Comments on: What’s your Calling? Has it become your Ho‘ohana?

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The headline of our local paper’s Sunday edition was, “#Occupy The World: Wall Street Protests Go Global in Asia, Africa, Europe” and so the bold printing, coupled with the fact that he got a Sabbath’s leisurely day off, triggered the first time my wor…

By: The 10 Alaka‘i Beliefs of Great Teachers

The 10 Alaka‘i Beliefs of Great Teachers — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:26:57 +0000

[...] What’s your Calling? Has it become your Ho‘ohana? Excerpt: I have a core belief about being a manager, and that is that management is a calling, and [...]

By: Rosa Say

Rosa Say — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:55:54 +0000

Thank you for your sharing Roselia. So true, how our better success in our careers can add much complexity if we allow it to. Good for you with having that consciousness of returning to your Ho‘ohana.
A quick note for anyone newly arriving here: I am pretty sure that Roselia’s reference to “the idea of people vs furniture” is due to her first reading this posting current to April:
Be a Deskless Manager: Ho‘o!
Here is that link: http://www.sayleadershipcoaching.com/talkingstory/2009/04/deskless-managers.html

By: Roselia Conrad

Roselia Conrad — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:41:35 +0000

I love the idea of people vs furniture…get rid of the desk and get out and be with people. For physicians, this is all we want to do, be with our patients. Then, life got complicated and paper and more paper workwork and business matters were thrust on us and intruded into our relationships with our patients. The whole medical environment is a mess. I dealt with it for 13 years…no more.
I’m back to minimizing paperwork, spending time with my patients, and staying away from desks…at work and at home. Returning to my Ho’ohana, my calling.

By: Rosa Say

Rosa Say — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:17:16 +0000

Aloha Dan, we are very aligned with this! I am “strong on this point of manager/leader as a calling” because I believe that the cultural workplace shift of which you speak can best be achieved through the role of the manager. However that role needs reconstruction badly, and our past conventions with it have caused our present problems: The vast majority of managers today are in management as a compensation-aligned job versus a value-aligned role.
I’ve never thought of this challenge in the way you phrase it: “This is a point around which we need to develop access.” Something to give much more thought to, mahalo. I do agree that community-building is a substantial key, for while a calling is about self-awareness, we connect to others and serve them in a mirroring kind of way – that connection and integration is so crucial.

By: Dan Oestreich

Dan Oestreich — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:03:45 +0000

I’m glad you are so strong on this point of manager/leader as a calling, Rosa. I, too, believe it makes all the difference in the world to a person’s presence for others and personal sense of fulfillment. This is a point around which we need to develop access. The goal of integrating and balancing mind, body, soul, and spirit demands that we are in touch with all of these energies, but the culture of many workplaces does not necessarily support this awareness and focus. No one can prove it’s value in an absolute way, and yet I also believe if we open only a little we will already see that wholeness awaits us and we will naturally want to go in that direction. How can a person alone do this? To me, in the end, this is why we search out community — because locating and living our personal destinies depends on it. Your picture of the flower is perfect. I imagine it being twirled as an instrument of awakening, as the old buddhist story goes.