Category Archives: Self-Management
March 25, 2013 – 10:06 am
Emotions in the workplace: You may not like them, but they’re there, all right, and you can’t get rid of them. “Feelings and emotions” reminds me of those “ring around the collar” ads for Wisk back in the ’70s: “You’ve tried soaking them out and scrubbing them out, and still you get” feelings and emotions, [...]
March 19, 2013 – 10:02 am
Anyone who says feelings have no place in the workday might as well say that breathing has no place in the workday. A human without either one is a corpse. The feelings are there. Feelings are facts. And just like any other facts, they have to be taken into account so that you can make [...]
Tagged behavior, data, emotion, emotional intelligence, leadership, management, performance, relationship, self-awareness, self-management, self-observation
It’s so much easier to critique what you can see than it is to conceptualize something that doesn’t exist yet. Our ideas of the future are often vague, as if we’re trying to throw together a complex clay sculpture without an armature. Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it [...]
February 26, 2013 – 10:02 am
There’s always another point of view. In old fables about whether any specific event or circumstance signifies good luck or bad, the moral always depends on your individual context and outlook. I’m interested in hearing your point of view on the following story. Do you see a definitive right and wrong? Or a “righter” and [...]
January 22, 2013 – 10:03 am
If you suspect you’re an excessively reactive manager (see last week’s post, How to Work with Over-Reactors, Part I: Driven, Hard-Driving Managers), you may wonder how to slow things down to help yourself work more effectively and not disrupt your team so much. And you may worry how you can feel good about slowing things [...]
Tagged awareness, behavior, change, leadership, management, over-reactors, relationship, self-awareness, self-management, self-reflection, teamwork
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Liz Alt Kislik is President of Liz Kislik Associates LLC. Liz brings more than two decades of customer-focused management experience to businesses of all sizes and segments. She helps managers address complex organizational problems, particularly in the areas of customer care and employee performance.
