From time to time I am asked how do I know when to decide one way or the other? Sure we would love to have all the necessary data to decide which way to go. Sometimes that just is not possible. Where data is missing – something kicks in. We all have our own special [...]
Posts Tagged ‘challenges’
Life Changing Decisions – What to do?
July 7th, 2010 
Steve Everyone has moments in their life that could be called life changing. Comes with the territory of life. What do you do? How do you come to your decision? For me, I am now at one of those cross-roads that I need to make a decision. My employer has offered to some employee’s early retirement. [...]
Posted in Observations 
Tags: challenges, change, Decision making, fear, reflections, relationship, thoughts 
2 Comments »Next Couple Weeks Could Define My 2010
January 11th, 2010 Steve After the holiday’s have come and gone and the first week back in the office is completed – the year gets really cracking those next two weeks. Most people I know – come back to the office refreshed and ready to go. From a work perspective, budgets for the upcoming year should be set (well, at [...]
Posted in Leading Teams, Observations Tags: challenges, communication, fun, goals, Leading Teams, people, rant 1 Comment »Critical Feedback And What To Do With It!
December 18th, 2009 Steve It is that time of year, where we all sit down and summarize our year in review. Assess your accomplishments over the year, gather some 360 degree feedback from the folks that are not shy to tell you what you did well or not so well and make plans for next year. I got some feedback this year – that [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: challenges, coaching, fear, listening, people, reflections, skills, traits No Comments »Social Computing Inside the Enterprise
September 10th, 2009 Steve Plenty of stuff has been said about social computing, enterprise 2.0, web 2.0 – pick a name. Much of what you read and listen to is externally focused. The arguements come when you try to apply external tools and capabilities to inside the firewall. I posted a blog – months ago on “Why Managers Fear [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: challenges, change, collaboration, communication, social computing, social media No Comments »How Do You Influence?
September 10th, 2009 Steve As many can tell from many of my posts, my career has been mostly as a manager. I have a somewhat easier route to influencing my direct reports. I’m the manager who coaches and mentors his employee’s. I’m the manager that writes and determines their compensation. I have more direct connection to my employee’s. Influencing [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: challenges, Leadership, Management task cycle, managing, performance management, trust No Comments »Social Media Arizona – The First
August 20th, 2009 Steve I was very fortunate to attend today’s first Social Media Arizona (the presentations have been uploaded just use the Recap) conference today. Fortunate for a few reasons. I have been following many of these people on Twitter and got to meet them in person. The topic (social media) is pretty near and dear to me. I [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: challenges, collaboration, communication, social computing 3 Comments »A Morning of Discussion – Communicating With Enterprise 2.0 Tools
August 3rd, 2009 Steve This past Friday, I had the opportunity to speak to the local Chandler PMI chapter at the monthly meeting. My topic was around communication and some of the changes that I have been attempting to do within my work experience. I have wrote a couple of blog posts here and internally for work. Overall the [...]
Meet the Teacher – Observation
July 24th, 2009 Steve Observations from an outsider, looking into Meet the Teacher. My wife is a school teacher. She teaches 4th grade at Haley Elementary in the Chandler School District. Over the years, I have volunteered my times to this special event. Why do I call it special – well, it is that time when the summer is [...]
Managing Your Manager
July 6th, 2009 Steve The other day I was asked by the person I am mentoring, do you manage up? I thought about that for about 3 seconds, the simple answer is of course. I was told that secret many years ago, by a person that mentored me! Managing up is the best tactic for getting more responsibility [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: challenges, Leadership, managing, team dynamics, trust No Comments »
