Your last day for Mālama?

No, not at all.

The month is ending today, but hopefully, in your independent study of it this month you have created a place for Mālama to continually thrive in your management style.

Managing with Aloha is fundamentally about strengths management evolving to personal and organizational value alignment, and how managers deliberately, intentionally, and responsibly work with their staff so they are high performers who love what they do.

By working it out every day in our own workplace experience, we continue to blend and weave a practice where this evolution happens.

Before I introduce a new value of the month tomorrow, take some time today to consider what you’ve done so far. We have studied,

Via TS/Ho‘ohana — and Via MWA Jumpstart

Ho‘omau in January — and continuity through strategic planning

Aloha in February — and intention

Kūlia i ka nu‘u in March,  — and personal mission,

and Mālama in April — and knowing well.

Continuity, Intention, Mission, and Knowing. If you have been tracking them this way (and I have only picked out one new component of each as an example), you have added to those brown boxes in your MWA texts for each of these values, and you have a newly revised edition with expanded meanings (your own kaona, or backstory) which no one else now has. You have incorporated and blended the learning which feels best as filtered through your own personal values, into your management and leadership practice.

Two more suggestions at this juncture:

1. A good reflection might be considering how your Language of Intention has evolved, and what vocabulary you are now comfortable with both in your use and in the completeness of your staff’s understanding and agreement.

2. Another might be how these values are separate yet very much connected. You may recall I posted about one such connection here for Kūlia i ka nu‘u and Mālama; and how with D5M, Mālama connects to ‘Ike loa. Think about others. It is an easy answer to say Aloha connects with everything, and it does, but can you articulate it in a personal way?

Tomorrow I shall post our new Ho‘ohana for May on Talking Story, however to give you a bit more time with this, I’ll wait to post the MWA Jumpstart on May’s value on Tuesday, the 2nd. Click in when you’re ready, and by all means, email me or comment here if you have some language or connection discoveries to share.

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