Feb 29, 2008
The Universe Of Energy!
This one was one of my very favorite all time Ever rides at any park on the Disney property! Brilliant design, the sounds, smells, tastes, emotions were in tune and wonderful! Sulpher, Dinosaurs, the plant life, the mist...Beautiful and scary at the same time...This was truely the Universe of Energy ... relived!
We would hit this ride second only after the Spaceship Planet Earth Globe near the front of EPCOT Center! What an awesome day it always was, always sunny, 70s or 80s and not a lot of traffic...every time we went to EPCOT Center..Fun is the best thing to have, :)
Stephanie Haile Google Me :)
Feb 28, 2008
Wolverine and Jean Grey Video
I visit other blog sites around Blogger and found this outstanding to the 10th power video from YouTube on Hidayahs Blog
What a moving and brilliant emotionally charged video...Take a minute and watch if you are a fan of X-men.
Stephanie Haile google me :)
Feb 27, 2008
Coaches For The Team ... Independently Together
Why Coaching is the Way to Go in Team Management
When you hear the word “coach”, what comes first into your mind? Do you picture a basketball team with a man/woman shouting out directions? Or perhaps a football team with a man/woman pacing to and fro and calling out the names of the players?
Coaching is no longer reserved to sports teams; it is now one of the key concepts in leadership and management. Why is coaching popular?
Coaching levels the playing field.
Coaching is one of the six emotional leadership styles proposed by Daniel Goleman. Moreover, it is a behavior or role that leaders enforce in the context of situational leadership. As a leadership style, coaching is used when the members of a group or team are competent and motivated, but do not have an idea of the long-term goals of an organization. This involves two levels of coaching: team and individual. Team coaching makes members work together. In a group of individuals, not everyone may have nor share the same level of competence and commitment to a goal. A group may be a mix of highly competent and moderately competent members with varying levels of commitment. These differences can cause friction among the members. The coaching leader helps the members level their expectations. Also, the coaching leader manages differing perspectives so that the common goal succeeds over personal goals and interests. In a big organization, leaders need to align the staffs’ personal values and goals with that of the organization so that long-term directions can be pursued.
Coaching builds up confidence and competence.
Individual coaching is an example of situational leadership at work. It aims to mentor one-on-one building up the confidence of members by affirming good performance during regular feedbacks; and increase competence by helping the member assess his/her strengths and weaknesses towards career planning and professional development. Depending on the individual’s level of competence and commitment, a leader may exercise more coaching behavior for the less-experienced members. Usually, this happens in the case of new staffs. The direct supervisor gives more defined tasks and holds regular feedbacks for the new staff, and gradually lessens the amount of coaching, directing, and supporting roles to favor delegating as competence and confidence increase.
Coaching promotes individual and team excellence.
Excellence is a product of habitual good practice. The regularity of meetings and constructive feedback is important in establishing habits. Members catch the habit of constantly assessing themselves for their strengths and areas for improvement that they themselves perceive what knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to acquire to attain team goals. In the process, they attain individually excellence as well. An example is in the case of a musical orchestra: each member plays a different instrument. In order to achieve harmony of music from the different instrument, members will polish their part in the piece, aside from practicing as an ensemble. Consequently, they improve individually as an instrument player.
Coaching develops high commitment to common goals.
A coaching leader balances the attainment of immediate targets with long-term goals towards the vision of an organization. As mentioned earlier, with the alignment of personal goals with organizational or team goals, personal interests are kept in check. By constantly communicating the vision through formal and informal conversations, the members are inspired and motivated. Setting short-term team goals aligned with organizational goals; and making an action plan to attain these goals can help sustain the increased motivation and commitment to common goals of the members.
Coaching produces valuable leaders.
Leadership by example is important in coaching. A coaching leader loses credibility when he/she cannot practice what he/she preaches. This means that a coaching leader should be well organized, highly competent is his/her field, communicates openly and encourages feedback, and has a clear idea of the organization’s vision-mission-goals. By vicarious and purposive learning, members catch the same good practices and attitudes from the coaching leader, turning them into coaching leaders themselves. If a member experiences good coaching, he/she is most likely to do the same things when entrusted with formal leadership roles.
Some words of caution though: coaching is just one of the styles of leadership. It can be done in combination with the other five emotional leadership styles depending on the profile of the emerging team. Moreover, coaching as a leadership style requires that you are physically, emotionally, and mentally fit most of the time since it involves two levels of coaching: individual and team. Your members expect you to be the last one to give up or bail out in any situation especially during times of crises. A coaching leader must be conscious that coaching entails investing time on each individual, and on the whole team. Moreover, that the responsibilities are greater since while you are coaching members, you are also developing future coaches as well.
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Stephanie Haile
www.GenericMLM.Info
Feb 26, 2008
I Post Interesting and Motivational Things :)
Just a note to my friends and readers...
I wanted you to know that I post what is Brilliant, Motivational, Inspiring, Interesting, Well written, Funny, Clever, and Intelligent. I am not endorsing things, just saying SWEEEETTTT! or WTGGGG! or even (my fav :) BRILLIANT! Follow your head, heart, or self when it comes to your purse strings... but learn, learn, and then learn some more. People are clever, brilliant, intelligent, savvy, spectacular, and know a site bit more than I do...:) I think learning should be an ongoing quest...Enjoy;)
Stephanie Haile Google Me :)
Jared J Prazen And Motivation
I found this such a powerful article, I felt compelled to post part of it...For more info on this, click the link below.
How To Change The Tide
Perhaps it's time to ask yourself, seriously, introspectively, whether you have succumbed to the trap of thinking small. Ask yourself whether you have settled for an existence that is far less than what it might be and ought to be.
You can make the decision now to never again be constrained by what others tell you you can't do.
If you've decided that your life should look different from what it now is, then don't let anything get in the way of moving in that direction. Take concrete steps towards your goals TODAY, because that is the only time in which you have the power to act.
Far too many of us will look back with regret on yesterdays in which action was put off until tomorrows that never came.
So, Stephanie, if it means taking more action with your current business then DO IT!
If it means developing skills that have intimidated you up until now then DO IT!
If it means making a change in the vehicle that you are using to get to your objectives then DO IT!
When you decide that you are going to achieve what others say is impossible, and take persistent, undeterred steps towards it, there is nothing in the world that will keep you from eventually reaching your goal.
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help you get there.
All my best to you!
Warm Regards,
Jared J. Prazen
CarbonCopyPRO
How To Change The Tide
Perhaps it's time to ask yourself, seriously, introspectively, whether you have succumbed to the trap of thinking small. Ask yourself whether you have settled for an existence that is far less than what it might be and ought to be.
You can make the decision now to never again be constrained by what others tell you you can't do.
If you've decided that your life should look different from what it now is, then don't let anything get in the way of moving in that direction. Take concrete steps towards your goals TODAY, because that is the only time in which you have the power to act.
Far too many of us will look back with regret on yesterdays in which action was put off until tomorrows that never came.
So, Stephanie, if it means taking more action with your current business then DO IT!
If it means developing skills that have intimidated you up until now then DO IT!
If it means making a change in the vehicle that you are using to get to your objectives then DO IT!
When you decide that you are going to achieve what others say is impossible, and take persistent, undeterred steps towards it, there is nothing in the world that will keep you from eventually reaching your goal.
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help you get there.
All my best to you!
Warm Regards,
Jared J. Prazen
CarbonCopyPRO
Feb 20, 2008
DUPLICATABLE
This is such a "buzz word" in and around the Internet marketing scene. It seems the chant goes "The system must be duplicatable." But, what do you suppose that means?
Let's step back and analyze this duplicatable scenario for a moment. Being an Internet marketer, like yourself, I am familiar with some top names and gurus in the industry. I am certain you could come up with at least a handful of names yourself.
Did every one of these leaders achieve their success with the same tools? The same time frame? Resources? Or the exact same methods? Interesting that should deduce the same answer as I came up with. :)
Now, they did all set goals, have and use a system that each designed to suit their individual circumstances at the time. But, were they the same goals? Or system? Or even circumstances?
Digging a bit deeper into these systems, you will note the length of these time frames are also a bit different. The years spent studying and learning and the individual span elapsed applying this new found knowledge in the Internet marketing scene, constructing their platforms. Take notice too, of the lifestyle differences both before success and after.
The "uber-successful" in Internet marketing today, come from an array of previous walks of life. From the service industry and blue collar workers to upper management professionals and prior brick and mortar business owners. Each having access to different monetary resources and time allotments to get their individual empires growing.
Consider further, and add another aspect of time into the mix. Have you ever heard someone comment, "I wish I had purchased beach-front property in Florida in the 1960's." ? Or the classic, "If I had only bought into Microsoft stock." ?
Am I saying that the ship has sailed? Absolutely not. Am I telling you to throw in the towel? Not in a million years. After ships sail, will there be no more transportation? Not likely.
What I am trying to convey is that these successful individuals are just that. Individuals who had a goal and who also had a plan and a system. A system that they designed from parts of other systems, that in turn, were created by other successful people.
The World, the people in it, and the Internet will change. These changes happen gradually, but happen they must. Look to change, not at it. Changes in systems are openings for our individual windows of opportunity. Our roads to the "uber-successful" highway that is Internet marketing. If we relay the duplicatable scenario as more of a guideline than a rule, with a general series of events and steps, sprinkled with the individually added flare and color of the teachable student, then we will finally squash at least some of the frustration and stress of walking the tight rope without a net.
Stephanie Haile Google Me :) aka Wavecritter
http://www.GoogleMeFast.com
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