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The scream
Lately, I’ve heard about co-workers having a shouting match filled with accusations and four-letter language because frustrations had boiled over, colleagues ignoring each other because they don’t like how something was handled, work piled on by managers who are unaware of the impact, and frustrations with unreasonable expectations when days are filled with back-to-back, on-screen
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Assumptions
I was talking with a director who was aggravated about an email he received covering a number of issues. He assumed the writer had bcc’d someone else and it affected how he viewed the content as well as the writer of it. Did he know the person’s true intent? He decided the best course of
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Baking cheesecakes
I was reading about Anamaria Morales, a young woman whose dogged determination and love of baking and selling her creative cheesecakes got her through college – the first in her family to go. She started her business, The College Confectionista, with that dream when she was a senior in high school. She banked $9,000 the first
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Learn something
When you want to learn something, what do you do? You pay attention. You listen. You block out distractions. You look for connections. What if you were to treat those you work with as if you could learn something from them. Especially those you avoid dealing with and those who annoy you. What might you
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What turns them on
Leaders develop their reputation by the way they lead others. It is the leader’s role to develop their people in ways that will help them blossom and grow. Whether it’s direct reports, teammates or colleagues, it takes asking questions to learn what flips their switch on and what turns it off. Each person is unique.