About Talking Story

Thank you for visiting! You are welcome to stay; to move in. I do hope you subscribe, having decided to become part of our community of learners.

Talking Story is a blog published by The Ho‘ohana Community, champion of the values-based Managing with Aloha workplace movement. Updated at least twice a week, Talking Story features the most current writing of author, entrepreneur and manager’s advocate Rosa Say ~ that’s me. I spend most of each day as a business coach working to make organizational culture healthier, and my intention is to provide you with easy to use workplace resources that are the result of our day-to-day lessons learned: Talking Story helps me do so.

I mostly write about values, management and leadership, for I work within businesses large and small as the founder of Say Leadership Coaching. However here on Talking Story we get very individual and personal, and we apply management and leadership theory to our self-management and self-leadership practices, looking for our daily opportunities to do so. We get real with the stuff we learn. We own up to our responsibility to be a bit better every day, improving our world by merit of our good example. We talk story, and we walk our talk.

Does this “we” I keep referring to, include you? Are you a manager or a leader?

All that said, you’ll likely see me refer to Talking Story as my “mothership” for it serves as an experimental playground for me as well, and any other forays I’ve explored in my online publishing have started here in some form. So expect the off-topic stuff and feel free to jump into it with me: I take no prisoners :-)

I would be thrilled and honored if you’d grab an email subscription: Try it for a week or two to get a feel for how things happen here, for you can opt-out or cancel at any time you change your mind or your reading habits. I encourage you to have more conversations in the workplace, with your families, and within any team you happen to be a part of, and you’ll find the subscription copies delivered straight to your inbox make it very easy to share ideas, talk story with others, and bring them into the conversation too. Trust me, that is how easy it can be to use the resources you will find here.

I believe that “What’s in it for me?” is a terrific question, and you should ask it! I am here, and I write Talking Story so you can best answer that question and be the star you are meant to be.

Are you ready? Let’s talk story!

Rosa Say

“I think we are seeing profound shifts from teaching to learning, from speaking to conversation, from leadership to followership. We need to shift our focus 180 degrees in this move to the collective versus the individual.”
—employee engagement expert, David Zinger
David is also a member of our Ho‘ohana Community Advisory Board

One last thing: Please don’t let my use of Hawaiian keywords cause you to hesitate! They are part of an intentional learning strategy where new vocabulary is introduced to you to help, not hinder. You can read more here, on a special page exclusively designed for Talking Story readers:
About our Hawaiian Glossary and Language of Intention

If you have another question I have not yet answered for you, please write me at any time. Use the comment boxes below, or this contact form if you prefer to write me privately.

Me ke aloha,
Rosa
For more about me and my other projects, I invite you to visit RosaSay.com