It's performance evaluation season at work. On Thursday, I delivered three evaluations. I actually enjoy delivering performance evaluations and - even more - thinking about goals for the next year. At the end of each conversation, I asked the team member, How was that? It's the mark of a successful manager when the reply is, …
In The Hobbit, there is a scene where Bilbo and the Dwarves are wandering around Mirkwood forest. They have lost the path and are wandering without purpose. They have run out of food and are starving and can't make themselves eat the animals that they catch, for they seem inedible. They have run out of …
Or, rather, how not to ask for help. Yesterday, my husband received an impassioned plea for help from his sister, who is caregiving for their elderly parents. The 2011 AARP policy document, Valuing the Invaluable, reported that women who care for older family members, spend an average of 20 hours per week doing caregiving responsibilities. …
Odd that a site dedicated to change talks about acceptance? Sometimes the path to change passes through acceptance. I went through a phase, earlier in life, where I had trouble getting dressed for work. Nothing seemed to look good enough. I would get dressed in the clothes I had picked out, look at myself in …
Do you wake up some mornings, fully primed? Where your brain is already fully in thought about something? I'm not sure what started me this morning. I had been talking last night about all the people in my life - my sister, my sister-in-law, friends, the leader of my Toastmasters chapter, colleagues, random people I …
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