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Steve Roesler Patient Expert

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I am married to "B" and we live 20 miles from Philadelphia in a tranquil, wooded area surrounded by lakes. (We don't live in the woods because we were asked to leave the city--we just like it here). It's a welcome break from the many days of international and domestic travel that are a... Full Bio
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Strengths, Weaknesses, and Engagement by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health What engages you most: building on your talent or overcoming what you see as some "gap" in your inherent abilities? Where do you get the bigger payoff? My fri ... Read on »
Change: What Gets In The Way? by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Defending the status quo. "That will never work."   "... That said, the labor laws make it difficult for us to do a lot of the suggestions [you] put out. An ... Read on »
Do You Use Verbal White Space? by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Graphic designers know how to focus your attention. They frequently communicate through the use of white space. Less is more. The message is clear. There's no clu ... Read on »
"What Do I Want To Be?" or "What Do I Want To Become?" by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Which question are you asking yourself? Your choice will help determine the depth of your life as well as the comfort-level of your career. I've been ... Read on »
Meetings: The First 15 Minutes Matter by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Beginnings make a huge difference.  Meetings offer a perfect example. I was working with a VP who started off her 3-day, first quarter meeting with a 20 minute i ... Read on »
Wisdom, Integrity, Discernment and 1,000 Posts by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health This is the 1,000th post here at All Things Workplace! Today's post was first published in 2007 and I decided to bring it back because its comments prompted an entire seri ... Read on »
Manage Talent: Build Managers by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Here's a lead from a Management-Issues article that caught my attention:   "The focus of many American businesses on nurturing and grooming their top-level talent is ... Read on »
Be Unique And Get With The Program by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."    --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) Teenagers are my favorite people to watch. Th ... Read on »
360 Feedback: It's About the Conversation by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Finding out "how we're doing" is an important part of life, on and off the job. 360 degree feedback tools can be especially helpful when you want to know how you are ... Read on »
Paying Attention to People by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health I received an email from a reader requesting "a post I recalled reading about 'paying attention to people.' " I think this was the one from December, 2009. The original ex ... Read on »
Business or Busyness? by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Recently I met with a corporate Executive VP in New York City. I'll call him Phil. Phil said his division was struggling. But instead of leading the charge to turn thing ... Read on »
Presenting? Master The Segue by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Help People Follow You: Create Transitions  "We'll be back after this message from..."  There's a reason why TV and radio announcers use that line. It's designed to ... Read on »
Ask For Help by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health We all need help: managers delegate (it's really about help), team members collaborate, and it would be great if our kids would take the trash out for us. Yet asking ... Read on »
Leadership: It Is About You by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health There seems to be an ongoing attempt to recycle, re-package, re-label and microwave new leaders into  existence. Yet that approach must be important, fascinating, or bot ... Read on »
Talent: Where You Decide to Perform Matters by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Hide not your talents, they for use were made.  What's a sun-dial in the shade?      --Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Everyone is talented at somethin ... Read on »
5 Meeting Traps and How To Fix Them by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health I just returned from a good meeting. Everyone was engaged, no one dominated (unless it made sense because of specific expertise), and every speaker followed up to c ... Read on »
Leadership & Influence: Raise The Standard by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health "Fitting in" is a big deal, and in many organizations it's seen as the way to career longevity. That's a problem. People are influenced by those they see as ... Read on »
5 Tips To Make Things Happen by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health Decisions get made. It's time to start. The goal is clear. There is a picture of what the result should look like. Now we just have to "do it." Some don' ... Read on »
Change: A Spiritual Issue by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health We business types seem to enjoy--and gravitate towards--discussions about Change. And, it's almost always in the context of managing Change, leading it, overcoming resis ... Read on »
5 Tips Leaders Can Use Today by Steve Roesler Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Workplace Health One of the benefits of working with lots of leaders in many different organizations is the chance to see what really works, regardless of the individual personality or i ... Read on »