Assessing Your Relationship – Audio TidBits Podcast
How are you and your child getting along with each other? For the following questions, is the answer almost always yes, usually yes, sometimes yes, seldom yes, or almost never yes? As a guide, rate the question as "5" if your answer is almost always yes. Put 4 for usually, 3 for sometimes, 2 for seldom, and 1 for almost never. (If your child is too young for the question to apply to your relationship, just skip that question.) Are you responsible and fair when disciplining your child? Do you know what your child needs and what is important to him? Can you get your child to cooperate with you without your getting frustrated or upset? Do you spend time every day talking or playing with your child? …
The Game That Has No Name – Audio TidBits Podcast
Once upon a time an eon or so ago, or maybe it was yesterday, I’m sure I myself don’t know, in a far far land a galaxy or two away, or perhaps it was just next door, It’s not for me to say, Three young space beings were enthusiastically playing a game, but unfortunately for our story, it was the game that has no name. Do you want to play? Don’t be too quick to jump in. You may want to listen to this episode before you commit.
Positive Organizational Scholarship
Cameron, Kim S., Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn. Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2003. For the sake of contrast, now imagine another world in which almost all organizations are typified by appreciation, collaboration, virtuousness, vitality, and meaningfulness. Creating abundance and human well-being are key indicators of success. Imagine that members of such organizations are characterized by trustworthiness, resilience, wisdom, humility, and high levels of positive energy. Social relationships and interactions are characterized by compassion, loyalty, honesty, respect, and forgiveness. Significant attention is given to what makes life worth living. Imagine that scholarly researchers emphasize theories of excellence, transcendence, positive deviance, extraordinary performance, and positive spirals of flourishing. Specifically, we define authentic leadership in organizations as a process that draws from both positive psychological capacities and a highly developed organizational context, which results in both greater self-awareness and self-regulated positive behaviors on the part of leaders and associates, fostering positive self-development. The authentic leader is confident, hopeful, optimistic, resilient, transparent, moral/ethical, future-oriented, and gives priority to developing associates to be leaders. … The authentic leader does not try to coerce or even rationally persuade associates, but rather the leader's authentic values, beliefs, and behaviors serve to model the development of associates.
A Quick Tidbit – Caution
We learned it in grade school: take your time and check your work.
Aliens, Mental Illness & More Fake News – Audio TidBits Podcast
This is just a quick post to let you know that it has turned out just as the Aliens Amongst Us said it would. They have captured the Aliens Amongst Us feed and are using it whenever they choose. Please listen and hear for yourself.
Depressed? – Audio TidBits Podcast
Depression is not a topic most of us like to think about ...
