Hurricane Sally Packs a Punch A week ago I was following the path of Hurricane Sally on the local news. The reporting was fairly consistent between the various news sources: Sally would be a rain event. Since the hurricane had slowed to a crawl in the Gulf of Mexico, it had started to lose strength …
Recently, I started a Harvard extension course called Leaders of Learning, taught by Richard Elmore, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Annual goals are a bit different than a New Year’s Resolution. I’m not talking the “I’m not going to do x this year” or whatever you might have stated. Goals give you a target, an endpoint, toward making your dreams come true. I’ve been using Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner as both a goal tracker, …
4. Harmony (Relationship Building) You look for consensus. You don’t enjoy conflict; rather, you seek areas of agreement. my personal CliftonStrengths report This is not the same as placating with empty promises. Instead, I try to think practically about the task at hand and look for specialists in the tops to learn what I need …
I keep my work stuff at work, and separate from everything else. Overall I have set hours where I’m available for my workday and in many cases I’m using our own system for managing my day-to-day work life. Management has given each team member the flexibility to use what works for him/her for task management. …
Mornings. The family rushes around eating breakfast, getting ready for the school or workday, and barely a word is spoken. Everyone goes their separate ways for the bulk of the day only to reappear at the dinner table promptly at 6:30. Conversations float over what happened over the course of the day, activities that are …
Taking about Customer Success is all the rage with SaaS solutions as companies figure out it is better to keep customers instead of relying on backfilling churn with new sales. For companies that have been around for a while, customer success likely wasn’t mapped out in the early years when the core team was focused …
When it comes to executing, work isn’t the only place this can be of value. Recently I attended a board meeting for my son’s lacrosse team. The league itself is made of up 8 teams of boys and girls ranging from Kindergarten through high school. It takes a pretty substantial effort to manage a Fall …
My assignment was simple. Read the book Loving What Is by Byron Katie. But this simple assignment, requested by my husband who found enlightenment from his reading of this book, wasn’t so simple. Maybe I just wasn’t ready? But really, I needed to be. Or at least, open to a new narrative. Worrying about everybody …
