July 2008
26 posts
Talking Story: Having a meeting? Add silence to... →
While on a cruise through Alexander Kjerulf’s Chief Happiness Officer blog archives, I came across a post he did called 5 weeeeeeird tips for great meetings.
Of his 5 tips, the one I liked best was the 5th one: Use strategically placed silence.
Joyful Jubilant Learning: Learn more about the... →
The Commons is FABULOUS. Have you heard of it?
Talking Story: ROI: The old guys were right after... →
Productivity isn’t just about how good you feel about getting something done; there’s got to be a return you set out measure.
“Nobody has taught a single kid to text message,” said Carol Jago of the National...”
– Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
Talking Story: Sunday Reading with the Times: A... →
WatchHat-tip to Drew McLellan at Drew’s Marketing Minute: “If fonts came alive, this is what their conference would look like.”
Talking Story: Rapid Fire Learning for July ’08:... →
Rapid Fire Learning is in full swing at Joyful Jubilant Learning right now. Chris Owen of Pink Apple is hosting for us (Chris is an Aussie-based Relationship Specialist and blogger who shares her “Secrets to Successful Relating”): She has called her entry A Scandalous Peek Inside One Woman’s Learning.
Choosing to soothe strong feelings (eg. anxiety, frustration etc) with a distraction,...
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the...”
– ~ David Whyte
Just some quick updates
I write this from Nevada: Beginning a week away to connect with my two children, both in college and taking summer classes.
Just before I left, I did a few long-overdue updates for my business website, Say Leadership Coaching: My summer vacation message is on the homepage, and you’ll see most of my updates on my Services Page.
Enjoying the reading I have done today as I settle into my...
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Tuesday Essay #3:... →
TODAY: Absolutely crucial understanding about Managing with Aloha as a workplace philosophy:
We learn best from other people.
“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– To Live Simply ~ William Henry Channing {1810-1884}
A credo for one’s life, found at Herding Ducks
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Tuesday Essay #2:... →
Today’s Tuesday Essay includes detail on the 9 Key Concepts of Managing with Aloha and how they work together within workplace learning.
Joyful Jubilant Learning: Life is a Bowl of Lychee →
My second contribution to our theme for July: Learning from Pictures.
Let’s Talk Story: When business is not great, how... →
Had a coaching call this morning that was about my client’s need to refocus his business strategies right now; it’s a theme becoming more and more common in the short term given the U.S. economy (and how it specifically affects him/we in Hawai‘i), but when you really think about it, improving upon present business strategies is a timeless, recurring theme —or if not, it should be.
The call was...
Talking Story: Who’s doing the thinking right now,... →
Some thoughts on communication, triggered by a book manuscript I am previewing on systems thinking.
When someone doesn’t say something, it doesn’t necessarily mean they haven’t seen something —and thought of a better way of approaching it.
So what’s keeping them from speaking up?
Well, that’s what great managers and great co-workers aim to find out. If that person is you, you can be the most...
Managing with Aloha Coaching: Tuesday Essay #1:... →
Feeling great about the way that the ‘Ike loa essays came together for each Tuesday’s Coaching in July: This is #1 of 4 (i.e. the second to last week’s Day One Essay and intro for ‘Ike loa.)
In today’s essay, I…
define tertiary learning and why it is so important,
suggest the role that employers play with tertiary learning in the workplace,
talk about the MWA assertion that work...
Talking Story: We are Learning from Pictures →
As your week unfolds, if you’d like to take a short break and “walk outside” with me at some point, come visit my new photo set of the Kūki‘o Shoreline… You can think of it as your “blue chair learning” with Talking Story!
Joyful Jubilant Learning: Blue Chair Learning →
This is a contribution to our theme for July: Learning from Pictures. Won’t you share a picture and your learning from it with us this month too?
Details are here, and you need not be a photographer to join us (discover a great photo resource here, or visit the photographers within our JJL Flickr Group for their Creative Commons Licensed photos— feel free to mine!)
Joyful Jubilant Learning: A JJL Mini Lesson on... →
Publishing online seemed to open up for me ten-fold the day that I finally figured out how to add pictures to my articles —and link them properly.
There is no doubt that adding visuals to my repertoire has made me a better writer too. I am quite sure that readers here and elsewhere will agree that photos add to enormously to the value we who write online will share with them, for visuals trigger...
Joyful Jubilant Learning: For July 2008: Learning... →
Can pictures help you learn within the many ways they will trigger you?
Can pictures capture your learning better than a thousand words ever will?
What do you learn when you produce pictures of your own, whether with a camera, a pencil, a collage, or even a verbal description of it?
These are some of the questions we hope to explore in our Joyful Jubilant Learning theme for July: Learning from...
Managing with Aloha Coaching: For July 2008: ‘Ike... →
This month is somewhat of a first for us.
After publishing online for four full years, this will be the first time that ‘Ike loa [literal translation: long or lengthy (loa) knowledge (‘ike)] serves as the value of the month for our Ho‘ohana Community. ‘Ike loa is very well known to MWA readers and practitioners as the Hawaiian knowledge of learning and the seeking of wisdom.
