I don’t generally admit this in public, but I am a computer gamer. Â Yes – ultimate geek, I know. But that’s okay. There are many interesting things about the game, but this week I attended our Chamber meeting and the speaker was talking about motivation. Â I started to think about things and the motivations to do things in game. Â Now normally with a game you have the motivation to “win”, to accomplish tasks, and to do things with your friends. Â When I first started playing this game, characters had the option to buy or find pets – strange little creatures that would hang out with you and really served no purpose other than be there. Â One of my friends and I loved the pets and collected as many as we could store. Â My husband did too. Come to find out, so did a lot of […] Continue reading
Thinkers and Doers – Different Work Styles
It is so weird how things come up in themes for me. Â Recently, several meetings I’ve attended had speakers who have said everything happens twice; once in your mind, and then once in practice. Â When the first person said “everything happens twice” my first thought was he was going to talk about how to get things right the first time so you don’t have to screw it up once. Â So imagine my surprise when it wasn’t a criticism, but a positive! In my second encounter, the person who said it then followed up with a description of a program he put together. It was amazing to me because what he was saying was he THOUGHT about each step of the project but what I and another woman in the group heard was DO. Â Two different styles that are so ingrained we couldn’t even hear it […] Continue reading
LISTEN FIRST – then talk
Don’t let it happen to you! Listen to your clients before you ever pitch anything.