Leading Not Manage Change

Leading Not Manage Change

As we enter the last few weeks of this semester at College, it is important for me to think about next year. Because I value and respect my students, I have held two significant surveys to work out what level of changes are needed in order to go into 2020...
Volunteering Your Expertise Makes a Difference

Volunteering Your Expertise Makes a Difference

On Wednesday this week, I sat in a meeting that is now a quarterly ritual: the Investment Committee meeting. As a person who prides herself in her competence, the Investment Committee meeting makes me feel that I am in a room where others are speaking an entirely...
Personality Plus

Personality Plus

Recently, our Commerce faculty dinner featured two speakers who were both outstanding. One of them described himself by his Myers-Briggs Type and wondered how many Commerce students were the same type (it was INTJ for those wondering).  Some of my colleagues...
Love What You Do

Love What You Do

I have been thinking of that quote, ‘If you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.’ Attributed on the internet to Mark Twain, Marc Anthony and even Confucius, the quote obviously still has a lot of currency with people, even though we don’t know who...
You Can Only Be What You See

You Can Only Be What You See

A couple of weeks ago, I shared the story of my third-grade teacher and her influence on my aspirations.  She predicted that I would be President of the United States. As I have written about previously, while her aspirations for me helped me leave home for...
Positive Gossip

Positive Gossip

When I moved to Australia 30 years ago, I learned quickly that a trait I had learned growing up, being an affirming person, sat uncomfortably in Australia with some of my colleagues. I would go out of my way to affirm their teaching, their thinking or their...