Emergency Generator July/August 2006
		Oops! We made a mistake in our last issue. We did a feature article on Kate Ertman, CEO Extraordinaire at that groovy, fabulous animation company in town, ADi. Silly us, forgot to give proper props. So, here it is. Thank you, Kate, for sharing your learning with us, you helped and served many. And for those looking for an insanely talented, fab-o animation and creative marketing firm... look no further. Animation Dynamics, Inc. (ADi) @ 503.227.5914. Hey! Check out Perata Consulting's new Website! Complete with seminar, event and testimonial information, it's a total face lift thanks to Katherine Gray and the folks of Tweak Interactive, Inc. Other Events Around Portland Yet another little oops! on our part. For some reasons that will certainly benefit you, dear reader, we have moved the CEO Executive Seminar dates from August 10and 11th to a luncheon series begin in the Fall. If you are a leader, entrepreneur, executive, founder - type you won't want to miss this series. Stay tuned! Portland Female Executives (PDXfX) Women Entrpreneurs of Oregon (WEO) Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum The Link for Women Noteworthy Links and Resources For a glimpse into how you can generate results and effectiveness in the workplace like you never have before, check out these three books: How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work,Kegan and Lahey and You Are What You Say, Dr. Matthew Budd and Getting to Yes, Fisher " Regina makes it her mission that you achieve your outcomes and acquire the practices and tools to enable and empower you to be your most powerful and greatest self." Find out More > Emergency Generator What's looming over your head today because you "don't feel like" doing it? A networking obligation? A conflict to face with a coworker or employee? Hours to bill? We all know what it's like to "not feel like it." But when it affects our commitment to the job, our team, our business, we've got to understand the impact it makes and reconnect with what got us to commit in the first place. Commitment is, by definition, made up of the actions that support it. We stay faithful, we stay married. We do the work, we keep the job. We perform as a leader, we grow our leadership role (and, hopefully our team or our company). If we stop the actions that make our commitment alive, it dies, and what we're left to deliver are empty promises. Yuck! This is where we kick in the emergency generators. How to do that? Keep your word. Generate from your promise, not from your feelings. Consider that your feelings (i.e., "I don't feel like it") are irrelevant to your actual commitments. The Practice - Take inventory of where you're disconnected and reconnect to your commitment. Take inventory Consider these things: - Where did you make a promise that you are not keeping? What is the cost of that? To you? To others? - When did you stop "feeling like it?" Where did you make your feelings matter more than your word or your commitment? Reconnect Think about what you care about-the marriage, the business-building, the company mission. Acknowledge that you broke your promise and then recommit, or revoke the promise and offer new terms of what you CAN do. - Ask someone to remind you why you committed. Set reminders yourself…like a weekly meeting, or a regular date night with your partner. - Enlist your team: own that you are disconnected and enlist their help in getting re-involved in your shared purpose. - Consider where you are failing, and then SHOW UP right there. Just for the sake of showing up. - If you still can't do it, do it anyway. Integrity gets restored when you live into what you said you were going to do. Think about your commitments and GENERATE your action from that place. Go do it! Say "so what" to your feelings and surprise yourself by creating something you have not created previously. After all, the bonus in completing what we were procrastinating far surpasses the malaise of procrastination. In the spirit of Summer, Regina Coaching   Seminars   About Regina   Testimonials   Events   Contact