MWA3P: Productivity and Working with Aloha

Aloha and welcome,

There is a productivity index coming up below the fold for you... Give me a few words as introduction first?

I started writing online in August of 2004, a few months before Managing with Aloha was published, and productivity was a very natural interest for me.

Here's the connection: MWA is about the reinvention of today’s workplace, achieved through reconstruction of the roles of managers and leaders. In the coaching I do, I start in two places simultaneously;

a) A person’s primary ROLE (we call the process Ho‘ohana) and
b) A person’s PRODUCTIVITY.

This has always been my approach because increased effectiveness (versus ‘busy-ness’) makes working room for the higher-level MWA work that will help that manager be a true star. If I neglect to help a manager open up more ‘possibility space,’ MWA will seem overwhelming and not as exciting and energizing as it is meant to be. Managers who are effective, and who’ve got a grip on their work zoom forward with the MWA core workplace concepts of aloha-capacity, value-alignment, strengths-management: We actually have fun with these concepts!

What has happened since I started blogging, I am humbled and thrilled to say, is that my readers who are not managers (and do not wish to be) have happily reaped the benefits of learning more about MWA3P too (the nickname of the MWA productivity curriculum). For about eighteen months I was a featured author for Lifehack.org (mahalo Leon!)

I pointed you to this page to redirect older links and recommendations I have been honored with, for my MWA3P productivity writing which previously resided at www.ManagingWithAloha.com (which is now strictly my book portal) is now at Managing With Aloha Coaching (MWAC for short):

Here are your choices:
—Choose one, or tag this page to eventually cruise through them all!
Mahalo —thank you for taking the time to read this update,
—Rosa Say

Go to the MWAC Home Page

Go to the MWAC About Page (subscription choices are there too).

Go directly to the MWAC Subscription Page

Buy the book!

Top 5 MWA3P articles over the last few weeks:

• The 1 List That Every Manager Must Work With: If I am hard pressed to recommend one and only one tool as THE most essential one in every manager’s tool kit, there is no question for me what it will be.

• Get Responsible about Performance Reviews once and for all: Dreaded as they are by both givers and receivers, and as ineffective as they are, Annual Performance Reviews remain a staple of workplaces everywhere.

• The Role of the Manager in Managing with Aloha: The case for a better way to work. If we do not change the role of the manager, we will not change much else. You may not be a manager, but this is what you should expect and demand from yours!

• What’s the skinny on the Daily 5 Minutes? Your time is one of the most precious resources you have, and to give it as a gift to someone in the form of the D5M® just may be one of the best work-expressions of unconditional aloha there is.

• Learn to Finish Conversations Well Redux: We managers can get ourselves into far too many situations where we unwittingly set others up for disappointment because we haven’t learned to finish our conversations well.

The MWA3P Mini Course: A 4-Part Series MWA3P: Better workplace productivity the Managing with Aloha way! MWA3P: Part One – The Individual’s Performance MWA3P: Part Two – Productivity in the Organization MWA3P: Part Three – How Organizational Culture Happens Each post just gets better, Rosa - the categories are very helpful to me and the resources are terrific. In particular, I like the theme of how our consistent actions - not simply desires and platitude - will create our reality, and the reality of our organizations. ~ Dwayne Melancon of Genuine Curiosity

Oldies and Goodies: Best of MWA3P articles from the archives (from all my sites, and by your click-votes):

• How Writing Flow Can Happen For You Too ~ 9 Ways: Readers, and mostly other bloggers, ask me all the time how I can write so much, publishing for at least three sites regularly, and I have been called a "writing machine" on more than one occasion, so I thought I would try to explain it here.

• The Best, Yet Most Underutilized Tool for Communication There Is: AND it won't cost you a dime.

• Start a WOW! Project at Work: You have to do them, so why not learn to love your projects? Don’t accept another routinely-chosen assignment again: If you must accept it from your higher ups, don’t allow it to be boring and common.

• Do you have a Stop Doing List? Life is full isn't it. Living a life is full of all sorts of stuff, and we human beings are great collectors of that stuff, carrying so many inconsequential quirks, habits, and to-do listings around with us.

• Palena ‘ole: Discover your 4-Fold Capacity: This is an article I am hoping you will think of as a potential buster for you – YOUR potential, busted wide open!

• Are you a Conversation Killer without realizing you are? Three Tips to help: There are times when all we want is the peaceful certainty of our own voices without any external clutter — sometimes, even well-meaning voices can be clutter. Kākou times are not those times.

• GTD Learned with 5 Take-Aways: Devotees know that you love GTD for the same reason you hate it: You can personalize it in an endless amount of ways to suit you.

• Living Mahalo (A Life of Thankfulness) with my Dailies: My Dailies fill a simple list on a single sheet of paper, and I print a dozen copies, putting them wherever I may need them to be readily accessible for me. The electronic copy goes on my calendar as a daily recurrence for 5am so I read it whenever I first switch online.

• Learn a 5-Step Weekly Review: You’ll love it. I don’t know about you, but without my calendar there is very little I would remember. Surely calendars are the single best organizational tool EVER conceived of. If there were no such thing I would have had to invent some semblance of one myself by now, or I would appear to be a complete mess. I would be a mess.

• ‘Ōpala ‘ole: De-cluttering Work Processes: We bring some specific metrics and ratios to our coaching, so those in our classes can easily measure their progress before and after the training. As a quick overview...

Want more? Wow; great!

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Mahalo nui loa!

Please note: All of my writing is shared with you in the spirit of Aloha. Read Aloha in A Love Affair with Writing. For reprints, use these guidelines: All work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

By the way, if you have a favorite MWA3P article that you feel should be listed here, use the comments to let me know! You will be helping learn how to best serve you. ~ Rosa