly at the connection to Learning My 9 Boxes.

JJL: Within our Learner’s November Toolbox~ WRITING

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:39:52 -1000

JJL: Within our Learner’s November Toolbox~ WRITING:

During November, we reach into our learner’s toolbox to grasp a well-worn tool that feels familiar and sure in our hands.

It is one which can make us feel strong and sure, and more than ready to shape and create. Other times we pause, and wonder if we are ready, for it makes us feel weak in the knees and unsure of our footing. Yet we still grab onto it as the life raft we know it will be for us until our feet are grounded once more.

That tool is one we call Writing to Learn.

"The sad reality is that well over 90% of our society doesn’t have that passion for the work..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:00:51 -1000

“The sad reality is that well over 90% of our society doesn’t have that passion for the work they do (I made that percentage up, it is probably higher). Forget passion, the majority of people probably don’t even like what they do for a living. It’s important to remember this. You and I have passion. If people are reading industry Blogs on their own time, listening to Podcasts and trying to engage in these channels - even when the company that employs them questions on the online world, there has to be some kind of passion. It’s much easier to just go home, plop yourself on the couch, turn on the tube (not the YouTube), crack open a beer and forget the day that just passed while not focusing on the days that will follow.”

- Loving What You Do | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image

He continues:

Those people - and they may even be your superior at work - will always try to bring you down.
That’s a lie. They’re not trying to bring you down. They’re trying to get you to feel as miserable as they feel, so that they can commiserate with you.

10 New Business Books Worth Checking Out | Six Pixels of Separation

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:58:58 -1000

10 New Business Books Worth Checking Out | Six Pixels of Separation:

Mitch Joel makes his recommendations.