(325) 439-0212Sally Love, President of Paragon Worldwide, has authored and published numerous articles on Leadership, Management, Personal Effectiveness and Project Management. Many of her articles are provided below for your reading pleasure. We encourage you to use Ms. Love's articles in your workplace, just please give credit to Ms. Love as the author.
A couple of months ago, in a moment of weakness, I let a couple of young friends (much younger than I) talk me into running a 5k race on Thanksgiving Day. You've likely heard of these Thanksgiving races. This one, like many, is called the Turkey Trot. The premise is that you show up early on Thanksgiving morning, run the 5k and then eat guilt free the rest of the day.
The waitress appeared at our table and announced that the restaurant had just run out of bread. How an Italian restaurant could possibly run out of bread is a mystery to me. I mean, really, everyone expects delicious bread when dining at an Italian restaurant.
You selected the most impressive and highly talented individuals to comprise the "A" team for the company's most important project. These star performers, you believe, can achieve ANYTHING! This is a sure thing.
I love this time of year. Seems just about everyone is excited that school is starting back – the parents because they have run out of interesting ways to entertain the kids, the teachers because they are excited to have a fresh new set of students to teach and even the kids because they get to see their friends everyday!
It was a typical Wednesday morning. Typical, that is, when I am not traveling. I was out for a morning jog on our ranch here in West Texas. I was jogging on a very familiar road on the ranch. The weather was warm, the sky blue and everything was wonderful. Wonderful, that is, until I encountered the RATTLESNAKE!
Our oldest grandson, Braden, is playing baseball for the first time this year. He is 6 years old. Soon to be 7 – a fact he is very proud of. His first game was Saturday and it was AWESOME. It was more fun than I can possibly describe.
Here is the situation. Your organization continues to have safety incidents, even though you have preached often about how important safety is. So... you instruct your Safety Director to scrap the old safety training course and spend a bunch of time, energy and money developing a "new improved" safety training course.
It's that exciting time of year – NCAA Basketball Tournament time. Have you noticed the tremendous amount of encouragement basketball players get? They have numerous coaches, thousands of screaming fans and enthusiastic cheerleaders at the game. Plus they have tons of support in the living rooms of die hard fans around the world. No doubt about it; basketball players get a lot of encouragement.