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Learn The Delegation Rule
It’s tough enough for some of us to think of ourselves as ‘delegators.’ For some of us it’s perfectionism, and we have a hard time thinking someone else can do something as well as we can; for some it’s relationship skills…we don’t know how to discuss things that are uncomfortable, such as suggesting how to improve performance.
Harder still, though, is remembering that as we are working for someone …
One quick recommendation…
I attended the seminar today of a fellow presenter, Debbie Jones. She’s delightful! AND I spend the day listening to gasps about me that said, “I wish I knew that years ago!”
I don’t begrudge people who work over the telephone doing their jobs one little bit. In a past life as a sales person, I personally sold several million dollars worth of services over the phone in a professional capacity.
That doesn’t mean, however, that a telemarketing call is always a welcome interruption.
Before the tips o’ doom and humor for dealing with telemarketers, a little background for why you listen sometimes.
One, consider the difference between sales people and marketers. Telemarketers …
While I may place some new and significant announcements, I decided that I’m not going to post every gig here. One, the volume of SkillPath appearances is too great relative to how many people I know in Iowa, for instance. Two, private appearances mean nothing to you. Three, you can check my calendar for availability, and for the sake of privacy there will often not be much more than a cryptic placeholder there. Call me.
I haven’t used a screensaver in years, and I’d probably vote that they get a new name (since screens don’t need saving any more) right after I vote that we do away with this daylight savings time nonsense.
BUT, for Dilbert lovers, this is pretty amusing.
In Jay Cross’ Informal Learning blog he shares a way of looking at learning that I like…
“Learning is that which enables you to participate successfully in life, at work, and in the groups that matter to you.”
Besides being more benefits-oriented than ‘the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, or study, or being taught,’ it implies something I’ve been teaching for years.
“Knowledge is power” is misleading. It’s like storing up money or a pile of building materials. …
In a recent article in Marketing News, a publication of the American Marketing Association (yes, I’m a member), Marilyn Kennedy Moats makes a keen suggestion in her column about careers.
Always solicit negatives.
I think that there is wisdom in this idea and that it renders three personal benefits:
1. You really do have a chance to improve. (If you’re not a lifelong learner, you probably won’t get much out of this blog!)
2. You have a chance to get more …
I hope you know this, but if you EVER publish you’re email address somewhere on the Web, you WILL get loads of spam. Crooks send out “bots” and “crawlers” and various programs designed to harvest any and all email addresses, and once you’re on one list, you’re only going to get on more as they steal from each other.
Here are two easy ways to thwart the evil:
1. Write it out. “roger at sign roger courville dot com” …
