Aloha mai kākou ~ welcome to Managing with Aloha Coaching and the month of March, 2008.
Our value for the month is Ho‘ohanohano, presented in Chapter 13 of Managing with Aloha…
Want a sneak peek at what is in store for us?
Here is what our calendar looks like as of today, so print out a few of those templates Tim created for us and get ready!
Mahalo, thank you so much, to those in our Ho‘ohana Community who added their Mana‘o (thoughts, beliefs, convictions) and Aloha conversation with comments and trackbacks this month!
Your generosity in commenting here publicly makes a huge difference…
It is time to debrief our month: Ready for the 5th Beat of our monthly rhythm?
In Beat 5 we make decisions on the habits we will keep, and those we will work to discard based on the new lens or point of view that our value study may have given us. We seek to internalize the value worthiness that has been revealed to us most decisively over the past month’s time, pulling the trigger…
This was an article I initially wrote as a guest author on another site, and I am bringing it to MWAC with a new title because it seems to belong with Kuleana: Managers everywhere have got to accept their personal responsibility for improving that way-too-broken dark ages practice in workplaces called the Annual Performance Appraisal. Nearly everyone hates them, and all of you who are Great Managers Reconstructed CAN get them right — one employee at a time, one day at a time.
Aloha everyone,
This is somewhat off-topic to “talking story” and “better conversations,” however Talking Story has been reborn for me this year as my personal blog so here goes… you can skip it if learning to love writing is not on your wishlist.
Readers, and mostly other bloggers, ask me all the time how I can write so much, publishing for at least three sites regularly, and I have been called a “writing machine” on more than one occasion, so I thought I would try to explain it here…
Joanna Young of our Ho‘ohana Community recently commented for me at Talking Story, writing,
Rosa, I was thinking about you and writing this morning, when I was writing about the breath of life we can see or feel in our writing. I was wondering if you would talk about that as aloha, how we can write with aloha, putting something of ourselves into our words.
And I know you love to write :-)
This was my response…
Lots of good stuff getting shared over at Joyful Jubilant Learning within RFL this month: Click over and check it out…
Karen Wallace, who authors The Clearing Space and is the managing editor and creative force behind The Calm Space is hosting RFL for us this month, with a pilot entry called The Joy of Discovery.
So far, she has been joined by David Zinger with Five for February, Dean Boyer with Costs, U-Turns, Clarity, Joanna Young with a very creative Rapid, Rapid Fire (learner alert: you must see it), and you can be sure there will more as the new week continues…
As part of this month’s Rapid Fire Learning with Karen, I thought it would be fun to check our FeedBurner item stats over the first 24 days of February, and see which 5 emerged as the most popular postings in their combination of views and click-throughs. We are a site about the joy of learning, and so what if we assumed that these were the top learning triggers for all of you during February?
These were the posts that rose to the top of our traffic counts during the month… Congrats to Tim Draayer, Tim Milburn, Steve Sherlock, Ariane Benefit, and Dwayne Melancon…
RFL is hosted by Karen Wallace for us this month at Joyful Jubilant Learning: What are your 5 RFLs?
This is the fourth article in a 4-part Series for our Sunday Mālama in February, in which we kick off our Braver Experiments [with] Digital Learning initiative for Managing with Aloha Coaching (MWAC) in 2008.
Ready to go tribal in your digital learning habits?… use the MWAC comments to tell us what you are putting down on YOUR Digital Learning hit-list; your sharing will help me and everyone else in the tribe to explore all our options, and dream those bigger dreams.
I really like this idea… just going back to how Main Street USA used to be at one time, and encouraging much more small entrepreneurship…
“I think it helps with a fabric of the community too,” he said. “Someone in one of these live-work units could do a little coffee shop and so we’d have places where people could gather instead of walling yourselves off from your neighbors. People can gather and talk — like we used to many years ago.”
7 pointers to check out over the weekend ~ enjoy :)
At his blog Well-Read Life, Steve Leveen, CEO of Levenger has started a series he’s calling The Golden Age of Books. He explains…
Today there is plenty of hand-wringing about how a barrage of new media are stealing time away from reading. Government studies reinforce with statistics what we see by looking around: young people find 3D video games and Facebook more interesting than Jane Eyre.
Since our business is tied to such social changes, I continuously query people about their reading habits. Yet what I’m finding makes me feel encouraged rather than discouraged about reading, especially the reading of books.
In fact, from all the good news I see, I’m going to suggest that we may be entering a magnificent new era in reading that is already far better than anything we had in those good old days, whenever they might have been.
Remember the Love-minded Aloha Challenge I proposed to you on Valentines Day? This is a follow-up, with a couple of stories I received about the day, and a plan that Scott has for February 29…
The countdown officially starts today:
There are only 9 more days to the fourth annual A Love Affair with Books on Joyful Jubilant Learning!
The skinny is this:
Very briefly, the D5M is a simple habit. Each day, without fail, managers are to give five minutes of no-agenda time to at least one of their employees.
Your time is one of the most precious resources you have, and to give it as a gift to someone in the form of the Daily Five Minutes® just may be one of the best work-expressions of unconditional aloha there is…
I ended my last posting (at MWAC) this way:
So this brings us to the good news:
While I accept that the prevailing organizational culture may be going against you many times, great managers are more than capable of leading (and creating clarity with) a better way individually. They do this by clearly understanding for themselves first and foremost that when you define it as Kuleana, responsibility is what you accept more than what you are given. Again, it is a statement which implies, and rightly so, that responsibility is more about what you think it is, over and above what others might think.
The “prevailing organizational culture” is the hard part though, isn’t it…
