Tag Archive | "learning"

Life

On Nine Years Of Fatherhood15 Jan

Yesterday, Leah – my oldest child – turned 9 which means that I’ve been a father that long, as well. I remember the day when I first learned I was going to be a dad. I remember the terror. I also remember the elation. Talk about your roller coaster experiences…it was like the first [...]
Creative

My Think Different Challenge…Or Confessions Of A Perfectionist18 Dec

I’ve been tagged for the Think Differently Challenge meme by Jamie Notter and it’s one that I’ve been giving some of my best mental energy. It’s a good challenge. Like Jamie, I fully believe that “if you do what you always did, you’ll get what you always got.” So if you’re intent on learning [...]
Work

Build A Learning Culture With Learning Circles09 Oct

Most organizations are chronically deficient at learning and it’s easy to see why. Learning takes time, patience, and healthy dose of curiosity – all qualities that are in short supply at probably 95% of all companies and non-profit institutions. When there is learning, it’s cloaked with best intentions in workshops and other professional development events. [...]
Creative

Three Years Of Blogging And What I’ve Learned Along The Way08 Sep

Lorelle laid out another post in her series of blogging challenges that happens to coincide with my upcoming three year anniversary of blogging. Her writing challenge is: Blog about the path your blog took to get to now. Here’s the possibly boring and predictable chronology, but I’ll follow it up with some lessons I’ve learned [...]
Life

More Things About Me – Texas-Style Edition17 Jul

Irish blogger and friend, Annette Clancy, went and tagged me last week. I don’t always play infotag because I feel like I tapped so much in my original 100+ things. But it’s been a while since I put that together (way back in 2004 and it’s age shows) so…why don’t we add to it and [...]
Creative

WorkPlay Series On Reflection: The Springboard11 Jul

It’s probably my Quaker educational background, but reflection has been one of the best tools in my learning utility-belt. Back when I thought I wanted to teach high school social studies, my college’s rather progressive education department put us raw teacher candidates through a series of intensive learning exercises. One of the very first lessons [...]
Creative

The Benefits Of Competition?17 Jun

Bernie DeKoven at DeepFun.com asks, Must we compete? Perhaps a better question is, When should we compete? I don’t see competition as an all-out negative compared to cooperation. That would ignore the benefits of competition. One way to compete is with ourselves as a way to improve our skills and experience. Don’t throw the baby out [...]
Business

More On Belonging In Organizations15 Jun

In a terrific example of synchronicity, it seems that Annette Clancy, Shawn Callahan, and I were all thinking about the importance of belonging in organizations last week. Shawn offers the perspective that belonging is, at it’s core, an act of social learning. He offers the idea of induction as the first step to belonging: I have [...]
Work

In Service To Our Clients12 Jun

I experienced a moment of lucid learning today that’s well worth sharing. Hopefully, this will resonate with you, particularly if you work directly with customers and clients in a relationship-building capacity. I have a client who is delightful in most ways, but is rarely specific in their requests. They sort of know what they want to [...]
Work

When A Boring Presentation Just Won’t Do25 Apr

I’ve been getting a little bored with the more traditional ways to document and share information and concepts with colleagues. Tables are uninspiring and mindmaps can only take you so far. Sometimes you need a more fine-tuned mechanism to share knowledge. Along to the rescue comes The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods from Ralph Lengler [...]

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I help business leaders and their organizations improve how they relate to their customers, employees, and other critical stakeholders. It’s born out of my belief that individuals crave meaningful relationships and want to be involved with companies that connect with them personally. I’m devoted to helping organizations discover the unique qualities that make them remarkable.

I’m currently a Master’s student at the University of North Texas studying business anthropology.

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