My style as a manager is to encourage employees to continually improve their skill sets, to ensure that they are always employable elsewhere and when it's about the time to leave for the day, do one more self-improvement or organizational-improvement task.
Managing takes a considerable amount of time. Generally you should spend at least one-half your day interacting and teaming with your staff, face-to-face or in live collaboration. The administrative and company partnering time should consume the rest of the day. Your personal challenge is to improve your own skills, not just management skills but also your technical skills. That probably ends up being an off-hour challenge.
About ten days ago I realized that having things plugged in my ears or on my ears was OK but that streaming audio going from my PC or iPhone to a portable speaker would be good. "Bluetooth" popped into my head. While heading to Best Buy or Target could have worked I trolled through the Amazon options and ended up with the Sharkk bluetooth speaker. For thirty-one bucks it has awesome sound and now is part of my personal and business go-bag to enhance conference calls over the phone, sharing audio, etc. There is also an SD option to use it as a stand-alone device.
A few years ago I was an early adopter of bluetooth headsets but found the whole discovery and connection process tedious. This experience was very positive.
Personal Logisitics
- senior care financial management
- daughter's car in for maintenance
- truck in for oil & brakes
- wife's car for tires and oil tomorrow
- online bill payment
- small business support (accounting, A/P, inventory, marketing)
- space renovation issues
- call to Bush guy at top of list
- meeting with LHH contact THU PM
- schedule lunch with TR for next week
- messaged various contacts via LinkedIn
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