Ho‘ohana Aloha

New way? Up to now this has been my usual way, if you think “friends” and not solely farmers. I need to get better in the other biz-type ways of measuring blog ROI, I suppose. Then again, this does explain why I keep blogging despite any conventional measures of ROI…

Took the day off yesterday and went ‘opihi picking with Ker. Well, he picked. I took pictures…

It was a great opportunity for me to couple Ka lā hiki ola, our value for June, with the value of Ho‘omau, and add a few current pictures to the MWA Lesson of the ‘Opihi.

The first time I went out on the ocean with the Alaka‘i Nalu, I was in seat five of their first and oldest canoe, the seat where the steersman could best keep an eye on me. The canoe was named Ka lā hiki ola, the dawning of a new day.

My kaona (hidden meaning) in that day was that she represented my hope in all we would do together as an ‘Ohana bonded by our Aloha and Mālama for each other. When I climbed into that canoe, I was making a deliberate choice as to what I was going to give my attentions to.

That day figured prominently in my own search for Pono, and it would be a turning point in my relationship with the Alaka‘i Nalu: They didn’t believe I could understand them completely until I had been out on the ocean with them.
—from Ka lā hiki ola in Managing with Aloha

I now suspect that the Alaka‘i Nalu were much wiser than I in knowing that I needed some of that “Can do” confidence in the canoe for myself most of all. It wouldn’t be the first time I had much to learn from my employees, nor the last!

Within Ka lā hiki ola is a little word that is immensely powerful: hiki…

I have decided on some shift for Managing with Aloha Coaching, and kēia manawa, it starts right now, today.

I decide on the next value theme for each month quite far in advance, though I normally will not flesh them out in full for Managing with Aloha Coaching until a few weeks out. Often, something exceptionally wonderful happens…

Read more, and decide to choose Ka lā hiki ola, “the dawning of a new day” as your value for June with me!

As May 2008 draws to a close, we’d like to say thank you for going to the movies with us, and for sharing your lessons learned too. Over 140 comments were posted here in May – clearly that time we have sat before the big screen munching our popcorn has made significant learning impressions on us! You could say that $4 coke ended up to be a bargain after all…

“Easy for you to say.”

During my corporate management career, that would be the response I could get from others on my management team at times, whether it was to me directly, with a sigh and doubtful shake of their head, or muttered under their breath as they slumped their shoulders and started to walk away thinking the conversation was over.

It wasn’t. I might give them a bit of a respite, but to be sure, the conversation was not over.

Exciting news! Cody Robert officially joins our Ho‘ohana Community today with a guest posting on JJL! Well, technically there is no “official” way to join the HC, just start hanging out with us :) Cody does that really well in his aloha-filled way too! So come meet him.

Why Twitter?
It has become our newest challenge within our Brex initiative for 2008: Brave Experiments with Digital Learning.