Good Day Team, This week’s challenge is about strengthening intragroup connections. I’m using ‘intragroup’ as a word to describe ‘within the team’. It’s a good time to think about what you’re doing to strengthen the connections between people when you’ve recently added new people, re-organized people into new positions, and/or made changes to the way […]
Good Day Team, The coach’s challenge this week revolves around managing your boss. In the January 2005 special issue of the Harvard Business Review, there is an interesting article entitled “Managing Your Boss”. The article talks about “the process of consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, […]
Good Day Team, The subject of this week’s challenge is “no blame”. As you may remember, I send this particular challenge out about every six months. Blaming others is so prevalent that I find it useful to remind myself and others what a waste of time and energy it is. The definition of blame is, […]
Good beginning of the week, everyone- The coach’s challenge of the day is to “celebrate what you want to see more of”. Throughout the week we often witness each other making an effort that goes above and beyond the usual standard of a “job description”. It may be a small gesture (over in a heart […]
Good day Team, The coach’s challenge of the week is to consider ‘leading from within”. Leading from within extends and builds upon empowerment and participative management. It also reflects the core of the leader’s being. In fact, it is a way of being. Tips and techniques alone do not define leading from within. Leading from […]
Good morning Team, It seems appropriate to acknowledge the New Year with a coach’s challenge about beginning. I have some practical observations about beginnings. 1. We tend to begin the things we like to do without any resistance. 2. We tend to put off beginning the things we don’t like to do. 3. We often […]
Good morning Team, The coach’s challenge of the week is about letting things be as they are and not trying to make everything perfect. This weekend I found myself rushing from place to place, struggling to do Christmas shopping, working on preparing my house for the holidays, sending out Christmas cards, making lists about people […]
Good morning Team, The coach’s challenge for the week is to think globally. We are kept so busy day to day that we often don’t take time to think beyond our immediate challenge or our short term goals. The idea that we could somehow affect the greater world outside of us seems foreign. And yet, […]
Good morning Team, The coach’s challenge for this week is to feel gratitude. With the experience of Thanksgiving just behind us and the coming of Christmas in a few weeks, it’s an opportune time to feel grateful for all that we have. Feeling abundant is a state of mind. Each of us is given what […]
Good morning Team, The coach’s challenge for the week is to be consistent. The definition for consistent in the dictionary reads as follows: Agreeing or accordant, compatible, not self-contradictory. Constantly adhering to the same principles, course, form, etc. Holding firmly together, cohering. Syn. Congruous, harmonious. Year’s ago I asked Bill McGowan, the founder and first […]