A Success Quote equals Bite-size Coaching
December 9, 2009 by JoAnn Corley
Filed under Employee Motivation, Management Success, Team Management
Ever considered it that way? This is cool management insight!
I love quotes! I have since I was young. I would collect them, make collages of them, and put them on hand made cards for my friends. Whether it’s a success saying or a success quotation – it’s a bite-size form of coaching. It’s powerful information and inspiration in a bite.
Here’s a Management Success Tip: Include quotes in your team culture.
Why? Consider what quotes do…
1. Inspire = motivate
2. Direct
3. Instruct
4. Feed our spirit
5. Stimulate our thinking
…just to name a few and I’m sure you can think of more.
How powerful is it to have just a few words carry so much weight and do so much good! And you know the funny thing?…a new social media phenomena creates a context for that to regularly occur – Twitter.
I am going to be sharing my favorite quotes there, so if you’re not following me…do so! I promise I will not bother you with my personal, inane activities. What I will do is pass on quotes and information that are worth your time and support you in developing the quality life you desire to have. Twitter Web Site
To start, here are a few of my favorites and how they impact me:
Category: Wise & Instructive
Humphrey Bogart once said: “Enjoy the moments, kid, because in the end they add up to a life.”
Coaching point: Live in the moment. Don’t waste your time dwelling on the past or too much anticipating the future. Make the most of now…each now adds up to a life.
Category: Inspirational
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot…and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.” Michael Jordan, American Basketball Player
Coaching point: go after it, plan on loosing a lot to be a winner.
Category: Motivational
“Go big or go home.” Donald Trump
Coaching point: give it all ya got!
These 3 hit me in so many ways….all in just a few words. Join me on Twitter for a regular does of these Power Qutoes!
Remember the success tip...Use quotes in your team culture and to coach yourself
To your success! JoAnn
It Bears Repeating – Facebook Firings are Real
November 23, 2009 by JoAnn Corley
Filed under Career Management, Professional success
So…be vigilant in managing your personal brand on line. See other posts regarding this as well.
It’s a fact – EVERYBODY…every entity, potential employers, work comp lawyers are checking, researching, dare I say spying on you!
It is also a fact that ANYTHING on line about you is fair game.
If you google the phrase “facebook firing,” you’d be amazed at the amount of links that show up.
I want to bring two stories of late to your attention. First a woman whose disability compensation was canceled and a Georgia teacher showing pictures of an overseas trip where she was innocently tasting and drinking wine….and yes ….she was fired for that!
Coaching Tip: Assess the pictures on your site. Is there ANYTHING that could be misinterpreted regarding your employment. Get feedback from others or a career advisor.
If you’d like a independent eye, I’d be happy to look at your site – just contact me here: joann@joanncorley.com
A New Way of Looking at Management
October 26, 2009 by JoAnn Corley
Filed under Career Development, Career Management, Management Training, Personal Management
As we move forward in this “new economy,” I think it would serve us well to give new definitions to many common areas of our professional lives.
One key area of note is that of management…how we see it, how we define it, and our relationship to it.
I would like to propose a new way of looking at management. Here’s what I suggest…let’s look at the concept of management as one in which everyone is engaged…everyone is one and doing it! What do I mean? Upon closer inspection, the word manage or management goes way beyond a title and using it that way limits the use of the potential of every employee.
In fact when you look at the primary definition of the word manage, here is what you’ll find: to handle or direct with a degree of skill. In looking at this definition, you’ll determine that in order to be a successful professional in any content you need to effectively “manage” whatever is required.
Management is not necessarily a title – it is a behavior…a behavior that is done with a needed level of skill…by everyone!
Now with that said, in order to ensure professional success, the question then is what key areas should be considered to be managed…where do the essentials skills need to lie? Here is my core list:
Your ability to manage…
1. Yourself
2. Information
3. Stuff & Work Space
4. Time
5. Priorities
6. People/Relationships (which includes your boss)
7. Your role in a process
8. Your knowledge and use of technology
9. Your career/work-life
In future posts, I’ll expand on each of these and in my Management-in-Minutes Library there are plenty of tips and lessons that will help you build effectiveness in each of these areas. A sample of one is included in the link at the end of this post.
Coaching Tip: Review this list… assess on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest) where you are in your skill set. Where there are gaps, create a PDP (Personal Development Plan) which creates a plan for you to gain knowledge and increase your skills in these key areas.
Here’s a lesson from the Management-in-Minutes Library that addresses area #1 – Managing Yourself. The lesson is entitled: Your Power Point (and that doesn’t mean the slides.)
