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| | Blog Envy, Steve Jobs and Getting Things Done | | | Melanie Keveles | | | TweetI keep on promising myself that now’s the time to get back into the rhythm of blog writing – but the well has been dry for some time. After all, what do you have to say after taking your 100 year old father to the ER five times, visiting him through two stints in the [...] | |
| | | EXECUTIVE NETWORKING: JOB SEARCH SMARTS! | | | Bob Benwick, MSc. OD, MCC, PCC, CPCC | | | The executive’s job search continues to be getting even more challenging. It is particularly difficult in these extremely challenging economic times. That is exactly the experience of my client Rick who had departed from his executive role with his previous employer about 6 month ago. A former Senior Vice President, Rick was struggling with job [...] | |
| | | Are you "sort of" hedging? | | | noreply@blogger.com (Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC) | | | I have just listened to the recordings of three calls I facilitated. I was mortified to discover that I use the expression, "sort of" almost as much as my teen-aged boys say, "like" or "so...yeah". And then I noticed I wasn't the only one. Now I hear it everywhere. This phrase weakens what I am saying. It makes me sound tentative. And sort of weak...so yeah . The definition is "to some extent". How is that for equivocating? Is it or isn't it What do you think? What do I think? I could substitute the expression for the adverb: rather. "It is rather obnoxious, wouldn't you say?" It sounds more elegant- begs a British accent, in fact. But really, it is still paltering . (Now there is a word I have to use more!) I am putting a stake in the ground for clear and confident speech. I will say what I think and what I feel. I will say it respectfully. I will say it transparently. And I can be wrong. (Let's face it, I will be wrong a lot of the time.) I can apologize. I can take it back. I can re-think. I can be influenced by you. Are you with me? Sort of? | |
| | | Good to Be Back! | | | Melanie Keveles | | | TweetComing on line….Again! Whew! It’s been some year – I’ve been attending to my Dad who turned 100 in June and I have not been paying attention to this blog! Have you noticed? Anyway, Dad is now content in his new assisted living surroundings in Duluth, MN and I am starting to think about what’s [...] | |
| | | | Melanie Keveles | | | TweetComing on line….Again! Whew! It’s been some year – I’ve been attending to my Dad who turned 100 in June and I have not been paying attention to this blog! Have you noticed? Anyway, Dad is now content in his new assisted living surroundings in Duluth, MN and I am starting to think about what’s [...] | |
| | | You're holding back aren't you? | | | noreply@blogger.com (Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC) | | | The other day my husband and I took a walk and he asked me about how things were going in my coaching business. And we had a really good and interesting discussion. He asked good questions and offered some good ideas. And then, in some weird tangential moment I heard myself saying, "You know the thing I have been really passionate about lately is....." and suddenly the emotional field shifted. My heart started beating faster and I realized I had been thinking about this in my head and hadn't really talked about it out loud. And a path opened in front of me that I know is calling me . How many of you are engaged day to day in .... good stuff, things you think are important, things where you feel you have something to offer, things where you feel you have a responsibility? And... they are not really the things that fire your passion? they are not really the things that you care so deeply about you can be moved to argue with people you love when the don’t get it? they are the things about which you say, Oh I can't do that. There are so many people more qualified than I am. The ship has left the harbor. It's too late to get involved. they are the things that make you think--this is the stuff of legacy. this touches a deep, real part of me So.... What if we are all waiting for you to have the courage to start talking about this? What if we are all waiting for you to start doing something about this? You know what... I think we are. | |
| | | We communicate with our being: How are you showing up at work? | | | noreply@blogger.com (Pearl Mattenson, CPCC, ACC) | | | Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I love this: virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. This phrase captures two such important ideas: The first idea : our inner worlds show up with us wherever we go and we often are totally oblivious to the fact that they are releasing a quality that is palpable to those around us The second idea : our breathing is thankfully effortless most of the time and we do not have to tell ourselves to breathe and yet, we have total and absolute control over our breath. So, too, we can choose to communicate certain intangible qualities with full intention Think of any meeting you have ever been in. You walk in the room and it is rife with “virtue or vice”. Are you reacting to the actions of those in the room? Probably not. There is the usual- small talk, smiling, getting food from the side table. People are shuffling papers and adjusting their seats. Some may even be looking at the clock. Imagine this. A meeting has been called to discuss the deployment of a serious cost cutting measure. People will lose their jobs. Morale will suffer. The goals will not shift and everyone is asked to do more with less. Some of the people in that room are loaded for bear. Others are quaking in their boots. Some are looking around the room wondering who they can throw under the bus to save their own skin. A video would not capture this. But the air is pungent with self-preservation, ill intent and naked fear. This is what we bring into a room and into a relationship. It can be unconscious like breathing. It can be conscious like breathing. What is the impact you want to create? This is a question my clients and I tackle a lot. It doesn’t usually result in different actions. The very act of connecting with an intention creates the shift. Try this : Think about something coming up in the next few hours- ask yourself the question, “What is the atmosphere I want to contribute to?” “How can I connect with that quality?” Then bring that intention with you. | |
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