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What comes to mind when you think of the biggest risks you’ve ever taken? Did you come to regret taking any of them? When I consider these questions, there have been very few, if any, downsides to the risks that come to mind. Perhaps this says I’m not much of a true risk taker. However, Read more about Defining Risk[…]
Email is often the overwhelming part of people’s daily work life; there’s too much email, it’s disruptive, and overwhelming. For many, there’s an urge to switch to other communication methods, such as Slack, or texting, simply because their email has become so unmanageable. I am not in that camp – I can manage my email Read more about Making eMail Work for You[…]
In my first career — I was a Social Studies teacher – I had a mentor who taught me so much. He was my Science partner in a teamed teaching environment at a middle school. Rick is about 20 years older than me. He had another career in advertising prior to teaching and started his Read more about “You can say ‘No’ to this.”[…]
Many years ago I was on a leadership committee where we took a self-assessment quiz to examine which of three different personality traits we might favor. The three areas were – Relationship seeking, Goal oriented, and “Big Idea” oriented. Everyone tended to have one of these traits dominate the other two, and I suppose it Read more about It Takes All Types – Know Yours[…]
As I write this post, it is approaching New Year’s, and like many if not most people, I do some scheduled reflection at this time of the year. I learned about goals and the systems one needs for achieving them through training for the Olympic sport known as sprint canoe. While I never made the Read more about Olympic Sized Goal Setting[…]