Leadership is a Privilege

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Vicki

Leadership is a privilege, understanding this rule will allow you to get beyond yourself.

While the leader should lead the ship, the team, the project, all while building the relationship.
A leader may ask –how do you do that?
First, you assume nothing, you teach and ask everything in a non-threatening yet conversational way that gives you the needed insight. For a seasoned leader will see the void, the disconnect, the need to ask more questions and gain the understanding to learning how to build the bridge in getting from point A to point B.

My nick name was “pit-bull” in the trades…

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Vicki

Yeah, that’s right I was in the trades, I ran construction-welding crews. The name “pit-bull” was given to me by one of the top Construction Engineering companies in Cleveland, Ohio.

My passion and values came out in everything I did –
I didn’t take no for an answer –
Being off budget and not on time was not in my vocabulary –
Cutting corners and sub-standard work was not acceptable –

I was who you called in to find the problem and fix it. Project management was my niche’ I was working in my strength zone – planning, seeing every detail, being ten steps ahead of the problem with the ability to think and act outside the box.

I was in my zone when it came to project management.

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The Legendary Pickle

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Vicki

Pickle

In Old World Germany, the last decoration placed on the Christmas tree was always a pickle…carefully hidden deep in the boughs. Legend has it that the observant child who found it on Christmas Day was blessed with a year of good fortune…and a special gift.

Where are your dreams, goals and visions hidden?

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I have to get it right the first time

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Vicki

Perfectionism, the “I have to get it right the first time” syndrome.

Perfectionism I know, I wanted to make my first blog posting brilliant the first time out. While it was a nice idea, it just didn’t work out that way. I didn’t pose the question, I didn’t let you the readers know Sandy is a real client that wanted to share and get feed back to her frustration to writing and selling her vision.

NO!! The way perfectionism works, is it ties you up in knots, sending you fleeing from your desk, spinning in circles, making you so crazy you can’t think straight, let alone write.

Hmmm – and then it suddenly dawns on me that is exactly why I created “the Uptown Ladies Club” to mastermind. I don’t need to be a perfectionist. I need to be transparent, to share my thoughts, and get the insight of others, and at the same time, remember to not let my passion cloud my judgment thinking I have to have all the answers.

Perfectionism leads to paralysis
This leads to procrastination

Vicki

Creating a vision in a microwave world

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Vicki

Dear Sandy,

Our conversation creating a vision in a microwave world left me in a bit of a quandary. As we listed the instant examples that our culture has become accustomed to, from microwave cooking, to fast passes at Disneyland so we don’t have to wait in lines, to being annoyed if the speed of our internet connection is not blazing fast, and we used to think dial-up was fast.

Oh my gosh!! I couldn’t agree with you more when you said

“instant everything is a mindset for failure.”

Do you think that’s why we don’t have clarity of outcome? I know I need and enjoy my downtime to think, reflect, pray, write, review, ponder and call you to discuss the ripple effects. Some of my best and deepest conversations were during the planning stages. Even our conversations today are instant, text messaging, email, and twitter. Are we loosing the ability to communicate? How do you share you visions and dreams in a world of 140 characters or less?

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