Leadership Solutions

Do You Take Breaks?

It's time for a nap.

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American Avocets taking a nap.

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Taking a break is useful. It refreshes your thinking and makes you more productive.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Nature Photographer

PS I need help. More birds lead to more photos. See and share: Help Birds

 

Story Behind the Photo

Here is a photo of a Pied-billed Grebe.

And here's the story.

While walking through Craig Regional Park, I noticed a man with a pair of binoculars.

(Note: If you see someone with binoculars in a park, the person is most likely an avid birder.)

So I asked him what birds he had seen.

He told me that (among others) he had seen a Pied-billed Grebe in the lake.

From far away, this bird can be mistaken for a small female duck. It can also be difficult to find because it will dive under water for as long a half a minute searching for fish. Then it surfaces long enough to catch a breath, and disappears for another swim.

After a bit of searching, I found it. The bird had just caught a fish. (Gulp)
 

After that I took about 200 photos from different positions.

And I kept three, which include these two.

The Point:

1) Asking for help makes you more successful.

2) Diligent effort produces better results.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Nature Photographer

PS I need help. More birds lead to more photos. See and share: Help Birds

 

New Holiday

Here's a novel idea.

Let's declare a National Holiday to celebrate compassion.

You must know that compassion is feeling empathy for others (rather than for oneself).

During this day we will:

1) Recognize that everyone is doing the best that they can.

2) Acknowledge that others have feelings.

3) Accept others for who they are.

In fact, here's a really novel idea: Start now by celebrating compassion everyday.

Today's Task: Work on perfecting compassion.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Speaker, Meeting Facilitator, and Author

714-528-1300

How to Manage Advice

Here are two steps to managing advice.

1) Collect as much as you can.

2) Then do what you want.

Why?

First, advice can be useful if it makes you think. It may contain valuable ideas.

Then, recognize that no one knows enough about your life to give accurate advice. Thus, most advice will be useless.

Consider: Accepting advice does not mean that you have to use it.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Speaker, Meeting Facilitator, and Author

714-528-1300

How to Be a Coach

All good coaches use this approach:

A coach leads from behind by engaging clients in a dialogue that helps them identify valuable choices.

Thus, a coach never tells a client what to do or what not to do.

If a coach were to use such an approach, then the coach would be responsible for the client's results.

Key Point: A coach helps others discover the way to greater success.

Much success,

Steve Kaye

Speaker, Meeting Facilitator, and Author
714-528-1300

Small Recommendation

Here is an excellent book.

It's "The Power of Small."

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval provide many valuable ideas mixed with memorable stories.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Speaker, Meeting Facilitator, and Author

714-528-1300

What's Wrong With This Meeting?

Are your meetings like this?

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   1) Too many attendees (Willet, Marbled Godwit, and one American Wigeon)

   2) Wrong attendees (The meeting was about laying eggs. None of the males needed to be there.)

   3) Late arrivals

   4) No agenda (Birds don't know how to write - but you knew that)

   5) No minutes

As you might expect, they accomplished nothing during this meeting. It was the classic bad meeting.

Steve Kaye
Nature Photographer

PS I need help. More birds lead to more photos. See and share: Help Birds

 

Double-crested Cormorant

Here's a photo of a Double-crested Cormorant.

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PS I need help. More birds lead to more photos. See and share: Help Birds

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Best wishes for a wonderful holiday.

All the best,

Steve Kaye
714-528-1300

PS: Tomorrow I'll post a photo of a Double-crested Cormorant.

How to Restore Order

There was a lot of noise at the pond.

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Then management arrived.

Much success,

Steve Kaye
Nature Photographer

PS I need help. More birds lead to more photos. See and share: Help Birds