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Applied a new top coat to www.ManagingwithAloha.com this past...

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:14:30 -1000

Applied a new top coat to www.ManagingwithAloha.com this past weekend.

Selfless Creativity | Success Begins Today

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:14:56 -1000

Selfless Creativity | Success Begins Today

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: “I get a lot of email” is your problem, not mine.

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: “I get a lot of email” is your problem, not mine.

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: How to Stop Micromanaging: Part Two

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:31:54 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: How to Stop Micromanaging: Part Two:

Preface: This is the second of a two-part article. If you have not yet read it, start your reading today with: How to Stop Micromanaging, Part One.

Part One defines micromanagement and its root cause, and it outlines the benefits to be gained when you work to replace the micromanagement habit with a better one. Today’s posting covers what your better habits can include via a very systematic, problem-solving approach.

Lipstick on the Management Pig « StickyFigure

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:33:00 -1000

Lipstick on the Management Pig « StickyFigure: Steve Woodruff proposes “the only way to get rid of an energy-sapping, conscience-afflicting cognitive dissonance. I think the marketplace would evolve faster and better if more employees left poorly-run companies so that they run aground and better companies take their place. What do you think? How do you deal with cognitive dissonance in the workplace?”

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Two Gifts: Values and Conversation

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:28:14 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Two Gifts: Values and Conversation:

I’d like to clear something up if I may, and then I’d like to share a story there has been a lot of discussion about lately – to my delight and gratitude.

Today’s posting will be about two very special gifts: Our values, and our conversations.

Management Craft: Rosa Says to Stop Micromanaging - Amen!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:27:41 -1000

Management Craft: Rosa Says to Stop Micromanaging - Amen!: Mahalo Lisa, and as usual, you have great insights to add and share!

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Webwide talking story talks back: Your feedback these last 30 days

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:26:44 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Webwide talking story talks back: Your feedback these last 30 days:

Over the last 30 days, this is the way I have sized up what seems to resonate with you, out of all the writing that I distribute on the web via Ho‘ohana Publishing.

In the Top Ten:
(with no. 1 the most popular)

The Biggest Sin in Business Today (TS Link)
The 2 C’s of Technology and Early Adoption (TS Link)
3 Ways Managers Create Energetic Workplaces (TS Link)
How to Stop Micromanaging: Part One (TS Link)
Your Alaka‘i Language of Leadership (TS Link)
Competing Strengths in The Battle of the Learner and Over-Achiever (JJL Link)
Alaka‘i Managers Coach, and they Facilitate (TS Link)
Kamehameha’s Legacy of Values (TS Link)
Do you Teach? (TS Link for the launch announcement of Teaching with Aloha)
Great Mantra: Make it Easy, Make it Hard (TS Link)

Lōkahi Teams Require Lōkahi People | Ugluu

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:19:52 -1000

Lōkahi Teams Require Lōkahi People | Ugluu: I have a featured article up on Ugluu today about teamwork.

Learning to Listen with The Daily Five Minutes

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:15:51 -1000

Learning to Listen with The Daily Five Minutes:

We are now twelve days into July, and listening has come up a great deal in the month’s learning theme: Communicating as Learners Do.

We had fun with Phil’s post, Listen More to Communicate Better, and it is likely what first comes to mind, however do a search in that box top right of the blog page, and you will discover that “listening” has come up in several posts and conversations.

I am not surprised. Learning to listen better than we do might be the single best communication lesson a lifelong learner could choose to focus on. I’ve discovered that is certainly true in the workplace. It’s true at home with our families too.

Today, for my turn on our JJL calendar, I’d like to share the story of The Daily 5 Minutes™. This is a little long as posts go, but I am hoping that you will have time for it, being it is Sunday. I will do my best to keep it as short story versus long sermon :-)

It started nineteen years ago…

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: The Talking Story (occasional) Sunday Paper

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:25:36 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: The Talking Story (occasional) Sunday Paper

Rosa Say (5 of 5) | another step forward

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:08 -1000

Rosa Say (5 of 5) | another step forward

Rosa Say (4 of 5) | another step forward

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:33:26 -1000

Rosa Say (4 of 5) | another step forward

Rosa Say (3 of 5) | another step forward

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:33:01 -1000

Rosa Say (3 of 5) | another step forward

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: How to Stop Micromanaging: Part One

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:26:18 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: How to Stop Micromanaging: Part One:

Micromanaging. Auwe!

The word gives us that same feeling we get when someone purposely rakes their fingernails across a chalkboard.

I doubt anyone micromanages intentionally. No one likes to think they are being accused of doing it, and no one wants to be on the receiving end of a micro-manager’s reach. No one does it on purpose unless they are truly evil (and you cannot believe that if you believe in Aloha at all) or just don’t care if they do (and none of those people bother to read Say “Alaka‘i” in the first place, so that possibility is irrelevant to this discussion).

Yet micromanagement continues to happen; why?

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Your Alaka‘i Language of Leadership

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:16:53 -1000

Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching: Your Alaka‘i Language of Leadership:

I read this at Terry Starbucker’s blog recently:

Lesson 7: Understand that words alone don’t make the leader - proper presentation, attitude, inflection, cadence and structure are musts to inspire to action. —Terry Starbucker, My 10 Favorite Leadership Lessons

Reading it, I cheered and did my hula dance of joy at Terry’s why: “to inspire to action.” Leaders create energy.

I also got to thinking about the assumptions that all of you might have about what I refer to as the ‘language of leadership,’ a phrase I am apt to use quite often in my speaking, my coaching, and my writing here at the blog. An awareness of our Alaka‘i language of leadership is a great talk story for us to have…

Rosa Say (2 of 5) | another step forward

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:15:33 -1000

Rosa Say (2 of 5) | another step forward

Rosa Say (1 of 5) | another step forward

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:12 -1000

Rosa Say (1 of 5) | another step forward: Interviewed by Rick Cecil for Ruzuku.com

Simple, beautiful: reusable T-Shirt Bag

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:57:27 -1000

Simple, beautiful: reusable T-Shirt Bag: (via zenhabits)

E Komo Mai ~ Come visit!

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:20:36 -1000

E Komo Mai ~ Come visit!:

We know there are different ways you visit with us these days, but today, E komo mai as we say in Hawai‘i, come inside.

Joyful Jubilant Learning has a brand new look, and we would love to know how you like it!