Excellent tips for appreciative – yet budget-minded – leaders at holiday time and all the time! Courtesy of an email from the good people at www.Baudville.com. Visit their website for more great ideas and great employee appreciation gifts, too! The holidays are an important time of year to express your appreciation for your team and their [...]
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Tuesday Tidbit
November 22, 2011Tuesday Tidbit
October 25, 2011Why invest time and energy in employee development? Every tiny apple seed has the potential to grow into an apple tree just bursting with shiny, sweet, delicious apples. But, if the seed isn’t properly planted and watered, it may not sprout and it won’t develop strong roots. As it grows, the sapling needs protection, so [...]
Thank you Thursday
October 20, 2011Thank you Thursday was a practice I adapted from an August 2010 post by the same name on the Modern Servant Leader blog, written by Ben Lichtenwalner. I loved the idea of intentional gratitude and the intentional expression of gratitude. What I’ve learned is that thinking about being thankful for the “big” things is easy. Remembering all of the little things [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
October 11, 2011It feels like the last few weeks’ Tuesday Tidbit messages have been quite the serious kind. I thought I would go for a little silliness this week. What I found though, is that even silliness can have a serious meaning. Here are some great Dr. Seuss quotes to consider: You have brains in your head. [...]
Thank you Thursday
October 6, 2011It’s a good feeling when I’m asked to do something because I do it well. Through my past actions, I’ve proven that I can take on whatever the task is and be counted on to get it done and do it well. I generally work independently, I can rally the troops, I can transform a [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
October 4, 2011Happy Customer Service Week! Did you think we made this stuff up? No, no! Every year since a 1992 proclamation by then President George Bush, commitment to excellence in customer service has been celebrated in the U.S. In reviewing the text of the original proclamation, several sections jumped out as applicable to what we do day in [...]
Thank you Thursday
September 22, 2011Sore throat. Stuffy nose. Coughing. Sneezing. Nausea. Chills. Sounds like a commercial for a popular cold and flu medicine, doesn’t it? Instead, it’s a list of symptoms I took to the doctor Tuesday morning. Good news; the strep test was negative, no fluid in the lungs, oxygen levels were good. Go home, take your medicine, drink plenty of fluids, [...]
Newslink: Leadership
September 19, 2011Coping With Change In Your Organization Today’s newslink is not to a news article, but to the Dodging Landmines video series posted on bnet.com, offering quick tips to leaders trying to help their teams through major changes in the workplace. If your workplace is like mine and you find yourself experiencing change firsthand, as well as [...]
I don’t work for Hallmark, but…
September 5, 2011Do you enjoy getting greeting cards in the mail? I do. I like pulling the mail out of the mailbox and seeing that familiar greeting card shaped envelope poking out from the bills and junk mail. I save all the cards from my kids and my husband. I have a few that I saved from my parents, especially [...]
Thank you Thursday
August 4, 2011So, the first surgery is in the books. One basal cell carcinoma removed, one to go. The first tumor – and I shuddered when the doctor first used that term – was 1 cm in diameter. The incision was 2.5 cms, a zig-zaggy cut along the nose and nostril. I have 2 internal stitches and [...]
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