Posts Tagged ‘Daily5Minutes’

When a Clarifying Question Isn’t

Recently an area director for a non-profit asked me if I would do a Malama session for a work team that was struggling to communicate with each other. He valued everyone on the team individually, however he could see that together they were not very effective.

Malama is the value of caring, compassion, and stewardship I speak of in Managing with Aloha. In a Malama session, we ‘talk… » Continue

March 15 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: conversation, D5M, Daily5Minutes, listening, Management, questions | no comments»

Learn to Finish Conversations Well

We managers can get ourselves into far too many situations where we unwittingly set others up for disappointment because we haven’t learned to finish our conversations well.

Last week I encouraged you to add The Daily Five Minutes (D5M for short) to your management toolbox because it creates more workplace conversations. The intention of the D5M is to give your staff the gift of your attention, five minutes on… » Continue

March 8 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: agreement, clarity, Communication, conversation, D5M, Daily5Minutes | 2 comments»

The Daily 5 Minutes; 9 Questions

After reading my article here last week, and clicking through some of the related links to find this one, a Lifehack.org reader sent me an email with this request;
“I notice you mention the Daily 5 Minutes pretty frequently, and seems you’ve written a lot about it. Can you point me to one how-to kind of post that I can share with the rest of my managers?”
I didn’t have… » Continue

March 1 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: Communication, D5M, Daily5Minutes, habits, workflow | 1 comment»

Great Managers End Censorship

In this, the alive and well revolution of blogging and print-on-demand publishing, censorship is something we think of as very dark ages; surely it doesn’t happen anymore!

That may be true in the freedoms of your personal, unshackled life, but how about at work?

The freedom of self-expression is one we say we cherish most of all, for we are sensitive, intelligent, and thoughtful human beings. We know stuff. We represent. We… » Continue

January 18 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: conversation, Daily5Minutes, freedom, learning, listening, self-expression, voice | 1 comment»