It’s a brisk Sunday morning in the Midwest on this 4th Day of Christmas, here are a few “nuggets” of weekend thoughts:
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or makes you happy.” Anon
http://www.fastcompany.com/3031530/hit-the-ground-running-6-steps-to-turn-strangers-into-connections
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach & Change Agent
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It’s the 3rd Day of Christmas and I hope you enjoy one or more of the following links: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/pictures/141220-reindeer-animals-christmas-science-cultures-herders/
Enjoy!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach & Change Agent
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Chicago Children’s Choir 2014 from FoxChicago
It’s the 2nd day of Christmas and I wanted to share with you a few links you might enjoy. Greetings from the Midwest!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/augustturak/2014/12/24/a-christmas-parable-on-leadership/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/trulia/2014/12/17/13-holiday-party-hacks
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach & Change Agent
I hope you enjoy a Blog I wrote today. The Social Media platform of LinkedIn published it early this afternoon at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/grab-bag-reach-%22jo-ann%22-m.-radja. Here it is for you to read:
“Is a Grab Bag a REACH?
We’ve all experienced being a member of a holiday grab bag at the office. Often times we opened a package and received what we wanted; othertimes, we did not. Personally, I like to be surprised because the grab bag is really a sharing event:
* Price is limited –
* Ingenuity comes into play –
* Shopping time to research where to find the item –
* We allow someone else into our lives to learn about us –
* We learn a bit about the other person –
* Our unconscious bias tugs at us if we are disappointed how our request was interpreted –
* We may have lost sight about what the grab bag was really all about; and
* The culture of your team or department may also strongly influence whether grab bags are even permitted at the office.
Engagement and appreciation is what everyone strives for in an office. This time of year offers options and opportunities for creativity if your office grab bag has lost its luster or meaning. Even if grab bags don’t happen at your place of work, there is a cultural office tradition during this holiday season. Since every employee benefits by at least one day off for during this holiday season we share equally in the culture of the holiday.
What can you do to reach out to someone to include them in your office culture tradition? How open are you to understand why it may be important for another employee not to participate in the office tradition? What form of engagement or appreciation are you expecting during this holiday season?
As You Choose Who You Want to be Known As during this holiday season, consider reaching out to understand – to engage – to appreciate someone else at the office and it will come back to you, when you least expect it.
Have a great career week!
‘Jo Ann’ M. Radja, Career Management Coach and Change Agent”
Happy Saint Nicholas Day! From the Third Century up to today, this day is celebrated throughout the world. A wonderful explanation of St. Nick is provided under the heading beginning with Albania at this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas_Day
St. Nick’s kindness was extended to children, sailors and voyagers, during his lifetime. Everyone of us is enveloped by that sense of kindness. Be kind to someone during this holiday season to feel the goodness it brings back to you.
Enjoy. “Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach
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I’ve hear it say that “People have a short memory.” Democrats would hope that is true as well as the Chicago Bears. The Democrats felt it last week when the election results turned sour for many. Watching the Chicago Bears yesterday, you felt it as well. We winced, we can’t seem to watch it, any more than that moment, a minute or the next few hours.
We have great empathy for well-known groups of people who are having a really bad time of it when they stop competing as a group. We may take it for granted that unquantifiable circumstances led to a poor showing of their performance. We wince with pain during our lives and following a public blow to our ego. Yet, failure breeds a new determination to try again. Like a Phoenix – life anew rises above the ashes.
If we were in the shoes of a public faux pax – we would be grateful for a mindful perspective. It would – to be observant, to be descriptive, to act, to be non-judgmental and to take it on the chin. Yes, we winced in defeat but it’s not over yet. Guy Kawasaki’s wisdom may come into play – “A good idea is 10% implementation and hard work and 90% luck.”
As you Choose Who You Want to be Known As this week, consider how you dealt with a career move that you wished didn’t happen. How did you turn it around? Have a great week!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach and Change Agent
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Although it’s not Spring, our Building Management has asked us to consider disposing of unnecessary paper during a semi-annual shredding event. I was surprised to uncover some Notes I kept from my position in Legal Management when I attended … Continue reading
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Earlier this afternoon, I published this post on the social media platform, LinkedIn – Enjoy your career week!: “During this past weekend, I visited the Prairie Avenue Historic District of Chicago. I joined other Alumni for a tour of the … Continue reading
Here’s a Post which was published by LinkedIn.com within the past half-hour.:
“Have you ever been told, “That’s not what you are supposed to do. That responsibility belongs to someone else.” While you may have a Title for your position, it doesn’t necessarily explain what you actually do. A Form usually relates to one thing and a Function relates to the activity of a specific Form.
The answer may lie in what binds the Function to the Form, whether by a job description, perceptions, testimonials or accomplishments. As we begin to think about our upcoming Labor Day – how would you describe what you do – is it Form over Function or Function over Form?
What do your customers expect from you. . . Function or Form? How often has it happened to you that you visit a retail store and what you wanted to buy is not sold by the Form name of the retail store? Perhaps you contacted an Accounting firm, only to learn that the specialty service you want to hire is not found within the firm’s members? Form over function sounds simple, but it isn’t.
Another way of looking at form over function and function over form is to consider the word “feedback”. Is feedback just a comment or response, or your understanding of what was said, or advice, or an opinion or a demonstration of your listening skills? While you may have merely given encouragement to someone’s decision, it was received as advice, which was not your intention. Perhaps this topic is another puzzle for us to work out in our careers because we live in a fluid, every-changing world.
Consider as you Choose How You Want to be Known As, what is your answer to the Form or Function question. Have a great day!”
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Since we are not perfect, we often place stress on ourselves when we don’t fully understand what happened following a “blip” in our careers. Was it a mistake or a … Continue reading
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