About Talking Story

by Rosa Say

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

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Teaching with Aloha: Constants and Changes: April 12, 2010 at 2:43 pm

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Rosa Say September 4, 2009 at 10:39 am

September 2009 Update:
My latest newsletter-ish post is this one: Ho‘ohana Community Focus Delivers Harmony

Rosa Say December 21, 2009 at 8:29 am

December 2009 Update:
Join me, as we Take 5 in 2010: A Game-Changing Ho‘ohana

I love the whole notion of “game-changing,” don’t you?

Rosa Say January 31, 2010 at 12:54 pm

January 2010 Update:

“Soft and fuzzy” has taken a severe hit with our recent economic tumbles. You know what I mean; those workplace humanity concepts which fall beyond the bottom line. We were doing fairly well working on them for a while, and our very rational, genuine selves will speak up and say, “Oh, don’t worry, we haven’t given up on that stuff. But you do understand we have to get the basics back first…”

Just great. A “yeah, but” from our emotional intelligence.

As a Talking Story reader, you are aware of my answer. In the financial literacy which is as real as it gets, hard, soft, and everything inbetween, wealth is a value. No matter what goes on in our world, and no matter what factors are at play at any given time, our values are “hard concepts” in my mind: They will always be foundational to why we care, why we bother when we keep trying, and how we go about surviving.

I gave a 20-minute talk about this to an audience of association executives in New York City last week, and I was asked if I would share the transcript of my speech for their future reference. Here it is, for I thought you might enjoy it too, as a good summary of many of the conversations we have had here. My hope, is that you will have it be a mirror image of the business model you give your attentions to today, for you and I both know this to be true: We humans, at our rock-hard, real-as-it-gets core, are “soft and fuzzy” in the true intelligence which matters to us. Task at hand, is getting that to match up to the way we work — from now on.

Continued at… Values are the Bedrock of Hard Reality, a post I suspect will be one of those notable markers for us here. It is also a good introduction if you are newly meeting me…

Rosa Say February 7, 2010 at 5:26 pm

February 2010 Update:
My latest newsletter-ish post is this one: Take 5 in 2010 Game-Changing; a February update, and I refer to it as “newsletter-ish” because among some others, it includes this decision:

I will still say “no” to throughout 2010, despite the more popular web marketing “wisdom” we are bombarded with: I will not be doing any email newsletters over and above, or different from the ways you can now get my publishing alerts directly into your inbox: Via Feedburner subscriptions to either this blog, Talking Story (click here), or if you want even more, my Tumblr, Ho‘ohana Aloha (click here).

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Rosa Say February 8, 2010 at 9:09 am: Aloha, I have edited out your personal information in respect of your privacy, and I will contact you before the day is over, mahalo nui.

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Rosa Say April 12, 2010 at 7:57 am

April 2010 Update:
My latest newsletter-ish post is this one: A Ho‘ohana Talk Story: April 2010. It talks about our current value theme Ho‘ohana, our call to action with job creation, and my new ebook offering, Become an Alaka‘i Manager in 5 Weeks, now available on Smashwords.

E.G. Sebastian May 24, 2010 at 4:20 am

Rosa, you are doing an excelent job for managers! I love your writing style and I’ll definitely refer some of my group coaching members (managers) to your site…

Keep up the great work! :)

Rosa Say May 24, 2010 at 7:27 am: Mahalo nui E.G., I appreciate your support of Talking Story. I also appreciate what you do to support and coach managers in their presentation effectiveness and confidence – so important!

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