My Twitter Feed- TabithaDunn: @MKCallConsult Awwwww... thank you for the #ff! January 27, 2012
- TabithaDunn: @Turntablez We will - we are going to just chill at home (games, movies, family time) the best January 27, 2012
- TabithaDunn: @Turntablez Thank you for the kind #ff. I hope your week was a good one :) January 27, 2012
- TabithaDunn: I'm so happy it's #ff @MKCallConsult @maldyj @jeanniecw @Turntablez @bobehayes @Natasha_D_G @KateNasser Have a great weekend, all of you :) January 27, 2012
- TabithaDunn: @Turntablez I hope you have a good weekend as well - no more packing :) January 20, 2012
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Category Archives: Work
Happy in your job or making the right hiring decision
I am fortunate to be doing what I love and really enjoying the people and the culture of my company. Like most of you, I have had jobs where that was not the case. In fact, I’m willing to bet that some of you reading this are in that type of job right now. How do we go from being excited about a new job to wondering how we can get out?
The Power of Reflection
Setting aside time to reflect gives you the opportunity to see how things fit together and identify gaps. This nothing new, right? You know this, have experienced it, whether it was in your personal life or work life or both. So if we know it, have felt the benefit of it, why is it so hard to do? Why do we feel compelled to fill up every precious waking minute with a task? How many of you feel the impulse in an idle moment to pick up your Blackberry or iPhone (or similar item)? Do you ask yourself why? I do.
Posted in Agency, Authenticity, Balance, Self-Clarity, Wholeness, Work
Tagged insight, Reflection, thoughful
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Time for planning
The business planning cycle I have gotten used to seems to be one of good intentions but just slightly off. I have had the good fortune to see this planning cycle work the same at more than one company. I ask myself this (and you, of course) – is this cycle a necessity or can it be successfully improved upon? Here’s the one I mean – it starts with budget time (where you hope you have a solid long range strategy to lean on). It’s approximately mid-summer. Now, for some it actually starts a bit sooner or a bit later but I picked a mean. You haven’t solidified your plan for the next year yet but you have the framework, so you can put together the money. Then year end hits (for those of you on the calendar fiscal year, which is quite a lot of you) and everyone is focused on that. Come January, you hope to have a finalized budget and plan for the year. That is always the goal. It’s part of why you start the budget cycle early, right? But how many of you make it to the goal line of early January? Part of that is because you need to see how year end close went but there are often other factors that get in the way. So you may not have a final plan and budget until February or even March. It’s a crazy cycle – shampoo, rinse, repeat! Every year this happens, everywhere I work or where my friends and colleagues work, it tends to happen. Does it work better where you are?
Posted in Authenticity, Balance, Leadership, Work
Tagged Balance, Change, Leadership, Work
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2009 – Kicking off the new year
The holidays are over and I am back to work after my longest vacation off in my working history. It was lovely but it will come as no surprise to those close to me when I mention that I managed to snag an awful virus and was sick for the whole two weeks. I am still dragging through the dregs of it… All of that aside, it was a lovely and quiet holiday, filled with family time and I treasure the opportunity I had.
Posted in Balance, Customer Experience, Loyalty, Vacation, Work
Tagged Balance, Customer Experience, Loyalty, Vacation, Work
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One more day…
I have a lovely, long holiday planned with my husband and daughter. Sixteen days off. A rare thing in my life. Normally, I only have a week off at a time (total of nine days), so this rarity will be something to treasure. I’ve spent a fair amount of time the past few weeks encouraging my team to do the same. For a Customer Insights organization, the end of the year is not a crazy one like some parts of the org, more a time to wrap up projects.
Posted in Balance, Customer Experience, Family, Health, Vacation, Wholeness, Work
Tagged Balance, Customer Experience, Family, Health, Vacation, Wholeness, Work
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Flexibility and work
Today, we get a call, bright and early from my daughter’s new pediatrician’s office letting us know there was a cancellation in the schedule tomorrow and could we please move our original appointment for our daughter’s annual well child from January 2009 to tomorrow. Now, to put this into perspective, we don’t know this doctor yet, that’s part of the plan for this visit. And now, we have a last minute switch. Well, I am a fortunate woman because my husband is a fantastic stay at home dad but there’s a line here right? What things are musts vs. nice to have when it comes to your child’s life? It’s not a lack of trust in my husband, it’s really about wanting to be present for certain things. So what do I do… I frantically go through my afternoon schedule and beg for patience while I reschedule the block of time so I can be there. Because it’s important to be present as part of the balance, in my view. Some choices and tradeoffs have to made, I know that but this time, I was lucky, because I could manage the last minute reschedules – next time I might not be so lucky. But for this week, I made it.