Great Circle

“What happened to this month? I’ve been busy but I don’t seem to have accomplished anything!”
Ever felt like that? It can be the same feeling about a year, a week, a day or even a morning. Sometimes when you look back at that period of time, does it feel like someone stole the time away? [...]

When supervising others (be they paid staff or the unpaid volunteers who help in the school office), there comes a time for confronting and challenging their behaviour. I found a terrific article online which gets inside the situation and gives some nice short sharp “how-to’s”, such as specific behaviours (and missing behaviours) to focus on.
It [...]

Parent, do you catch yourself making that age-old complaint: “Why don’t kids come with a manual!”?
Well I ain’t got the manual but the link below gives you a pretty good start on one.
101 Tips for Improving Children’s Behaviour 
Well worth the time browsing through the articles and links.

My wife Janine was making a great point the other day. In management herself, she was describing how – as a manager – it’s easy to make the demand that other workers comply with your own pet hates. In other words, those pet hates of the manager begin to take the form of regulations in the workplace.
She [...]

In fighting fire with fire, be careful you don’t become an arsonist.

Your head feels like a small town in America’s Tornado Belt. Twisters keep coming and going. Thoughts whirls at hundreds of miles an hour, damaging some of the structures that kept reality nice and tidy for you. You are at that place again where it has become impossible to control the energy of the demands, the expectations, [...]