by Esther Derby | Mar 8, 2007 | Collaboration & Teams
I wrote a little article on dealing with co-workers who annoy you. (Not surprisingly, the solution starts not with the co-worker, but with you.) by Esther Derby | Feb 26, 2007 | Collaboration & Teams
Every so often, the Prime Directive comes up on one of the lists I follow. And inevitably someone says something like “I don’t believe everyone is doing the best s/he could. I know I don’t always do the best job I could.”There are a couple of... by Esther Derby | Jan 19, 2007 | Coaching, Leadership & Management
Earlier this week, I posted a bit about barriers to effective listening. Two days later (conincidentally) I received an email from my friend Janis Aaron Moore. Janis was a programmer for years, and has recently gone back to college, where she’s doing the college... by Esther Derby | Jan 15, 2007 | Coaching, Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
My teachers in school and at university spent lots of time and effort teaching me how to speak and write effectively. I didn’t get much instruction during my school years on how to listen effectively–mostly my teachers told me to “sit still and... by Esther Derby | Jun 28, 2005 | The Rest
A while back, Slacker Manager bemoaned micromanaging colleagues who over use “call colleague X” as thier next action (a la David Allen). And that got me thinking about saying No. Most of us are inclined to accept any task that comes our way at work–...