Karl Edwards presents Working Matters

Tag: learning

  • Listen In -> Recovering From Bad New Year’s Resolutions

    Now that January is about over, is the same true for your New Year’s resolutions? All those bold decisions, ambitious plans, and good intentions from 4 weeks ago… If they’re scattered around your feet as just so much discarded failure or discouragement, then this is the podcast series for you!

    Claudia Rempel is back in the studio with her flair for getting to the core of issues. Instead of getting caught in a pattern of make-a-resolution -> break-a-resolution each year, we discuss ways to redeem this tradition and turn it into a useful change tool.

    In this series we will look at four types of resolution makers:

    1. The Sweeping Changers
    2. The Don’t Bother Cynics
    3. The Half-Hearted Intenders
    4. The Rigid Disciplinarians

    Each approach has a downside that sabotages our desire for change. But each approach has an upside that we don’t want to lose track of either. Join the discussion as we have some fun getting inside why change is so hard for us.

    Listen in.

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  • Question of the Week

    What are two examples of when being flexible has served you well? Let you down? What leadership lessons can be garnered from each?

  • Question of the Week

    What constructive and acceptable means do your employees have to give you feedback about your leadership effectiveness?

  • Do Promotions Make Perfect?

    Why won’t my new boss ask for help? He is obviously in over his head.” If you are like most employees, you’ve wondered about your newly promoted boss before.

    Of course, she can’t yet know what she’s talking about in certain areas. But you understand those areas. You could help if only she talked to you before making some of her decisions, before it is too late.

    Scary, eh? Would you believe most people feel they have to continually prove they deserve leadership? As much as we want and expect to be promoted, very few of us feel we deserve it. Instead, many leaders are plagued with doubt. Will I be able to (more…)

  • Focus In On That Fog

    Many people cannot “see the forest for the trees.” Not me. I have trouble seeing the forest because I also see the meadow and the skyline and the distant skyscrapers and all the people rushing to work and the implications of global warming and the hope of world peace… You get the idea.

    Learning to focus has been a personal goal of mine for longer than I care to admit. I hope to experience it at least once before moving on to experience the infinite. I’ve even tried tying my ankles to the chair in order to see a project through to completion. But then I just made a mess when I hobbled over, chair in tow, to refill my coffee mug.

    Focus is hard because the world is a busy place. How do people know exactly what deserves (more…)

  • Everyone a Lifelong Learner

    Humans are changing, developing beings. This fact applies to the professional journey as much as to any other area of life. In order to have everyone on the team stay engaged, challenged, and committed, their positions, roles and responsibilities need to grow and develop as they do.

    If you’re feeling bored, stuck or like there’s no where to advance in your firm, you are experiencing the growing pains of “growing up” in your field. You need to learn new things, deepen your skills, expand your responsibilities.

    Very few of us are content with doing the same thing year in and year out. What are you learning this year? Who on your team is displaying symptoms of needing change? How might you interpret such hankerings as a positive opportunity for the firm?