I was on a mini vacation last week. We went to Savannah and Jekyll Island, Georgia. One thing that my husband and I enjoy doing is touring historic homes and there are plenty to choose from, especially in Savannah. I loved the homes we saw and the interesting information provided by the […]
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Today is the first official day of summer and I have procrastinated to the point that now I’m planning to do summer cleaning instead of spring cleaning. In addition to clearing out some physical clutter, I need to do a bit of mental housekeeping. Out with the old and in with the new!
If […]
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Have you ever wondered how Friday the 13th got such as bad reputation? I did, so I did some research and found some interesting tidbits at howstuffworks.com. The first thing I learned is that there is a name for the fear of Friday the 13th. And, it’s quite a mouthful - paraskevidekatriaphobia. […]
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For the past 6 months I’ve been planning to start sending out a monthly newsletter. I’ve done my research and know what to do, but I haven’t done anything beyond that. I have lots of reasons (AKA excuses) for why I haven’t done anything yet, but none of them outweigh the reasons for […]
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I subscribe to a great newsletter entitled Crucial Skills from the same folks who wrote Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations and Influencer (see recommended books on my Resources page). In this month’s newsletter, Kerry Patterson writes eloquently about the lessons that life experience teaches us. He reminds us that when we hit a rough […]
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I finished reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, a few months ago and I loved it. Now, I’m downloading the weekly webcasts from Oprah.com and watching them with great interest. I see why Oprah is so excited about this “web event.” The content of each webcast is engaging and has been […]
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If you are in a leadership position within your organization, it is quite likely that one of your responsibilities is coaching your staff. In a poll conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership of its Leading Effectively e-newsletter readers, 70 percent of the 262 respondents said that coaching others is part of their job […]
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A recent post in the Wall Street Journal blog, Independent Street, posed the following question: Executive Coaching - Worth the Money? I am obviously biased, but there are ample hard data and anecdotal data to answer that question in the affirmative. I believe coaching is most effective when it is used for personal […]
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When I was working as a manager in corporate America, I was discouraged from being too ‘touch-feely’ in my dealings with employees, customers, and management. I was instructed by my management to be ‘all business’ at work, stick to the facts, and use critical thinking skills to make decisions. I never felt quite right about […]
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I just read the results of an interesting survey of 1,215 full- and part-time workers who were asked to rate how they felt about their jobs using this unusual 5-point scale:
I like my job so much I’d marry it
I like my job enough I’d date it seriously
It’s OK, I’d date it casually
I don’t like it, […]
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