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A very helpful exercise to conduct with direct reports is what I call an alignment questionnaire. I ask staff to complete four questions and use their answers in future conversations to gain alignment on our priorities, expectations, and style. Later, I refer to what evolves from our conversations for use in the evaluation process.
The questions are as follows:
...Enjoy re-reading some of my favorite dots for a few days while I enjoy some time away….
When someone gets all worked up about something, the temptation is often to share their emotions with the first person around. Many times this plays out like someone vomiting in a cartoon — the words just blather out and spew all over the listener. The original party may...
Everyone has been in situations that created ire and where emotions rise.
The key is what happens next. You may pout or let your anger fester, causing drama as it lingers beyond the immediate interaction, or you can repress it and move on as if nothing had occurred.
What happens less frequently is taking a few minutes to reflect on what caused the emotion...
As I write this, someone from the Tri-State Poop Pickers is cleaning out the dog waste from my neighbor’s yard. It’s an actual service, one that I can’t imagine paying for, but which is a regular vendor in my neighborhood.
I continue to see people providing services that were once thought unimaginable to outsource. Lowe’s now has a program where its technicians will...
Ever wonder if anything good came from COVID? Well, here’s something that did.
During the pandemic, artist Hercule VanWolfwinkle drew some silly pet portraits and shared them with his mates on social media. It was designed to make them smile during a dark time, and he thought it would be the end of it.
But it wasn’t. Demonstrating the best of what social m...