Following Your Wellbeing North Star
Originally posted on http://wholelifewellbeing.com/ Desiring wellbeing is one thing – attaining it is quite another. I’ve spent my entire career helping people achieve what seems impossible, but is only difficult, and lately I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to help people achieve wellbeing. It seems to me that my own sense of wellbeing is created by two main factors: 1) My circumstances, and 2) my expectations. When circumstances exceed my expectations, wellbeing increases. When they fall short of my expectations, wellbeing suffers. So one obvious way to improve wellbeing could be to lower expectations. While that might not sound like an appealing solution to everyone, let’s give it a little thought.Continue reading
Whose English is it Anyway?
Originally published on CareerShorts.com where Kimberly has been invited to contribute blogs periodically on global leadership and project management.
My work takes me from my home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where more than 50% of the people living here don’t speak English at home, to Japan and elsewhere around the world nearly every month. I have the distinct honor and pleasure of working with people from all over the world, and recently had an incredible adventure with 37 people from 12 different countries who all came together as a global team to propose the future direction of their company. It’s an incredible experience to work with such a diverse group, and a heck of a challenge due to the most basic of reasons – we all speak different languages.
Even though all members usually speak some version of “English”, it might as well be Klingon. Continue reading
Common Sense Produces Uncommon Results
Originally published on CareerShorts.com where Kimberly has been invited to contribute blogs periodically on global leadership and project management.
Did you know that there are 192 countries recognized by the United Nations and a total of 233 listed on Wikipedia? You may not even have heard of the smallest ones, some of which have less than 1000 people. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with human beings from over 50 countries during my career. Although I’ve discovered many fascinating differences among them, and many delightful common human traits worth celebrating, I’ve also unfortunately found that we share a couple of fundamental tendencies that get in the way of our ability to achieve our goals:
Unclear Goals
Unclear Communication
Unclear Priorities
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