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  • >>Both Book and Practice

    “Every single day, somewhere in the world, Aloha comes to life. As it lives and breathes within us, it defines the epitome of sincere, gracious, and intuitively perfect customer service given from one person to another.”

    This genuine connection is the Aloha Spirit Hawai‘i is known for.

    Now imagine if the customer is an employee, and if the customer service provider is their manager, one who continually shares his or her aloha spirit in the coaching and mentorship they offer. This possibility, this liberating reinvention, is one that managers everywhere can and must believe in, demonstrate and sustain if we are to truly thrive at work. Managing with Aloha helps managers and leaders do just that; grow in their belief and intention, and make worthwhile, meaningful work our reality.

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Hawaiian Values

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Managing with Aloha: We Reinvent Work Value by Value

Aloha and Welcome!
~ If you have arrived here on the recommendation that Managing with Aloha is a top productivity blog, please click through to this page for the information you are looking for: MWA3P: Productivity and Working with Aloha
~ If you are here for Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawai‘i’s Universal Values to the Art of Business in its entirety, keep reading this page!
Mahalo nui loa,
~ Rosa Say

Managing with Aloha explores nineteen different Hawaiian values, and how to bring these very universal values to businesses today of every endeavor.

The Hawaiian words may seem foreign at first, but our universal, all-embracing discussions will be familiar to you, and those we coach quickly discover that using these “new words for old values” helps them reinvent old assumptions into better usefulness. We explore common sense, everyday approaches to blending the social and economic goals of business enterprise in ways that permeate our organizations and our community, defining a more meaningful sensibility for the way we work. We learn to become great managers and leaders. And in the process, we as managers learn to love our work too.

Managers get their work done through others it’s as simple as that. As a manager you have the potential to affect the lives of people in profound ways, something you need to understand and take responsibility for. The best way to manage someone well is to honor their values as you remain true to your own, and given their universal nature it is highly probable many of your values are shared. Our values define our behavior, and in business, consciously working on values becomes synonymous with writing the software that drives effective work processes.

And we know that it isn’t “as simple as that.” That is why Managing with Aloha was written to help you.

Incorporating the language of values into a company’s culture demands meaningful communication, win-win agreements and a long term commitment to excellence: It becomes a language of intention which helps us “walk our talk” with integrity. When this is in place, work is conducted strategically, consistently, and successfully. Managing with Aloha helps us see this, and it explains how the arms of Aloha embrace the capacity every manager, and every employee has, to make a positive difference in the work they do.

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Sitemap: More about this website.

Managing with Aloha was created as an on-going resource for readers of Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawaii’s Universal values to the Art of Business. You’ve read the book, and you’re excited about the possibilities it presents for you; now how do you make it your reality?

As a general lay-out, you will find

This site is designed for first-time visitors here, who probably have not yet read Managing with Aloha, and are looking to start with information on the book itself. Under the HAWAIIAN VALUES heading, take the hyperlink for each value to its individual page, with definition, pronunciation guide, and an index to noteworthy articles written since MWA was first published.

Managing with Aloha Coaching is a sister site we have designed for those who  HAVE read or ordered Managing with Aloha, and are ready to take action, putting the book’s coaching into their every day practice. We say they are ready to Climb the 4 Peaks, living, working, managing, and then leading with aloha.

Are YOU ready? Visit Managing with Aloha Coaching today, to get started.

The Ho‘ohana Community

Manage with aloha and you are in great company! 

Managing with Aloha has become a movement, with managers and leaders across the globe devoted to accepting full responsibility for the effect they have on our workplaces. They are continual learners, equally dedicated to their own growth —and joy! —as great managers in day-to-day practice.

Are you ready to jump in with full intention? These are the links I’d recommend you visit to get involved: We are waiting to share our aloha with you!

>> Our monthly e-letter, Ho‘ohana ‘Ōlelo™ Subscribe today!

>> Who, or what, is the Ho‘ohana Community? Meet your neighbors and friends.

>> Joyful Jubilant Learning: Where the writers within our community continue to explore the values of Managing with Aloha globally using the new media tools of today, with particular emphasis on LEARNING.

Are you looking for Managing with Aloha Jumpstart?

In 2006 we launched an experiment to bring the MWA start-up program of Say Leadership Coaching to our readers outside of Hawai‘i virtually. We aligned the program, one of self-paced coaching, with Ho‘ohana, then our value of the month program on the Talking Story weblog.   

MWA Jumpstart ® proved to be a wonderful pilot, and we currently are developing our next generation of the program. Old links are systematically being removed, and we will post a notice here when MWA Jumpstart ® returns. Meanwhile, the place to be is Managing with Aloha Coaching, and we encourage you to join our community there.

Visit the Services page of Say Leadership Coaching if you would like to have in-person coaching on MWA brought to your company, or learn about the Executive Coaching program that Rosa delivers personally.

In Keeping with our December Tradition: Twelve Aloha Virtues

A preface;

On the first of December three years ago, I wrote an article called My Aloha Virtue List. It held brief descriptions of how I defined hope, freedom, humor, prayer, vitality, wonder, trust, faith, grace, gratitude, joy and peace as virtues. The article quickly became the most frequently visited posting I had ever written for ManagingWithAloha.com and by month’s end I added its link to the site’s in-residence listing of the nineteen values of Managing with Aloha to give My Aloha Virtue List the parking spot it seemed to have earned for itself!

Each November since, I have read the article again as I prepare for our next Ho‘ohana value study to come, remembering how perfect the seasonal mood of December seemed for the list at the time, and quickly deciding it is again a great time to revisit these twelve virtues. They shine so brightly, with a positive enthusiasm of all that is good about the season, sort of a “Twelve Rays of Christmas” in a MWA values meets virtues meant-for-December tradition.

Welcome to December 2008:
We make our own rules here, and always with an outlook of positive expectancy, right? So for our “value of the month” we are starring the Twelve Aloha Virtues.

To kick things off, a newly edited version of My Aloha Virtue List on MWA Coaching, and we will allow them to lead us where they may.

Virtue is not a word we hear all that much; it’s not a thought that crops up in the regularity and routine of our days. Well, I propose that we again consider Virtue as an aloha-filled theme for the coming month. A new habit to keep. A list to make and check off twice. Today is December 1st and the day presents itself as a perfect time to live within virtuous thoughts. The holiday season frames it wonderfully, and after the year I can imagine you’ve had, you deserve this. We all do.

What is Virtue?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

“Virtue is the habitual, well-established, readiness or disposition of man’s powers directing them to some goodness of act. Virtue is the moral excellence of a man or a woman … as applied to humans, a virtue is a good character trait.”

How can you not like that, and want more of it?

Your character emerges from the deep inner weavings of your values, your spirit, and your instinctual emotional well-being: It is flushed out and propelled toward others on the vibrations of your good intentions. Indeed, the virtues you choose to practice were in fact chosen by your “moral excellence.”

On my list? All nouns begging our action to make them verbs.

Continue to read my posting here: In Keeping with our December Tradition: Twelve Aloha Virtues.

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