Players vs. Pretenders
I recently read an interesting article from the John Maxwell Company that offered some great tips on identifying who your players on your team are versus who are the pretenders. Pretenders look the part and talk the part, but fall short in fulfilling the part. They can disrupt your entire team. Pretenders put their personal agenda before the team. Check out these tips to distinguish between the two.
1. Players have a servant’s mindset; pretenders have a selfish mindset. Players do things for the benefit of others and the organization, while pretenders think only of benefitting themselves. A pretender… Continue reading
Commitment
Following is a blog from last October. A few things have happened lately that sent me looking for these thoughts. I hope you'll enjoy them again.
I’ve long believed the universe sends messages to each one of us everyday. Lots of times we don’t notice them or believe they are messages. Sometimes they are too strong to ignore – because they keep repeating themselves. During the last three days I’ve gotten the same message three times, in different forms. I was wondering why I was getting increasingly annoyed until I linked all three together. They were examples of commitment –… Continue reading
Stuck?
We all tend to get stuck in certain thinking patterns. Our beliefs can become concrete truths in our minds – yet may not be based on facts or reality. These ideas can limit so many things in our lives and take away “possibility”! Our self talk centers around “I can’t possibly do that…” “I could never….” “That’s impossible….” “It will never work….” Following are some tips about getting unstuck.
Tip 1: Challenge assumptions. Consider putting your assumptions aside. Or better yet, assume you can do whatever you’d like to do. Once you put aside the “why you can’t” and replace… Continue reading
What’s new?
Every year when Labor Day rolls around I return to the feelings of excitement I had growing up. School was starting and I’d see friends I hadn’t seen over the summer. I’d have some new clothes to wear and new school supplies. I would have a new class schedule, new subjects and new teachers. The newness of it all was something I embraced every year.
Keeping an element of the new is important to me. My mind continues to be challenged, I may have new ideas and thoughts because of it. Certainly my experience expands. I resist falling into the… Continue reading
Some thoughts on email
by guest blogger – John Zimmerman
It had been four years since I last held down a full time press position—I was Public Relations Manager for the National Association of Federal Credit Unions from 1999 to 2005—and now faced, on my first day as the National Credit Union Administration’s (NCUA) contracted Public Affairs Specialist, an inbox that scared me. I had never seen so much email that ipso facto I not only needed to read and digest, but to respond.
I pick up things pretty quick, especially when a pay check is involved, and learned to manage, more or less,… Continue reading
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