Team Journaling

Written by Doreene Clement


Team Journaling By Doreene Clement

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The very effective tool of keeping a journal can be used in your workplace as well as at home. It is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives and support our personal and work well-being. Whether you journal your personal work experiences and goals, or use team journaling, journaling can easily be applied to your work environment.

The idea of team journaling is to incorporate journaling as a means to assess and track past, current, or future projects and goals. To get started, pick a team moderator,repparttar person(s) who all journaled information will pass through. They will coordinate and monitorrepparttar 144982 journaling process to keep it on track, and moving inrepparttar 144983 team's designated direction and purpose.

As a group deciderepparttar 144984 purpose and goals ofrepparttar 144985 team journal. Then date and write those down. Next decide what vehicle you will use to record your journaling in. You can use a blank book, and pass it from person to person or keep it in a designated place. You can journal onrepparttar 144986 Internet via a group list, at http://www.yahoo.com, or on a web log, called a blog, see http://www.blogger.com. You can also create a private message board on your company's website. Any of these systems allow an exchange of ideas, feelings, thoughts, and experiences ofrepparttar 144987 goals and directions you have already determined.

You will want to set some boundaries that will need to be respected and adhered to during this process. Date these and write them right under your purpose and goals. For example, there should be no personal attacks regarding ideas or personalities. Keep what is a fact separate from what is a feeling. Having feelings is OK, just don't confuse what is a fact and what is a feeling. At all times agree that respectful expression and disagreement is adhered to. You may want to limitrepparttar 144988 amount of content anyone can journal at any one time, say a paragraph, or a page. Set any other project guidelines thatrepparttar 144989 team decides to incorporate.

Networking: breaking into the buzz

Written by Helen Wilkie


Breaking into conversational groups is one ofrepparttar things people ask me about when I'm conducting networking sessions. There's a buzz that hovers over a crowded room that comes from all those people conversing. You need to break into that buzz to be a great networker.

Let's face it, looking at a room full of people you don't know can be intimidating. At first glance, it appears everyone knows everyone else --- except you! The first thing you need to remember is that this is not true. The only difference between you and all those others is that they have been inrepparttar 144981 room five minutes longer than you have. They have had an opportunity to begin a conversation with at least one person, so they appear at ease. All you have to do is find one person to speak with, and you will be just as at home.

Ah, but that'srepparttar 144982 problem. How do you break intorepparttar 144983 buzz? Here are a couple of ideas.

First, findrepparttar 144984 refreshment table orrepparttar 144985 bar, depending onrepparttar 144986 time of dayrepparttar 144987 event is being held. Now you are going to make your way over there, but don't make a mad dash with your eye firmly locked onrepparttar 144988 coffee pot. Instead, walk over in a leisurely way, looking overrepparttar 144989 people as you go. You may notice someone you know, or someone you have been wanting to meet. If you note where they are standing, you can move in that direction once you have your coffee.

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