July 1st is this coming Friday. It’s time for a 6-month review. Here’s what I suggest: Make space for better in the 6 months of 2016 to come, and Give yourself an energy audit. Over the weekend I checked in with photographer and creative Chase Jarvis, and he got me thinking about energy. Ours. Human-powered […]
Archives for June 2016
Brexit, Elections2016, and Witnessing History in the Making
June 23, 2016 will go down in history as Brexit, the day the British voted to leave the European Union. I have been fascinated with Brexit as the voting has happened. Glued to my laptop’s delivery of online news which reported and analyzed the results throughout yesterday evening, I was unable to contain myself, and […]
The Comeback Kids of Communication: Email and the Newsletter
Hana hou as we say in Hawai‘i ~ let’s do this again. By “this,” I mean Talking Story with the Ho‘ohana Community via email. I’m Walking my Talk In the spirit of my recent articles (June 13th, and June 16th) about good communication strengthening relationships and building healthy culture, I have an announcement to make: […]
Jumpstart: The Simplest and Best Managing with Aloha Toolkit there is
Aloha nui, happy 1st day of summer 2016! Let’s talk story, Every manager has work-related adages and mantras they’re fond of, and so do I. One of my favorites which has weathered the test of time and weathered it well, is “Doing the Drill Down: Less is More.” Less is More This is particularly true […]
Language of Intention Feeds the Culture Beast
In case you missed it, this post is a follow-up to this one: In Culture-building, Start with Communication Within that article we talked about 2 things: 1. A healthy culture is an enthusiastic receivership for meaningful work. 2. People within that culture — your peeps — receive best, when good communication practices are in place. […]
In Culture-building, Start with Communication
Give me Culture! I’ve been immersed in our Say Leadership Coaching projects since returning from my summer vacation, to find that culture-building is the desired darling of the training objectives we hear. Energies are high. People feel ready to accomplish more, and they want to feel some traction. They’re stirring with a good impatience for […]