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Don’t Read This If You Don’t Need to Save Time as a Team

August 14, 2012 — 2 Comments

Those of you who are familiar with the DISC personality profile/assessment will know what I mean when I say I have “high C” and “some D” tendancies. (If you’re not familiar with DISC, you should check out this Wikipedia entry.) Essentially, this means three things for me:

  1. I really like being right.
  2. I don’t mind making sure others know that I’m right.
  3. I don’t necessarily play or work well with others.

I’m okay with #1… not so much with #2 and #3. These tend to be ongoing lessons in humility for me. Whether your personality reflects dominance, influence, steadiness or conscientiousness, there are several shortcomings with each one. I have identified mine and am working just about daily on avoiding each of them. Continue Reading…

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The Pruning & Purging Continues

March 9, 2012 — 4 Comments

The continuing, encouraging process of clearing the clutter from my professional life. You need to do it too! I’d like to help.

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Interruption or Opportunity?

November 30, 2011 — 3 Comments

Much of what I do in my day-to-day is related to administration, oversight, coordination; in a word: tasks. Ultimately, I realize that the end result of my daily, weekly and monthly tasks affects people but I can tend to get very focused on the tasks and often times in my efforts to be efficient with things, I miss chances to be effective with people.

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I’ve been reminded lately however, that tasks at the cost of relationships is a detriment to what I do.

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