Karl Edwards presents Working Matters

Category: Working Matters

  • Karl Shares Six Words… #36


    Look busy! Hungry watchdog prowling nearby.

     

    Karl Edwards

  • Quote to Consider: I Wonder Why

    quote-to-consider“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

    William Shakespeare

  • Karl Shares Six Words… #35


    Avoiding rejection by not requesting permission.

     

    Karl Edwards

  • Quote To Consider: What Do You Mean… Can’t?

    quote-to-consider“Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”

    Russell W. Davenport

  • Karl Shares Six Words… #34


    Found him hiding behind the budget.

     

    Karl Edwards

  • Loving Monday: Who’s Setting the Tone If You Aren’t?

    loving_mondayWho’s setting the tone at work today?

    Anyone?

    If someone isn’t setting the tone intentionally, then it is probably being set by the first three things that happen this morning.

    Should the first three things that happen be an unexpected deadline change, an angry client, and an assistant gone AWOL, you’re in for a rough day!

    What if, though, you set the tone for your day? What if you were to choose—before even arriving at work—what sort of attitude, perspective and demeanor with which you were going to approach your day?

    Instead of waiting to react to whatever might be going on at the office, you would be taking the initiative to be one of the actors that everyone else reacts to.

    You would be taking the initiative on your own behalf and also on the behalf of the entire office culture.

    In this scenario, when the unexpected deadline change gets announced, the angry client yells at you, or the assistant goes AWOL right when you needed their help, you will deal with these unfortunate and difficult experiences from the healthy, positive, and constructive frame of reference you chose earlier.

    It’s your choice either way you look at it.

    You can choose to let circumstances set the tone for you, or you can choose the tone from which you will set into the day’s circumstances.

    Which brings us back to the original question: Who’s setting the tone at work today if you aren’t?

    On your side,

    – Karl Edwards

    Loving Monday is a weekly column designed to encourage us to step into our weeks with an intention to show up authentically, engage fully, and choose to make it a good week for ourselves. Explore past columns here.

  • Complicit In My Own Diminishment?

    Bold Question MarkTo what extent might I be selling out my own dreams, ideals and unique capabilities in order to impress prospective employers?

    “Part of the price of becoming a transaction is that we allow our value to be defined by others: an organization, a boss, a recruiter, a partner, a lover.” Peter Block

  • Karl Shares Six Words… #33


    Idealism and practicality conspire before dawn.

     

    Karl Edwards

  • Quote to Consider: The Clever and The Fools

    quote-to-consider“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

    Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  • Karl Shares Six Words… #32


    First agenda: twelve items, one completed.


    Karl Edwards