A Complete Index of Articles ~ 2008

A new coaching essay is posted on Managing with Aloha Coaching on the 1st of each month to introduce the value study of that month, and then on each Tuesday thereafter:

December 2008 ~ Value theme: Our Aloha Virtues

1. In Keeping with our December Tradition: Twelve Aloha Virtues
2. Virtuous Thinking with Aloha to help me
3. Running with Virtue
4. Wonder, Gratitude and Joy
5. The Virtue of Vitality

November 2008 ~ Value theme: Ho‘omau, the Hawaiian Value of Perseverance and Persistence

1. Ho‘omau: Reveal the Good, and Make it Last
2. Understanding Kaona in our Ho‘omau Language of Intention
3. Decision-Making and Decision-Management seen through Ho‘omau
4. Not just ‘again.’ Ho‘omau better.

October 2008 ~ Value theme: Nānā i ke kumu, the Hawaiian Value of Source and Truth

1. Nānā i ke kumu: Look to your Source, Find your Truth
2. Where is this “wellspring?” Your Ho‘ohana and your Sense of Place
3. How Nānā i ke kumu Helps You Embrace Change and Growth
4. A Truth-Fed Philosophy of Leadership
5. What are your Source-Bred Self-Respecting Essentials?

September 2008 ~ Value theme: Ho‘ohana, the Hawaiian Value of Work

1. Ho‘ohana: Redefine the word “work” and make it yours.
2. Why Bother with Ho‘ohana, and “Worthwhile Work” at all?
3. Our Ho‘ohana Language of Intention: Are we talking about the same thing?
4. Writing a Ho‘ohana Draft Part 1: Your Intention and Your Personal Values
5. Writing a Ho‘ohana Draft part 2: Enjoy the How-To of your Values.
6. Finalizing your Ho‘ohana Statement into Workable Form

August 2008 ~ Value theme: Alaka‘i, the Hawaiian Value of Leadership

1. Day One Essay: Alaka‘i, Chiefs and Indians
2. Why Self-Leadership?
3. Self-Leadership in 1 Sentence
4. The Self-Leadership of Alaka‘i: The Connection to Worthwhile Work
5. The Self-improvement Targets of Self-Leadership

July 2008 ~ Value theme: ‘Ike loa, the Hawaiian Value of Learning.

1. Day One Essay: ‘Ike loa, the Hawaiian Value of Learning
2. Learning as a process: Beginning, Middle, and End
3. The Learning Process of Managing with Aloha
4. Learning from other People
5. MWA in Tertiary Learning: Developing your ‘Ike loa Habit

June 2008 ~ Value theme: Ka lā hiki ola, “the dawning of a new day.” The Hawaiian value of hope and promise.

1. Ka lā hiki ola and the New Us
2. A New Publishing Schedule for Managing with Aloha Coaching
3. Ka lā hiki ola and Ho‘ohiki
4. Ka lā hiki ola and Kēia Manawa
5. Say Ka lā hiki ola to make it yours
6. Hope, thy name is Optimism

May 2008 ~ Value theme: Ha‘aha‘a. The Hawaiian value of humility.

1. Ha‘aha‘a means Humility Laughing
2. Calvin’s Mamaki Tree
3. Sunday Mālama: What can a Humble Wave do for you?
4. New MWAC White Paper: The Role of the Manager Reconstructed
5. I am Confident in Being Me...
6. Humility in the Workplace
7. Looking to the Source of our Hawaiian Values
8. “Ah, there you are” said the halo
9. Listening Alone Does Not Equate to the Humility of Ha‘aha‘a
10. In Search of the Ultimate Freedom
11. The Not-So-Secret Ambition of Being Indispensable, and 5 Trade-Ups
12. To Rock ‘n Roll in Biz is to Fly in the Face of Convention
13. Learning Twitter with Hawaiian Values
14. Get Started on Twitter the Value-Based Way: 5 Tips
15. Always Find Your Doubting Thomas

April 2008 ~ Value theme: Mālama. To care for, honor, and protect.

1. Mellow Maintenance Mālama
2. Mālama and our 5-Beat Rhythm: Getting April Started in the Best Way
3. How is Your Workplace affected during a Recession?
4. Hau‘oli la hanau to Joanna Young!
5. Abounding Grace: Found First in Forgiveness?
6. Didja know that today is Joe D.Cool’s birthday?
7. Dennis the Menace gets what Mellow Ma‘alahi Mālama is all about
8. Are you Job Complacent or Company Loyal?
9. Great Mālama Messages in not-so-great Times
10. Sunday Mālama: Internet Privacy and a release in Talking Story
11. There’s Mellow Mālama Maintenance in Math
12. Managers: Are You Teaching? Know Can Do!
13. The sentence I hear from YOUR people in YOUR workplace classroom
14. Earth Day is Mālama the People Day too
15. Hau‘oli la hanau. Mele Ma‘alahi.
16. Keith is right, and lucky me, you know it too
17. Civil Responsibility in 2008 for Hawai‘i and for you
18. Hau‘oli la hanau to Tim Milburn!
19. Mālama in our 5-Beat Rhythm: What can you sustain?

March 2008 ~ Value theme: Ho‘ohanohano. Honor the dignity of others.

1. Ho‘ohanohano: No more jerks for managers
2. Sunday Mālama: Wayfinding your MWAC Resources
3. Ho‘ohanohano and our 5-Beat Rhythm: Getting Started
4. Ho‘ohanohano and Approachability: A Story.
5. Ho‘€˜€˜ohanohano and the Law of Reciprocity
6. Sunday Mālama Book Review: Know Can Do! ~ Part One
7. Google Doc News for our 2008 Brex Initiatives in Digital Learning
8. The 1 List That Every Manager Must Work With
9. Sunday Mālama: The Open-Minded Contrarian
10. A Ho‘ohanohano St. Patrick’s Day to you!
11. Are you a high maintenance manager?
12. How are those values working for you, hmm? A follow-up to Say No to Resolutions: Choose your Values instead this past January.
13. “Inspiration” is ‘in-spirit.’ Thus Inspiration is Aloha.
14. Sunday Mālama: Know Can Do! ~ Part Two A Book Review of Trade Up!
15. Sense of Place on the Internet: A Brand New Community Ecosystem
16. Providence Radar-Blips our ‘Community Ecosystem’
17. Ho‘ohanohano: Learn to Bask in the Compliments You Get
18. Ho‘ohanohano Helps us Identify and Cure Unintentional Neglect
19. Ho‘ohanohano in our 5-Beat Rhythm: Partner with Providence!
20. Sunday Mālama: Brex takes the Imagine it! Challenge
21. Working Beyond Their Means

February 2008 ~ Value theme: Kuleana. One's personal sense of responsibility.

1. Kuleana, the Value of Personal Responsibility
2. Kuleana and our 5 Beat Rhythm: Beat 1 Questions to answer ~ for you.
3. Pull the Trigger on Kuleana
4. We interrupt our normal programming... for Responsibility Coaching
   NEW PAGE! The MWAC Companion Coaching Program
5. The Vocabulary Landmines of Responsibility (and choosing Kuleana instead)
6. Coaching Conversations: People will ask me...
   “How long should I try this? Do you think there will be a moment I know whether this management stuff [and the managing people not process part I ask them to focus on] is really what I am meant to do or not?”
7. The Role of the Manager in Managing with Aloha: The case for a better way to work.
8. What I have learned from the People we collectively call “our employees”
9. The Manager’s Responsibility for Leadership
10. It’s your Kuleana to pay attention! My ROA coach is none other than Katie Couric.
11. Are you up for a Love-minded Aloha Challenge today?
12. You gotta try it, right?
13. Kuleana Responsibility means you cease waiting for someone else.
14. A Screenshot of Digital Learners
15. Let’s make a Great Managers’ Conversation Agreement
16. Kuleana Responsibility is what you Accept more than what you are Given
17. How can managers change a company's culture?
18. What’s the skinny on the Daily 5 Minutes?
19. February 29: Love-Minded Aloha All Day Long!
20. Aloha in A Love Affair with Writing
21. Get Responsible about Performance Reviews once and for all
22. Kuleana in a 5-Beat Rhythm

Our Sunday Mālama in February is devoted to a 4-Article Series on Brex; short for a 2008 initiative on MWAC called Brave Experiments [with] Digital Learning.

1. Who is the Digital Learning Coach in your company?
2. What is Required of ME as a Digital Learner in 2008?
3. What are the changes Digital Learning requires of your organizational culture?
4. Ready to create your Digital Learning List, tribe style?

January 2008 ~ Value theme: Pono. Rightness, balance, and integrity.

1. Pono and the Why of Right
2. Pono and our 5 Beat Rhythm: A Beat 1 Example on Decision Management
3. Say No to Resolutions: Choose your Values instead
4. Is Pono where Integrity goes?
5. Sunday Mālama: You can do it for each other, why not for me?
6. Perfect Pono Partner: Positive Thinking
7. Balance? What Balance?
8. I know a little about that book; my name is Rosa.
9. Pono is a Value you can See
10. New Resource Page: Why Choose Values?
11. Sunday Mālama: The First Time versus the Insider’s Advantage
12. Pono the Judge
13. Get Pono Integrity for your Business Model
14. Sunday Mālama: Do you have a Stop Doing List?
15. A Pono Attitude will Determine a Pono Outcome
16. Pono in a 5-Beat Rhythm
17. Mahalo for your Mana‘o on Pono