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New Year Day 2019
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N ew becomes old
E very day.
W e know it and continue on.
Y et, we hope change can occur; it’s
E asier said than done. We
A lways try and this year Iet’s take the
R isk to move forward for your own self-development.
Happy New Year this 2019 as you Choose Who You
Want to be Known As. All the best,
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive Coach
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Halloween to YOU Too!
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Halloween is a calendar date that always brings whimsy into our lives. Here is an anagram for this calendar event:
How often do we have
An event where all ages
Learn to have fun and
Laugh.
Of course, it’s Halloween.
Whether we dress up or not,
Everywhere you look, people
Escape into this moment of fantasy,
Now and forever. . . ©Jo Ann M. Radja
Choose Who You want to be Known As — Life is Good
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October 17th is Global Ethics Day with Anagrams…
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This following is a Blog written by me yesterday at LinkedIn Pulse: https://t.co/BydZhCrpyl
The ethics of wizards are very much like the ethics of people in our real-life world of work. There is a spectrum of admirable, acceptable and unconscionable conduct to be seen. TOM MORRIS*
Last week I attended a Conference sponsored by Convercent. It was called CONVERGE 2018 – Ethics in Action. The primary attendees were Ethics Officers in a multitude of industries, who enjoy life just as we do. No matter what profession you have, continuing to learn and being agile are necessary requirements for positions people hold today. Since October 17th is Global Ethics Day, I would like to share a few anagrams with you as follows:
E.arnestly listening, it became clear
T.hat the speaker told the truth.
H.e said what for many of us was not in our future.
I.t was necessary to pivot in order to
C.hange our path. Be guided by integrity and who you are
S.o the judgments of others won’t keep you from your Purpose. ©Jo Ann M. Radja
E.arly is better than later, he was
T.old. Reading the proposal, questions
H.ad entered his mind. An
I.nvestigation was necessary to
C.arefully uncover what the truth was.
S.o grateful for the advice to read the proposal early. ©Jo Ann M. Radja
E.arly Friday evening she heard,
T.hat’s her – and she was called a b___h.
H.e continued in bad form a few minutes later.
I.t’s always surprising how often you need to
C.ontrol your reaction.
S.o the situation is diffused and not reactive. ©Jo Ann M. Radja
Ethics to YOU Too!™ as you enjoy this Wednesday at your chosen profession.
Here in Chicago, it is Ideas Week. During a presentation yesterday, at 600 South Michigan Avenue, the Leo Burnett Company sponsored an Event entitled, “Creativity: What Comes After the Spark.” An artist from The Ink Factory created the following Poster© I hope you will enjoy it’s content:
Life is Good – “Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive Coach
- Morris, Tom. If HARRY POTTER Ran GENERAL ELECTRIC. Page 106. A Currency Book Published by Doubleday (2006), 252 pages.
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What’s Your Philosophy – On Mature Expectations?
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. William Hazlitt
We smile as we read text describing the difference between the use of “a” and “the.” It happened to me as I read a four-page paper by Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, entitled, “Mature Information Societies – A Matter of Expectations.” Mature_Information_Societies_a_Matter_of
Floridi’s premise is that “a” is more appropriate when discussing the digital information society because it refers to groups as opposed to “the,” that references one. Digital bandwidth itself, all over the world doesn’t provide a basis to judge the benefit of information to society. Rather, it is the expectation of information that drives education, understanding and innovation for each country’s philosophy of life. Expectations are viewed as mature when balanced by an acknowledgement that all people in the society may not be able to share your specific expectations. In other words, the right to expect more is coupled with knowing everyone may not equally be able to share in the output of digital information.
From a business prospective, companies work daily through expectations they have for their customers, their employees and stakeholders. Mature societal expectations point to three avenues, according to Floridi, as follows:
a) Education – Creates awareness of your own assumptions and expectations; Allows for justification, reasonableness and historical determination of your expectations.
b) Understanding – When society implements a particular right of use it recognizes deficiencies associated with the right of use.
c) Innovation – Mature expectations assist in creating informative actions, ordinary vs. extraordinary, normal vs. abnormal.
The philosophy of digital information results in mature expectations for the common good. Haven’t we all asked one or more of the following questions: How will this benefit the customer? Why are we moving foward on this project when the risk evaluations are not yet completed?
It’s time to recognize we all have a philosophy for the common good developed on the back of digital infrastructure. As you Choose who YOU want to be Known As in whatever societies you participate in, consider your Expectations for what you give, what the other person gets and what benefit is provided. Enjoy the upcoming weekend!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
When Mindfulness leads to Emotional Intelligence. . .
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At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit. Chip Conley via Brainy quote.com
Over the past few days, I’ve read a number of blogs from Social Media Influencers and Government Leaders. Stories emerged of how dysfunction not only causes breakdowns in communication but reason takes a backseat at a place of work. We may become a bystander to a discussion that causes us to become very uncomfortable and we don’t wish to enter the “fray.”
Some four years ago I was attending a Networking Event and was participating in a conversation between two men who were consultants. One man was from the East Coast and the other lived in a Chicago suburb. Another man, unknown to us, walked up and asked if he could join our group. We welcomed him (the black coat man) and he asked me about my business – that conversation led me to give him a sample coaching session. The man was eager and surprised himself by telling me something he had not told his wife; he was uncomfortable with the disclosure and decided to walk away. The two consultants offered that I shouldn’t have given my time to someone who clearly wasn’t appreciative of joining our discussion group.
What happened next was an example of personal mindfulness. The black coat man walked around the room and said to more than a handful of people, “You see that woman in the red jacket [meaning me] she won’t talk to me.” People began to ask, “Do you know that man?” It was unclear to many why the black coat man continued his pointing at me and saying she won’t talk to me.
Mindfulness allow you to become aware of your surroundings, what you are thinking, what you are feeling and what these sensations mean to you at that moment. Emotional Intelligence is a learned process where mindfulness forms the basis for you to manage yourself and by doing so, manage others. As you manage your emotions you are able to assist someone else likewise. Put another way, you observe what is happening around you, describe what it means to you, accept that someone else has something going on causing a disturbance, don’t take it personally and don’t become judgmental. While it may seem like a balancing act between your mind and your heart, in fact, it is a process that allow you control over how you are in the moment. The image above displays the end result of mind and heart balance – when you are comfortable in the emotional intelligence realm.
Emotional intelligence is a process and it most definitely can be learned. How you act in the moment is what I call, “Choose Who You Want to be Known As.” Since today is the last day of June we have another beginning in our imperfect world tomorrow on July 1st. Have a great month of July in your chosen career path!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
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Valentine Day Week Thoughts…
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Originally published on 02-10-13………
Valentine Week Thoughts. . .
After a lengthy meeting, we
Listen to comments from our Team,
Eager to put everything into perspective.
Now another opportunity presented itself
To try a different approach.
It’s what we wanted. Yet,
Now that it’s an agreed plan by all,
Everyone wants another meeting in an hour to
confirm the plan in writing.
Decisions are made daily.
And we learn to trust ourselves and others. . .
You too may learn to trust yourself and others as you
Choose Who You Want to be Known As this week.
Happy Valentine Week Thoughts! ©Jo Ann M. Radja
“Taming the Judgment”
This post was originally published on October 24, 2014 by the social media platform LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141024202444-32215190-weekend-thoughts-taming-the-judgment?trk=mp-edit-rr-posts
“Weekend Thoughts — Taming the Judgment
A few months ago, I finished reading a book by Margaret J. Wheatley: Turning to one another. Simple Conversations to restore hope in the future (2009). Ms. Wheatley follows the principle of Occam’s Razor – the simplest answer appears to be the right answer. What’s the simplest task we all share – communicating. “It’s not the differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do.” If we think about the last time we may have rolled our eyes or became quiet while listening to someone, what judgment did we have that caused the rolling of the eyes or the quietness. How did that emotion (underlying judgment) stop a positive conversation from beginning or continuing?
Let’s face it. We sometimes are not at our best in handling a situation. I may be biased because I like Chicago Pizza more than New York or California Pizza. Yet, I can appreciate and learn the uniqueness of each presentation of Pizza and the different ingredients. Once we recognize the bias for what it is, it helps to tame the judgment directing our actions, to allow an
open conversation to understand another’s perspective. Mr. Wheatley’s Turning to One Another is an enlightening process of understanding ourselves more than we might initially realize.
As you Choose Who You Want to be Known As, when a recent conversation didn’t go as well as you may have wanted, consider what you wanted to have happen. Was there an underlying judgment you may have had about the subject matter, or how the other person spoke or presented his viewpoint? An unconscious judgment can be tamed, once we identify it. The issue becomes, do you want to? How will it help you as you manage your career? ”
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When YOU least expect it…
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intelligent life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It continues to give me pause of the biases people have, based either on age or appearance. Each generation often greets another generation with surprise, rather than acceptance of what knowledge/skills they have. I experienced this phenomenon again yesterday when a person couldn’t believe that I passed an exam, because her unconscious bias placed the biggest look of surprise on her face I haven’t seen in a long time.
Positive outcomes during the day often balance the negativity we may experience. It is a work in process to learn how not to take certain actions personally or become judgmental of what may be said. The daily balancing of our soft skills is the platform for managing ourselves and others in our career path.
Surprising ourselves with what is curious could be a mantra that leads us to self-development. As you Choose Who You Want to be Known As this week, when you least expect to — have fun practicing the element of surprise of a curious situation.
Enjoy your day!
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Impossible fun . . . with curiosity
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It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
Earlier today I published a post on LinkedIn Pulse with the Title of The Three R’s. http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/three-rs-jo-ann-m-radja. Here is a modified version of that post.
A man in a creative job had been working on a new project. He submits it to the client and a discussion ensues. Even though the project was deemed unacceptable for the marketplace, he believed the discussion was fair. It was such a shock and a setback to subsequently learn his staff was hired away from him (except one man) by the company who deemed his work was out-of-fashion. This story occurred sometime during the 1920’s. Whether it is a myth or a restatement of history, unfortunately, this story rings true for many people.
The terms of reinvent, re-engineered, retooled or right-sized were not spoken in this creative man’s era; his story has universality for us today, some 90 years later. What Walt Disney did with his one employee was to collaborate and re-work his original drawings. Mickey Mouse was then born and introduced to the community. Many of the action terms we use today – customer driven, vision and focus, brain-storming new ideas and visualizing real-world activities for the new character – took place in the development and implementation of the Mickey Mouse character.
How quickly do you rebound from a serious let-down? What did you tell yourself to regroup and continue on? Did you re-frame the situation or just recognized perhaps the timing was all wrong? Stating these questions another way: What feedback did you receive that continued the spark in you to recognize, relate and resolve your actions to the next step? How frequently do you rely on YOUR three R’s As You Choose Who You Want to be Known As?
During the month of October, I hope your three R’s work to your best advantage as you recognize, relate and resolve.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja Executive and Career Management Coach
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