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 […]
Bone Structure and Muscle Mass
I am rereading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones for maybe the 7th or 9th time; I lose count. It’s always good, whether you read it from start to finish as written, or just dip in for a chapter a day, skimming those titles to see what calls to you. One morning this past week, […]
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 […]
Managers are Readers
Here is a promise, from me to you. As 2015 arrives, I will not nag you about making resolutions. I will follow-up however, and keep talking about piloting projects. Have you chosen one yet? In case you missed it: Piloting Projects: Job One is You. If not, here is an idea for a personal project […]
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 […]
Holiday Zing-ing, inspired by Kūlia i ka nu‘u
I was very cheered by this message, emailed in response to my last post (Just 5 Over the Holidays, 2013) “Rosa, one of the most useful things I’ve learned from your Managing with Aloha blog over the past year, is from your coaching on ‘verbing’ and attaching that ‘ing’ to our words of intent so […]
Just 5 Over the Holidays, 2013
Look Back, to Go Forward in a better way. Many business coaches will tell you to ramp up your business focus now, for this is a time when most of the world slows down business-wise and you can seize those curtailed attention opportunities to competitive advantage. That has never been my approach, for much as […]