What's Your SocialStyle?
A week or so ago, I took a series of leadership and management training courses where I work. One of the tools we used was the Tracom Group's Social Style Self-Perception Questionnaire. It's all of 30 questions -- you have to select one of two options that detail how you see yourself interacting with the people in your life.
Posted Tue Mar 25, 2008
Finally, Myers-Briggs!
You'd think I'd have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment by now, eh? Not so! But because I'm on a bit of a self-improvement kick so far this year, I decided it was high time. So this afternoon, I took the test through PersonalityDesk, which also offers several other assessment tests -- and perhaps more attractively, a telephone or email discussion of your results.
Posted Sat Feb 16, 2008
Office Furniture Porn
The new edition of Design Within Reach's Workspace catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. And I felt like I was receiving a porn magazine. The catalog is as well designed as anything they sell, and I'm slightly ashamed of our Allsteel Inc. cube farm -- we couldn't have gone with Herman Miller, even?
Posted Wed Feb 13, 2008
Lesson One: Show Up
Last week, I got a phone call from the assistant for someone I didn't know. Apparently, he's a member of an organization I'm active in -- and he was calling area members in order to meet them and gauge whether there were any connections or synergies.
This person also appears to sell insurance, so I was somewhat skeptical, thinking that this was an easy way to check out potential sales leads. Regardless, I agreed to meet him for coffee yesterday afternoon.
Posted Tue Feb 12, 2008
Free to Freecycle
Some of the best tools are extremely simple and functional. And lately, I've been enamored with the Freecycle Network, a loosely knit group of people around the world who are dedicating to reusing cast-off items -- and thereby reducing the amount of waste they create.
Posted Tue Feb 12, 2008
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