At work a co-worker emailed me a link they felt I would find interesting. It was a post by Karen Burns on Money and Yahoo Finance, 7 Things Never to Say to Your Boss and 7 Things your Boss Should Never Say. I found both pretty good. What about the items that should be said? I think [...]
Posts Tagged ‘communication’
Words That Should Be Spoken
April 20th, 2010 
Steve 
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations 
Tags: communication, goals, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, relationship, trust 
1 Comment »Let’s Ditch The “Social” Part
April 11th, 2010 Steve Over the past year plus, I have been pushing for using Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to improve communications and collaborating. We have some basic problems with our internal folks and there understanding of these capabilities. Many understand them as “social” computing. This understanding clouds their judgement right off the bat. Social does not apply to work. Tried [...]
Guilty, No Question About it.
March 24th, 2010 Steve Last week, I was out on vacation! The past seven years, I have wrestled with the question – Should you work while on vacation? I have been extremely guilty in the past of doing too much work, while on vacation. I have to think way back, when being connected was impossible to really remember when [...]
Transitions Happen All The Time, So Why Do They Go Badly?
January 25th, 2010 Steve Over the years, I have been involved in many transitions; as a leader coming into a new situation; as a member for a team getting dissolved; as a member of an existing team getting a dissolved team. There is one thing that is definite, they cause all sorts of churn. In these types of transitions, [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: action, communication, fear, Leadership, Leading Teams, people, reflections, thoughts, Vision No 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 »E2.0 – My Short Summary (and Struggles)
November 5th, 2009 Steve I have spent the past 3 days attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. Where I work, we like to sit back and assess where we are (and of course, we like to lead – wherever possible). I plan on posting my complete assessment of the conference in another post… But, first a [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: collaboration, communication, E2.0, fear, social computing, social media No Comments »Observations and Leaders – Do they go hand in hand?
October 28th, 2009 Steve Some of my past posts, I have commented on why I enjoy just sitting back and observing. Hell, I even have a category for observations. Why? Time to tie a couple of my blog categories together. Leadership and the power of observation. Successful leaders need to develop and practice their powers of observation. Few [...]
Posted in Leadership, Observations Tags: communication, goals, Leadership, listening, motivation, team dynamics, Vision No Comments »What Communications?
October 1st, 2009 Steve In this day and age, there are many ways to communicate to others. Thinking back we have land line telephone (some still do), mobile phones and Skype for voice and some video. We have digital everything – choices like email, social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn (some of them have email), instant messaging, texting and Twitter. Now [...]
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 »Ok, The Horse is Dead….
September 4th, 2009 Steve When I was growing up, my dad was full of sayings that just were not very politically correct, but they made their point. One of those, that I believe many pf you have heard before is – “How many times are we going to beat that dead horse?” Happens when someone just keeps harping on the issue [...]
