For some of us, work performance begins at home. Are you taking care of yourself? Are you asking for what you need? Are you having the good, real discussions with your life partner that insure you are fulfilled and whole, working on the priority issues and both pulling in the same direction? In other words, are you doing life planning?
Life plans put work plans into perspective. Karl Umble likes to say that the goal is less about balance and more about "harmony." And the skills are essentially the same for both: the ability to plan well and then push through to execution, to work the plan into existence.
As the skin horse says to the velveteen rabbit, it takes a lot of love and attention to go from a stuffed toy to being real. In this respect, the velveteen rabbit is in line with a long stretch of work on authentic leadership, the notion that leaders have to let their personality come through the role to be maximally effective. They have to be present and real.
Last word is this: congratulations Anne on your wedding-- great team!
-- Steve Orton
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Thanks, SteveO!
I love the comment about how Management Academy students see improvements in their professional and personal lives. One aspect that is important to MAPH participants is the completion of an Individual Development Plan (IDP). We encourage each individual to develop targeted learning priorities related to skills that they wish to improve on. These skills can be related to work, such as planning meetings, speaking in public venues, attending courses related to finance, etc., but we also encourage them to consider those personal skills they want to develop. For personal skills, we have had participants focus on health related issues, the balance of time management and family responsibilities,increasing time devoted to physical exercise, etc.
These created IDPs are then living documents that participants update throughout the 9 month program.
What do you plan to improve upon durign the next 9 months?
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