Facilitating Everyone Communicates Few Connect
About three years ago I came across Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John Maxwell; I’m a bit of a Maxwell fan having led my team through a couple of his leadership and teamwork books over the years. This title attracted me because it speaks to something that I’ve always struggled with, the difference between communicating … Continue reading
Weekly Wrap Up – Kodyaz, Agile Exams and Do Nothing
One Thing I’ve Learned Over the years I’ve collected a bunch of methods to pivot data in queries and result sets, some easy, some way too complicated, none really the best method. This week I finally sat down and focused on learning how to use the Pivot function in SQL Server (It’s not as easy … Continue reading
The Perils of Praise
I’ve always thought that the process of motivating others was one of the trickiest and most difficult to master in the management arena; too much praise and you become less believable, too little praise and you’re impossible to please, uneven and praise and you play favorites. This recently became a topic of conversation with a … Continue reading
December 2013 Goals
Leadership A few weeks ago I turned in a draft proposal for my 2014 leadership skills training program, this is the facilitated book club I’ve led the last two years, in that proposal I requested that we add a third group and facilitator and that we also move to two to books a year to … Continue reading
October 2013 Goals
Leadership 2014 Leadership Training Our facilitators meeting went really we decided to propose we each do two classes next year, do them on alternating weeks and limit participation to 15 attendees due to the size of our conference rooms. Our new books are still in the midst of the decision making process, we’re definitely going … Continue reading
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