I love talking to people with vision. To be able to see where we could go and what we could do is a wonderful trait. Years ago I took an assessment that helps determine your role in a team (it is called Role Based Assessment and it is pretty cool) and it said I was a “vision-mover”. That makes total sense as I often understand where someone is trying to go and can help them get there. But to have that original idea of where we could go? I don’t get to have that often so I LOVE talking to people who do. I’m lucky to know many. This week I had lunch with someone I don’t know well, but who clearly has vision. He was able to succinctly articulate his vision for our school system. It was awesome. I immediately understood what is possible […] Continue reading
Knowing Your Roles
We all occupy so many roles – in just one day for my clients I am counselor, adviser, tech support, strategist, researcher, brainstorming partner, copy writer, website designer, programmer, designer, and friend. And then I go home to be a whole host of other roles. At some point, it is important to look at those roles and determine which ones are appropriate to your business, which ones make you unique and which ones is it time to dump. For instance, I do not ever market myself as a tech support rep because I am not doing it every day and therefore don’t have the up-to-date knowledge I would need to do it as well as I used to handle it. On the other hand, my role as counselor is one that means my clients call me for more than just the immediate project need which […] Continue reading
Scheduling and Rescheduling and Canceling
Struggling with how to explain this to someone I don’t know well. A couple weeks ago I received an email from someone who wanted to schedule a “pick your brain” session. And we all know how I feel about those (see “Brains Are Not for Picking” on that topic. I’m considering republishing it as “You Aren’t A Zombie – Stop Picking My Brain!”). But this is a new person and I don’t know him at all so I agreed. We chose a Wednesday for lunch. My daughter wanted to have a friend over and I thought it would be fun to have them go to lunch while I was at my meeting – get them out of the house, etc. So we planned that with the other mom. Tuesday this person calls and needs to reschedule so we move it to Thursday. I get it […] Continue reading
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