Project managers don't have the market on efficiency, but they do have insights on how to juggle multiple responsibilities, adjust to evolving complexities and reach mission objectives. Emotional intelligence as it relates to working with diverse people within a team is an essential skill when developing positive dynamics. As outlined in our recent article published with Project Management Times, If you have dysfunction in your team, the cost may be higher than you want to admit but the cure may also be closer than you realize. Our article entitled The Cause, Cost And Countermeasure To Conflict In An Organization discusses ideas for understanding sources of conflict as well as how to reduce and resolve these issues.
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So many people are asking for more positivity in their lives, it just so happens that there is a website committed to that purpose - The Daily Positive. Our second article has been published with this outlet, Lessons From Noah On Vision And Endurance (HERE). "The Noah narrative may prove helpful to the aspiring entrepreneur as well as the modern leader navigating the troubled waters of managing with vision, maintaining the elusive work-life balance and living a life of purpose." You can read this article, our previous article How To Identify The Right Mentor (HERE) as well as many other offerings on the TDP website. Young, Fabulous & Self Employed Magazine (YFS) has published my article, Team Dynamics: When Smart People Act Stupid In Business. If you want to be young, fabulous and/or self employed you should not be stupid and can start proving such by reading this article. [Excerpt to wet your mental appetite] As a leader or manager (or whatever crafty title you’ve come up with to make corralling employees sound less bureaucratic), understanding and succeeding with humans will always be an evolving process. Too often, smart people act in very stupid ways when dealing with others. Read more in this article by Jon Isaacson published in Young, Fabulous & Self Employed Magazine (YFS) - HERE. Let me know what you think. Let YFS know what you think. If it is helpful or inspirational or infuriating, share that too. Keep #DoingGood things. My first pitch of 2017 has been picked up and published. You might say that free Lance is the best Lance that I've known, but to be honest I would really enjoy meeting paid Lance. Paid Lance is the Lance that I hope to meet this year. God has a sense of humor, of this I am convinced. I don't want to call it a resolution or even a goal, but I am making a conscious effort to be more positive day to day. As it turns out my first article published for this new year was picked up by The Daily Positive and for this we LOL. You can read How To Identify The Right Mentor by Jon Isaacson HERE. To wet your appetite for the casserole of creativity that this article will unleash, enclosed is an exclusive excerpt: Successful professionals understand the importance of learning the hard skills of their chosen craft. But when it comes to management skills, the value of mentorship is often forgotten. Mentoring is a relationship of purpose wherein Professional A enlists Professional B to assist in his personal and/or professional development. Mentorship is broad and unique to the various industries and stages of professional development. If mentorship were an actual ship, what would that sea craft look like and how can individuals apply this to their search for the right mentor? Thank you for reading in 2016, hope you all have a fun and fulfilling pursuit of joyfulness in 2017! |
AuthorThoughts on personal and professional development. Jon Isaacson, The Intentional Restorer, is a contractor, author, and host of The DYOJO Podcast. The goal of The DYOJO is to help growth-minded restoration professionals shorten their DANG learning curve for personal and professional development. You can watch The DYOJO Podcast on YouTube on Thursdays or listen on your favorite podcast platform.
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