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Value Your Month for One — You
Values equip us and energize us. We have a 7-letter acronym within the Managing with Aloha philosophy: VYMTVYL. It stands for Value Your Month To Value Your Life and refers to the value of the month...
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Reckoning with Role [to Value it.]
Jim Morrison said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” I daresay...
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Validating Achievement with MWA Coaching
I will be writing about the achievement of Kūlia i ka nu‘u for the next issue of Ke Ola magazine (which will be published and distributed November/December 2013) and article done, I find I’m still...
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Holiday Zing-ing, inspired by Kūlia i ka nu‘u
I was very cheered by this message, emailed in response to my last post (Just 5 Over the Holidays, 2013) “Rosa, one of the most useful things I’ve learned from your Managing with Aloha blog over the...
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Curate, and Be Curated
Have you cracked open that gorgeous new journal you got for Christmas? The clean slate we get each January, is an opportunity for managers to employ start-fresh record-keeping. In this era where a...
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Curating Value Alignment
When I urged you to “Be a curator” as opposed to a documenter, I was primarily focusing on how we as managers can begin to curate work performance with the objective of strength-building: Curate, and...
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September Cheer, Kuleana, and ‘Ike loa
September’s ‘Lovely Tokens’ Wonderful thought, isn’t it? (Found it on Pinterest.) I do hope your 3-day weekend was spent collecting and appreciating your own “lovely tokens” too… wouldn’t it be great...
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November and the Gratitude of Mahalo
I know that several of you have turned our November/December Value Your Month to Value Your Life value pairing of ‘Ike loa (the value of learning) and Ha‘aha‘a (the value of humility) into a triplet in...
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Weekend Reading for your ‘Ike loa Value Immersion
Here are links to a few articles I’ve found in my web-surfing recently, each with intriguing connections to what we talk story about in Managing with Aloha. I’m not going to tell you exactly what they...
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The connection of Faith and Learning
Inspirational quotes are seen everywhere: What do people actually do after reading them? Let’s read one, and see what we can do, as the Alaka‘i Managers we are. Alan Watts has said, “Irrevocable...
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Nothing’s Final in the Managed with Aloha Workplace
Next, not Final: “That’s final!” is a phrase you won’t hear an Alaka‘i Manager say. They are more inclined to say, “Let’s try this, and then let’s follow up with each other again once we have a track...
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1 Book, 10 Years, and the Thriving Aloha of Grassroots Work
Let’s celebrate all our good work! We’ll be having cake with our morning coffee at Say Leadership Coaching. Can you join us? Hau‘oli lā hānau – Happy Birthday Managing with Aloha! Today is Managing...
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Looking back to Hō‘imi Forward
A year-end Exercise in Positive Expectancy Hō‘imi is another Hawaiian value, one that blends parts of Managing with Aloha’s ‘Imi ola (create your best possible life) and Ka lā hiki ola (hope, promise,...
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Desk time, Face time, Ho‘o time
What else might be involved in your Winter Readiness as a manager (or as someone learning to ‘live, work, manage and lead with Aloha’)? In looking back to Hō‘imi forward, it might be a useful exercise...
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Speaking with Aloha: Be an ~INGer
In Speaking with Aloha, we continue to be ~ingers. An ~inger is a doer. The magic sauce of Managing with Aloha is in connecting our values to dynamic verbs that will drive better behaviors, our actions...
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On Trend: Your Values, 2016
Sweet, sweet beginnings! It’s that time of year when I’ve historically sent you missives that are fresh round-ups of, and new check-ins with, our 19 values of Managing with Aloha: e.g. 2015: Goals...
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Curating Value Alignment
When I urged you to “Be a curator” as opposed to a documenter, I was primarily focusing on how we as managers can begin to curate work performance with the objective of strength-building: Curate, and...
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