As the author of Managing with Aloha, I get thoughtful questions from people via email. This one came a few days ago: Dear Rosa, I just got a job as an intern. I’m pretty excited about it, for this company is growing like crazy, and they are known to give their graduating interns terrific opportunities […]
Better Person, Better Manager, Better Leader. Alaka‘i Batch 24.
Actually, there are two batches, 12 each, and self-coaching has never been easier. Taken separately, we’ve called them The 12 Rules of Self-Management, and The 12 Rules of Self-Leadership, and they came back to mind for me after this: Good person first, good manager as a consequence. We self-manage our own behavior first, and manage […]
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, […]
Winter Readiness for Alaka‘i Managers
On this, our Sunday Mālama for the final day of November 2014, let’s nalu from our feasting ‘thanks’ to the ‘giving.’ This is a post to include in the manager’s self-coaching toolkit, a bring-back from last year, for I’d heard from several managers that this emphasis on readiness had helped them. The idea is to ease […]
Be the Best Boss
I have written about this before, including in my book, and most of the post which follows is an updated edit of a 2010 column I had written for Say “Alaka‘i” when I wrote for The Honolulu Advertiser. This time however, it came back to mind because of recent experiences I have had with a […]
New on Ho‘ohana Aloha: Daily Affirmations for Alaka‘i Managers
I have started a new series of daily affirmations on managing better, and I wanted to point them out to those of you who do not subscribe to my tumblr, Ho‘ohana Aloha, or presently follow Managing with Aloha’s LinkedIn Group. Affirmations and Speaking with Aloha To affirm something, is to articulate it clearly in your […]
Dear Manager, Don’t let me get bored.
Interesting work will be intentional work. We often hear this interesting/intentional work of Ho‘ohana described this way: Good work will be engaging. Good work will be important and count for something, and it will be fulfilling. I doubt anyone would argue, yet this is what was reported by The Atlantic as an all-too-common workplace story: […]