In 1500 words or less, each post will give you something you can use TODAY to build yourself, your people and your organization whether your organization is a "for-profit" or a "not-for-profit."
Inflation, shrinkflation, rising costs are hitting everyone from all sides. This is a short guide to some simple tools that everyone can use or share with someone who could use a little help making their food budget work.
Please take a few minutes and see what you think, if you have your own ideas to share, please add them to the comments.
Recently, I listened to a story about how an entire generation of students are writing exams for the first time and that inspired me to write this post about how to prepare and write an exam. Whether you are one of those students; a high school or college student, or a professional preparing for a course exam; there should be something in this post to help you.
Safe, affordable housing for everyone. Many people talk about affordable housing, but few really define what that is.
Unfortunately, safe and affordable housing simply doesn’t exist for many people. It is difficult enough for the average person or family, for vulnerable, low-income people and families the potential of homelessness is very real.
This post is intended to help navigate the very Darwinian market of housing supply and demand. In a small way, it might help to illuminate some of the questions, workarounds, solutions, and resources that are available to help.
Few teams in high school, college/university, and even in the work environment currently apply project management skills to everyday assignments and projects.
These skills can make a difference, eliminate frustration, and help transform groups of individuals into high-performance teams. These skills work on large construction projects, software design projects, and on any academic and work projects whether they are large or small.
What is a team charter? It is a building block. It is an interactive and inclusive tool to give people in your organization the freedom, the space, and the ability to get things done.
I will not pretend that this post has all the answers. But in this post and in my other posts, you will find places to start. These posts all share three common themes, one is that you or your organization can start today, all they require is a change of thinking or a change of process and finally, the cost is virtually zero.
Learning “how” to fail might just be the most important skill that doesn’t get taught to students. As an instructor or leader, I always hoped that everyone would always succeed in everything they tried and never experience failure.
I knew and continue to learn that avoiding failure is unlikely and not always the best thing for people. Take a few moments and see what I mean.
There are best movie lists, best music lists etcetera. With my university and college-age kids home for the holidays, we decided to make a list of “good things” to know. Each of them lives away from home and we started talking about things that “would have been nice to know” when they moved away. Whether going away to school or moving out on your own, these were their thoughts.
Budgeting and watching your finances depends on the money coming in and going out. Everybody makes mistakes, I did, and you likely will. Learn as you go and try to avoid the obvious things. Keep these lessons in mind and make sure that you enjoy your college/university experience.