When we begin to work with you, we will ask you about your “compass points” commonly referred to as vision, mission, and purpose. We use the compass metaphor in this way, as our Managing with Aloha-mentored “coaching sensibility”
—Be Mission-driven (‘Imi ola): What are you trying to achieve?
—Be Values-centered (Nānā i ke kumu): Why is it so important?
—Be Customer-focused (Mālama): Who do you intend to serve?
—Strive for the “North Star” and guiding light of Ho‘ohana (Palena ‘ole): How will this help you grow, and explore your full human ability and capacity?
As an example, and to help you get to know us better, these are the compass points we follow at Say Leadership Coaching, using our Hawaiian sense of place (as foundational grounding) and vocabulary (as our language of intention):
‘Imi ola: (Seeking best possible life)
Our Vision and Mission: What we work to achieve.
To be a manager is to touch another’s life in a profound way. The relationship between manager (or boss) and an employee or workplace peer and partner, is unlike any other in a person’s life. Great managers understand this, and work diligently to create this best relationship. Their Alaka‘i calling is to help others find their Ho‘ohana (intention for worthwhile work) in the context of a company’s reason for existence (i.e. in context of the compass points.)
An Alaka‘i calling requires belief and conviction in these Aloha truths:
- It requires the belief that people are destined to grow continually and creatively in celebration of their natural talents.
- It requires the bravery to explore these talents, nurture their inherent good, and coach their growth in a Ho‘ohana expression.
- It requires a purposeful passion for seeking the best in others and cultivating the beauty of the relationships that are sure to emerge between you.
Learn more: The Calling of Management: The 10 Beliefs of Alaka‘i Managers
Nānā i ke kumu: (Looking to the source)
Our Values: Why this is so important
Within our SLC curriculum, we offer coaching and mentoring in The 19 values of Managing with Aloha as our expertise in their value-alignment with shaping healthy workplace cultures.
What we will teach you, is that realistically, you can optimally focus on only five to seven values at most in the “look to the source” grounding and centering of any business. These are the Values of Say Leadership Coaching: We use their Hawaiian names, and their universal intentions.
1. Aloha
As our rootstock, and our fertile ground: Aloha is the tree trunk from which the 19 values of the Managing with Aloha philosophy branch out, flower and bloom.
2. Ho‘ohana
Hana refers to work as a noun. Adding Ho‘o, which on its own means to “make something happen” puts emphasis on work as a verb. As a value, Ho‘ohana requires full intention and purpose.
3. Hō‘imi
This value is connected to ‘Imi ola (to seek your best possible life) and it is about bringing a positive expectancy to all you do. Hō‘imi means “look for better and best.”
Learn more: The 3 Secrets of Being Positive.
4. Alaka‘i
Historically known as the Hawaiian value of leadership, and one we define as the value of leading AND managing well, for we are resolute as advocates of the calling of Alaka‘i management being a 30/70 pono balance of both disciplines.
Learn more: The 30-70 Rule in Leading and Managing.
5. ‘Ike loa
This is the seeking of wisdom through lifelong learning. It is our value of interest and curiosity, open-mindedness in questioning, and growth. When coupled with Aloha, ‘Ike loa is insistent on an emphasis on learning from other people.
Learn more: We Learn Best from Other People.
Mālama: (Stewardship with Aloha Care)
Our Customer: Who we intend to serve
We teach and coach staff at all levels of business organization, from entry level to the executive office. Business model reinvention has become a necessity for many as we recover from the “great recession” and Rosa’s most requested team coaching today is for the teaming which best happens between an operational executive committee and its Board of Directors so they simultaneously work on the same goals, as aligned with company compass points.
The personification of our customer is the Alaka‘i Manager, and our coaching is aimed at facilitating and supporting that person’s necessary role reinvention in what we feel is an optimally healthy and profitable workplace culture.
Learn more: Are you a manager or leader?
Ho‘ohana: (Making worthwhile work happen)
Our Purpose, Intention, and Growth: How this helps us grow too
As we have covered, the mission of Say Leadership Coaching is to mentor Alaka‘i Managers who will manage and lead others with Aloha: We exist to enable those with a workplace genius to be discovered, one which creates healthy, prosperous work cultures.
Our goal is to cultivate nobility and responsibility in management as the crucial working initiative sought by emerging leaders.
We coach managers to practice the art of Alaka‘i management while seeking personal growth and continuous learning for themselves.
We coach managers to equally commit to the development of the mutually beneficial employee relationships that are to be gained from mentoring and learning from their own people.
We believe that our mission is the worthwhile work through which we can make our best contribution to humanity and to our community, as we explore our own Palena ‘ole capacities as coaches.
You may also be interested in our “rules of engagement,” what we call our Ho‘ohiki. They are the “promises we keep” in our coaching work with you: SLC Ho‘ohiki
