Tag: Emotional Intelligence

The Roadmap for Distributed Work

Mike Skibbe (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m Watching: My coworkers on GoToMeeting What I’m Reading:  Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami What I’m Listening To:  Home Office DJ on Apple Music A small percentage of LocalGov entities had work from home policies.  I looked longingly at those beacons of modern management philosophy.  Two things have happened.  … Continued

From Mission-Vision-Values to Why We Exist

Mike Skibbe (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m Watching:  Pocoyo (a delight of a kid’s show) What I’m Reading:  Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami What I’m Listening To:  Still Untitled, the Adam Savage Project Why does your department exist? It’s not an existential crisis.  It’s Friday and nobody has time for an existential crisis at work. Mission, … Continued

The State of Employee Performance Evaluations

Mike Skibbe (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I’m Watching: Street Outlaws (It’s like real housewives, but car guy drama) What I’m Reading: Bringing Out The Best in People, Aubrey Daniels Are performance evaluations still broken? When searching this topic at ELGL, the last post seems to be from five years ago. The frustration of evaluations not … Continued

Bring Your Audience With… Another Life Preserver

  Mike Skibbe,  Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Watching: F1 German Grand Prix: Chaos in the Rain What I’m Reading: The Five Disfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencione What I’m Listening To: Criminal Episode #119: Using a concrete Budha statue to reduce city littering! One of my favorite Morning Buzzes (Buzz’s?) was Will Hampton’s … Continued

Healthy Innovation

  Mike Skibbe,  Twitter and LinkedIn What I’m Watching: Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Netflix) What I’m Reading: The Advantage by Patrick Lencione What I’m Listening To: The Dollop Episode 15: Ten Cent Beer Night Executive coach Peter Burchard once told me that Cubs legend Ernie Banks* used to walk into a business and could … Continued

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