IF you want it today,
then ask for it yesterday,
and you will have it tomorrow.
Too often, employees will come in with an absolute last minute request for some support they need right now, that they have been meaning to get too. The urgency of yesterday becomes the emergency of today. With the final consequence that today’s tasks now becomes tomorrow’s.
And tomorrrow is always one day away.
This week looks to be a lull between storms. Better described as the eye of the storm between the turbulence of last week and the planned chaos of next week. Last/This/Next – a subsetrinity of Time/Space/Place.
I am benchmarking this theme off of The Cynical Girl – Laurie Ruettimann’s weekly Sunday post titled The Week Ahead. (Benchmarking is acknowledged idea plagiarism.)
Per the weather forecast, at least Monday & Friday are carpool days. Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays will become extended work hour days to catch-up or at least not fall further behind.
Monday/Tuesday equals weekly attendance review blended into payroll processing on Tuesday. Midday Tuesday is the HRASMaine monthly meeting with the topic being Best Places to Work. Wednesday afternoon is to be spent at the division in the next town over doing Safety, miscellaneous HR and an employee meeting. Thursday/Friday remain yet to be revealed and discovered. The time in between is for project tasks.
Projects @ work:
1. Affirmative Action Plan
1.5 Archive 2010 files
2. Annual group insurance renewal – set-up
2.5 Implement 2011 File Plan
3. Best places to work planning
4. That state report that floated down from the ether
Projects @ Public/HRASMaine:
1. Wild Apricot 30-day test, stress and trial
2. HRASM Treasurer – really a series of weekly, monthly and annual transactional tasks
2.1. Post weekly transactions
2.2. Prep signature card supporting correspondence
2.3. Renewal write-offs
2.4. Reconcile February
2.5. Report February
Projects @ Personal:
1. Phippsburg September 2011: Continue LightRoom 30-day trial
2. Built-in closet
I have learned over time to divide projects into unique and discrete tasks. This is a major component of my Strategic Time Leadership model that remains under reflective development.
For example:
• Built-in closet, yesterday, I made three pedestal feet out of white birch lumber – measured and cut width and length, cut the round ‘toes’, sanded to same size, routed the rabbit joint and finished with the ogee bit to add a flair/profile.
• Wild Apricot – I drafted and emailed a comprehensive 30-day test, stress and trial plan to the working group members.
• AAP, I am populating the testing spreadsheet one column at a time while concurrently building up the HRIS tables for future repeatability.
This week ahead I expect to
• Built-in closet: Buy, cut and mill the front pieces for the uprights.
• HRASM Treasurer: Get the new officers on as checking account signers
• AAP spreadsheet completed and turned in the service provider.
Sleep not when others speak,
sit not when others stand,
speak not when you should hold your peace,
walk not on when others stop.
~George Washingoton~
This sustains rapport with those that are present.
Stay awake to pay attention.
Match body language with reflective style.
Others, all others deserve your full attention, all the way to the period. Silence your inner voice until the pause of ending punctuation.
Be and remain with those that you are with.
With respect to Robert Frost.
The walls of boundaries need to be walked in season. These walls, these boundaries, wall in & wall out expectations of acceptable conduct. Only then will respect occur.
IF there is only silence, without the gentle reminderings that we all need during times of one-off, thestones that set the boundary fall unseen to the ground.
This IS how IT IS IN Human Resorces. when the gentle reminderings are not expressed, stones tumble & the boundary is breeched.
Lessons are learned. Serenity (and sleep) disturbed through by the friction of turbulence & turmoil. Policies and procedures get revised and restated. policies & procedures are the stones that create the wall.
The wall of what is kept in. And what is kept out.
If you cough, sneeze, sigh, or yawn,
do it not loudly but privately;
and speak not into your yawning,
but put your handkerchief or hand before your face
and turn aside.
YAWN: I am not interested in viewing the depths of your primary orifice. In return, I will suppress my indecent behavior in your presence and in the presence of all others.
SIGH: a gentle reset of of stale air, or an expression of contempt enhances with an added eyeroll. Why sigh when ‘The Look’ will do? Must pass on this too.
COUGH/SNEEZE: Base biological cleansing actions with public health implications. I will excuse myself, or at least turn away, to spare you the spray of these explosive exhalations.
I leave you this day with this 5.7.5 haiku:
Cough Sneeze Sigh and Yawn
cleansing explosive express
While The World Watches
In the presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.
What would George Washington think of this day and age of cellphones and iPods.?
Private conversations held one-sidedly and loudly in public places.
iPod listeners singing out loud to voices and dancing to a beat heard only by themselves.
Yes, these days have become different than before. While we connect, we alienate and distance ourselves from the present physical moment.
Show Nothing to your Friend that may affright him.
Affright – middle English afyrht – for frightened. With strong similarities and tendencies towards terror.
When one becomes suddenly frightened, visceral emotional responses ensue. The resultant emotional storm, bypassing the cognitive brain,thrives on the primitive brain/amygdala fright/freeze/flight response. The cognitive brain is bypassed and irrationality thrives.
So I ask you this – Why would anyone intentionally instigate this situation? Only to be badger, belittle and and be deliberately belligerent.
And that is simply uncivil and indecent behavior.
Especially to a friend, colleague, or peer?
Wardrobe malfunction
When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.
This speaks to loathing of self-groping of genitalia. It also includes personal hygiene tasks done in public, i.e. fingers to ear, nose pickers, junk adjustments, teeth flossing and pimple bursting.
These activities are best left in private.
Please excuse yourself.
IN the modern era, this includes the three cleavages, breast, butt and toes. Wardrobe malfunctions. And other less appropriate revealing public displays.
When did I ever become the prude that I have become?
From Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior.
First of One Hundred Ten:
Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those who are present.
This is a new path for me. The form, format and direction will remain a work in progress. The intent is to explore each of GW’s one hundred & ten rules on civility. I expect there will be some contextual overlap.
Why think down this path? The rhetoric of public discourse, my own included, is frequently harsher than the situation, and its participants, may warrant. Spin, condemnation through labeling, and aggressive advocacy all are preventing our culture and society from advancing forward together. Civility should start from the top, come up from the bottom and be present at each level of leadership. The four Ps – Private, Personal, Public & Professional. Across the Time, Space & Place continuum
The foundation is civility and rules that lead to decent behavior.
Civility is currently defined as: polite, courteous & respectful conduct in manners, speech – both listening and speaking, and writing.
Rules are defined as: prescribed guide for conduct or action.
Note: Merriam-Webster is my preferred on-line dictionary resource and is the primary source for all definitions explored. Sometimes the source is used intact. Other times, the source may be revised to the context.
Every action done in company speaks to our conduct along the domains of verbal, nonverbal and tone.
I was writing to the negative and now have deleted those thoughts. Reflections will meet the titled positive intent & expectations of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.
• Verbal: words that heal and elevate without pretension. Listen fully to the other person’s words, all the way through and to the period.
• Nonverbal: Eye contact. Arms open
• Tone: Deliberate and measured calmness.
Civility & Decent Behavior (C&DB) requires emotional resilience when presented with frustrations, discord & crude/rude behavior. Take a deep breath and the moment wash beneath you.
The fog of news and the war against ourselves. Please find your peace with this world and all others this day.
From 24 hours ago, to this moment.
Algeria unrest turns deadly: 2 die, hundreds injured as ministers try to fix food, unemployment crisis – Al Jazeera
14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort city – AP
14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort city – AP
Several people shot at grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, according to Pima County Sheriff’s Department
NYT NEWS ALERT: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona Reportedly Shot in TucsonRep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona reportedly shot in Tucson – NYT
Dem Party in Tucson saying Giffords taken to hospital, 5 others also shot. Shooter apparently in custody.
Update: Shooting of Rep. Giffords occurred at a Safeway in north Tucson – Azcentral
More on Ariz. gunman: At least 12 shot, including Rep. Giffords, Democratic party source tells CNN
Officials tell AP that Rep. Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in the headUpdate: At least four are dead in Tucson shooting – Azcentral
RT @Reuters: FLASH: Congresswoman Gifford dies after being shot in the head at public appearance in Tucson, ArizonaUpdate: Giffords, 40, was a Democrat from Tucson. Her husband is astronaut Mark Kelly – NYT
Update: Shooting occurred at Giffords’ ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event – giffords.house.govRT @NBCNews: Congresswoman @Rep_Gifford’s last tweet http://bit.ly/ht11aQ
: My 1st Congress on Your Corner starts now. Please stop by to let me know what is on your mind or tweet me later.Update: Conflicting reports about Giffords – Reuters now reporting she’s alive and in surgery
Update: Hospital spokeswoman tells Reuters Rep. Giffords is in surgery. “She’s alive.”
Update: President Obama calls shooting of Giffords an ‘unspeakable tragedy,’ notes she is gravely wounded – White House
US District Court Judge John M. Roll was among those wounded in Arizona – Pete Williams, NBC News
RT @RussertXM_NBC: Federal authorities identify the gunman as Jared Laughner of Arizona, born September 1988
Update: US District Judge John M. Roll, shot in Tucson, is dead – NBC News
Update: Trauma surgeon says he is ‘optimistic’ about Giffords condition – KVOA.com
The threat of violence is nothing new to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords – First Read http://on.msnbc.com/eNDQtO
NASA sources: Rep. Gifford’s astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, lands in Tucson in a NASA jet – NBC
Pres. Obama – We are going to get to the bottom of the Rep. Giffords shooting that left at least 5 dead
Sarah Palin, who targeted Rep. Giffords in 2010 election, offers condolences http://on.fb.me/guuNNT
State Department: American woman reported arrested in Iran found safe, not in Iranian custody – AP
At least 14 former Guatemalan paramilitaries killed, 30 injured when bus falls into ravine west of capital
User images, real-time updates on Tucson shooting at breakingnews.com http://bit.ly/ii1C9t
Man linked to Rep. Giffords shooting called very disturbed http://bit.ly/hQrebt
Rep. Giffords office, surrounding area in Tucson, evacuated after suspicious package found – KGUN
Army confirms suspect in Rep. Giffords shooting, Jared Loughner, attempted to enlist in service but was rejected – NBC
Photo: Vigil at Rep. Giffords office in Tucson http://twitpic.com/3o94v2
House postpones all actions for week, including healthcare repeal bill, due to Rep. Giffords shooting – Rep. Cantor, R-Va.
2nd person involved in Rep. Giffords shooting – Pima County sheriff
800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline shut down after leak discovered at a North Slope pump station http://bit.ly/fflH9L
House Sgt. at Arms: No sign Ariz. shooting part of larger threat against Congress – NBC
London protesters decry Iraqi special forces attack on camp housing Iranian exiles http://bbc.in/giIz1U
9-yr-old killed in Rep. Giffords shooting just elected to student council, so neighbor invited her to event http://bit.ly/giX5cY
Pima County sheriff reveals IDs of 6 killed in Tucson shooting http://bit.ly/f0PxHR
Rep. Giffords reportedly awake in hospital room, recognizes husband – Politico http://politi.co/e5FRw4
Atlanta-bound Spirit plane returns to Fort Lauderdale gate after passenger finds bomb threat scribbled in magazine – AP
Man fatally hit by Blue Line train, disrupts CTA service around downtown Chicago http://bit.ly/fxGbfD
Hundreds hurt as crowds grow, Black Nazarene moves closer to Quiapo Church in Manila, Philippines, fest http://bit.ly/frYQEw
Skeletal remains at Ariz. Superstition Mtns likely 2 missing Utah men seeking Lost Dutchman Gold Mine http://bit.ly/fc6RXI
Philippine troops kill 2 al-Qaida-linked fighters – AP via WP http://wapo.st/hLFgYp
At least 9 deaths reported as protesters clash with security forces in Tunisia – Al Jazeera English http://bit.ly/fGsuiy
France says Niger’s Sahel region no longer safe after 2 of its nationals are killed; tells citizens to avoid travelling to region – Reuters
Police say six shot, including two officers near Baltimore nightclub – AP
Police release picture of possible associate of suspect in shooting that wounded Rep. Giffords, killed 6 – KVOA http://on.cnn.com/f23Jik
Police say 9 Maoist rebels killed in gunbattle in eastern Indian state of Orissa – AP
As of 4:30 a.m., Rep. #Giffords remains in critical condition, per hospital spokeswoman – Arizona Republic reporter http://bit.ly/iesOkm
Unemployed Saudi teachers stage rare Riyadh protest – Reuters http://bit.ly/i2DI6L
Ariz. hospital spokeswoman says there were erroneous media reports that Rep. Giffords had been conscious – NBC News
Ariz. authorities tell NBC News on Sun. that a total of 20 people shot in Sat.’s rampage, 6 died, 14 remain injured
Sources: Police investigating whether officer was fatally shot by other officer outside Baltimore club – Baltimore Sun http://bit.ly/eALC2d
House Speaker Boehner says the shooting of Ariz. congresswoman won’t stop representatives in Washington from their duties – AP
Saudi Arabia seeking 47 al-Qaida suspects – AP http://bit.ly/eaJCfR
Palin aide: Images of cross-hairs were never meant to evoke violence – Politico http://politi.co/dRIxTP
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