Your In-house Training: Do it!
When it comes to workplace programs, I have 3 favorites to recommend to managers who wish to cultivate more Managing with Aloha “real work” practices in their culture: The Daily 5 Minutes, mandated for...
View ArticleThis January, Slow Down
I’ve been using these ebbing days of my holiday sabbatical to check in with family, customers and friends. Know what I’m noticing? A very ambitious rush, where their ‘lists of opportunity’ are...
View ArticleThe Whole is Greater than the Sum of Parts
… and there is no better example of this adage than a Human Being. Dear Manager, Here is one of those questions which constantly bounces around in your people’s heads about you, though they never say...
View Article1-Catch the Good, 2-Tell Them!
So this happened; I’m touring a workplace right before a coaching session with an executive team, and the manager showing me around introduces me to someone he describes as “one of my lead people, a...
View ArticleThe Opportunity to Reset
Aloha my friends, I’m just back from experiencing my very favorite thing: ‘OHANA. I enjoyed a week unplugged from my work (and digital everything) to focus solely on summer vacation away with my...
View ArticleWhen Children Sleep, Angels Whisper
I took my annual visit to the Talking Story archives this morning, in honor of my Dad’s birthday, and decided our Papa Angel whispers need to bless these blog pages too. Hau‘oli lā hānau ke Lani Papa ~...
View ArticleI wish you Christmas Moments
Mele Kalikimaka, a very Merry Christmas to you today. There is a quiet, me-time moment I cherish greatly each Christmas Day, one which fills me with wonder and a uniquely recurring faith. Over the...
View ArticleSunday Mālama: Dads are Forever
Yes, I know that the first Sunday this December is actually the 7th (and that it may not even be Sunday yet as you read this). Call it my editorial privilege if you like, for I want to honor my dad...
View ArticlePiloting Projects: Job One is You
Do you know who Roz Savage is? For those who don’t, Roz is the first woman to have rowed solo across three oceans – the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. Solo. And you know how that came to be? She knew...
View ArticleWhen it’s good, S-T-R-E-T-C-H it out!
I’m so excited. This is the day I program my contact places with my “on vacation!” message, and switch gears for two weeks. The hubby and I will be jetting off to a family vacation, and I can barely...
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