My focus for this final post on the soft skill of personal management is on multitasking. Multitasking is exactly what it sounds like – trying to do more than one thing at a time. How many times have you heard a colleague proclaim that they are great multitaskers? Many of…
The Power of Flow: A Personal Management Soft Skill
Have you ever had those moments when you are involved in an activity and time just seems to have flown by? Maybe it was sitting at the piano, painting, a challenging chess match, or reading a really good book. Maybe you were playing a sport and everything was working—every pass…
Is Professionalism a Soft Skill?
This is the second in a series of posts exploring Soft Skills and why they are so important to your success in any endeavour. “Soft Skills, or the ability to manage soft issues, is a challenge for modern leaders to master” Aly Moreno I received a…
Blogging for that AHA moment…
This post marks one year since I made the personal commitment to write a weekly blog – and I have done it! It is really great feeling to know that something I decided to do, despite little experience, has been accomplished. To boot, I never missed a week (even during…
Making a list and checking it twice…
I was coaching an individual recently who was trying to figure out how to use her time more wisely, to stop procrastinating and get a clear vision of what she needed to accomplish on a given day. She had tried creating lists, setting each day’s goals, etc., but nothing had…