My coaching story
I thought I might take a step back today and share my coaching story, so that you get a feel…
Emotional Intelligence and the Integrated Adult
I’ve been thinking a lot about strokes lately (can you tell??) and there are a couple in particular that are…
The Stroke Economy
Your role as a supervisor is to give strokes as you manage your people’s performance. (And when I talk about…
Integrated Adult
I’ve been reading through my notes from my Transactional Analysis 101 course, to develop my own understanding of how I…
Being an adult
So I’ve shared the first draft of the conversation starters, and I mentioned yesterday that we are going to add…
Change of plan
Victoria made a great point yesterday in her comment about sharing the questions with a supervisee before the meeting, so…
Next 3 Conversation Starters
I’ve been out of the office these past couple of days; Monday was a bank holiday for us in the…
Hurricanes, earthquakes and conversation starters
I heard this morning that the East coast of the US is about to be battered by Hurricane Irene. So…
Focus on the positive
It’s dreadful weather here in the New Forest. So bad that I feel my Seasonal Affective Disorder starting early this…
Update on Conversation Starters App
I got lots of feedback from our internal people about the conversation starters app. I’ve sifted through all the great…
Supervisor Apps
Another request…if you use a Smartphone, have you come across any apps on the market already that have been developed…
Conversation starters app
One of the things I am working on is an app that will help supervisors when they go into conversations…
Weekly reflection
I mentioned previously that I’ve been using some of the best practices laid out in the First 90 Days to…
When will you have that conversation?
Yesterday, I asked you what conversation you need to have with your boss that you’ve been avoiding. So now that…
Big Brother is Watching
Since I found out that Don (big boss) reads my posts, I have this little voice that keeps saying “be…
That Monday feeling
I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. Another weekend over and another week beginning. But then I…
