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Wheel of Balance for Job Performance
My Time Management
Satisfied with My Job Performance
Staying Organized
Timely with Duties and Projects
Get Along with Collegues and Clients
Clear about My Role and Duties
Satisfied with My Team Participation
Staying on top of email, voicemail
This wheel is from exercises in the book, “Co-Active Coaching, New Skills for Coaching People Towards Success in Work and [...]

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Wheel of Project Assessement
Sample project segments to balance a project (click for wheel):

cost

meeting milestones

tracking status

team

clients/customer

sponsor

issue resolution

quality

The concept of a wheel as a tool was adapted from the book, “Co-Active Coaching”.
I added the idea of using it to get a quick assessment for a project and the eigth project slides.

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Sample life segments to keep in balance (click for wheel): 

money

family

fun and recreation

physical environment

job/career

personal growth

health

friends

This wheel is from exercises in the book, “Co-Active Coaching, New Skills for Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life“, by Laura Witwroth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandal.

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Sample segments to balance for a management and leadership (click for wheel):

organizing and staffing

planning

budgeting

controlling

promoting order

promoting change

setting vision

aligning people

motivating and inspiring

This wheel is from exercises in the book, “Co-Active Coaching, New Skills for Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life“, by Laura Witwroth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandal.  
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The Harvard Business Review Article, “What Makes [...]

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Awareness Tool

Answer these questions with YOU, A Person, A Group, or Situation, relevant to a particular area of interest.
What others know and what you know?
What others know and what you don’t know?
What others don’t know and what you know?
What others know and what you don’t know?                       
Here is a sample about given presentations:
What others know and what you [...]

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To increase Awareness:
1. Improve your Listening Skills.  Do you listen for facts and emotions, to summarize or to marshal your own facts arguments and have your voice heard?
2. Know how to give and receive useful feedback.  Useful feedback is specific, descriptive, measurable and timely.
3. Be curious.  Ask open ended questions, ask for clarity, ask for [...]

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Resume Hints and Tips

The amount of information available for job seekers in cyberspace is overwhelming.
Here are some of the helpful recommendations I send to job seekers when they ask for help:
Top Ten Resume Mistakes that Turn off employers:
http://www.boston.com/bostonworks/galleries/10_resume_mistakes?s_campaign=8315
 
Resume Tips from a top industry recruiter, Bob Eiland:
http://www.egselite.com/resumetips.html
Six words that make your resume suck:
http://www.squawkfox.com/2009/01/19/6-words-that-make-your-resume-suck/
Then if they ask, I give them [...]

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Beliefs about time and what works to successful manage it is different for everyone. This makes teaching time management a challenge.   Traditional time management tools are very linear, left brain.   The USA corporate world is very linear; the standard time management tools work well in business.   Many right brainers, non-linear type people just can’t get [...]

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