This past week has been a reminder of two things I’ve learned about leadership over the years: One we see (and watch for), and the other we hear (much to our surprise, hearing it loud and clear.) One; Leadership is highly visible. Two; Silence from our Leaders is deafening. Meanwhile, heads lean together and whisper […]
Speaking with Aloha: Called on a Mission
In Speaking with Aloha, articulate the mission you feel called to as your affirmation for today. How does the work you have currently chosen to do, and have scheduled for the day ahead, connect to getting a mission accomplished? In Managing with Aloha, you start to learn Hawaiian words for values. In essence, they are […]
Reprise: This January, Slow Down ~ Be a Champion
When I started to queue up this week’s Saturday Archive Aloha, this instantly popped up in my memory though it was written two years ago: This January, Slow Down. I have been trying to do just that. Maybe you have too? January has this tendency to zoom ahead with a lot of impatience, not all […]
Speaking with Aloha: Energy, Managing, Leading
In Speaking with Aloha, managing and leading (ref: Be an ~INGer) are not interchangeable words / verbs for Alaka‘i Managers: We define managing and leading in terms of energy, and we believe that great managers do both every single day. Human energy is the primary asset in any workplace, any discipline, any industry: Human labor, […]
Speaking with Aloha: Be an ~INGer
In Speaking with Aloha, we continue to be ~ingers. An ~inger is a doer. The magic sauce of Managing with Aloha is in connecting our values to dynamic verbs that will drive better behaviors, our actions of Aloha. For instance, that is essentially what our recent year-end / year-begin exercise was all about. Our constant […]
On Batching: The Fewer the Better
19 Values of Aloha, just made 20, is too much. For this week’s Saturday Archive Aloha, I had queued up Managerial Batching: 1, 2, 5 and 7 as our article for reviewing/ remembering/ repeating. Batching is a productivity key in the ‘Ohana in Business model of MWA workplace basics (Key 6). Then I realized, that […]
Speaking with Aloha: Circle of Influence
In Speaking with Aloha, articulate your Circle of Influence in your journal. Said another way, what do you consider to be your current lay of the land and what possibility there can affirm the day’s efforts? Trust me, you DO have influence. How so? Energize your self-talk: End your journal entry by phrasing it as […]