written my good friend by Kimberly M. Wiefling, M.S. of Scrappy Women The “Talk of Kindness at Work” Used to Make Me Wretch, Okay, okay, I’ll admit that I’m not the nicest person on Planet Earth. Kindness – An Essential Skill. According to the quiz based on Dr. Bob Sutton’s “The No Asshole Rule”, courageously hosted by Guy Kawawsaki, I’m 12.5% nasty – and that’s on a good day, when not … read more..
Take 30 with Kimberly about what she is going to talk and offer at the Kindness@Work Conference happening January 26-28th, 2021. Her view point is about helping organizations create higher employee engagement, by giving one of her work shock classes. I have experienced them, it’s quite amazing that within 30 to 60 minutes how everyone is closer feeling better connected to the people in the room. Listen to … read more..
The mystery of kindness is that many people like to promote it, share it, however they themselves may think it doesn’t work, so they don’t practice it. I took on a job for a few months the girls in the office are young, they for some reason seem to think if they assert themselves as bosses it positions themselves as in authority. They are rude, they don’t use … read more..
6 Lessons in Treating People, Sheryl Curtis sent this to me. Very good ideas to help us or how we can do better ourselves. First Important Lesson – Cleaning Lady.During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read: The last one: “What is the first name of the woman who … read more..
It’s happening again! the Kindness Matters Conference, got a great line up of speakers ready to go, resources for you to help you to get kindness in action. Of course we’ll be adding a couple more speakers.. just confirming the last few. This time it will be a 3 day event, just with 12 speakers rather than 22. My goal is to do them 3 times a year. … read more..
Suffering from ADHD? Many people do and there is nothing wrong with you, you just operate a little differently. It’s key though that you get tested. Meet Dr. Jamie Vasilyan, specializes in Hypnosis for ADHD. After recovering from ADHD as a child, he decided to work with children who are autistic, kids who have ADHD. I interviewed him last week, if you want to know more you can … read more..
It’s not my job. – You’re right! I’ve only seen “kindness” in one job description and that was for an organization called “Think Kindness” being kind is easy. Kindness might even be too touchy-feely for some companies to talk about, but at least one CEO says that they encourage their employees to be kind to one another. “I’d feel uncomfortable.” – When I hear anyone using this as … read more..
Kindness an essential skill when working with Humans. From traveling around the world over the past seven years this has caused me to become a kinder person. Another floggin’ noggin’ article written by by Kimberly M. Wiefling, M.S. re-published with permission, from the Scrappy Women group. Something about watching an accomplished senior professional struggle to express a simple business concept fills me with a desire to treat them … read more..
