Positive Business Minutes (Feb 2013)

Positive Business Minutes (Feb 2013)

True Story

A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph 's Hospital.
She timidly asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me
how a patient is doing?"

The operator said, "I'll be glad to help, dear.
What's the name and room number of the patient?"
The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said,
"Norma Findlay, Room 302."

The operator replied, "Let me put you on hold while I check
with the nurse's station for that room."

After a few minutes, the operator returned to the phone and said,
"I have good news. Her nurse just told me that Norma is doing well.
Her blood pressure is fine; her blood test just came back normal and
her physician, Dr. Cohen, has scheduled her to be discharged tomorrow."

The grandmother said, "Thank you. That's wonderful. I was so worried.
God bless you for the good news."

The operator replied, "You're more than welcome.
Is Norma your daughter?"
The grandmother said, "No, I'm Norma Findlay in Room 302.
No one tells me at all"
TRUE STORY

Improving your Word Power

Recently, I was reading this book and it was called "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis, and I realized that my vocabulary range was awful, my commitment to this blog is to share information that I pick up and am willing to share and grow

Words
1)A clandestine meeting - secret
2) to vacillate continually - swing back and forth in indecision
3) audacious attempt - bold
4) a prurient adolescent - sexually longing
5) an egregious error - outstandingly bad
6) a taciturn host - disinclined to conversations
7) shows perspicacity - mental keenness
8) a laconic reply - terse and meaningful
9) to malign his friend - slander
10) gregarious person - very sociable

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Giving some structure to creativity

Brainstorming could be quite time consuming. If we could use a method, we save a lot of time. The power of using morphological matrix to get combination for key words. Coming up with an acronym becomes so much easier.
The first step is to come up with as many positive words that relate to GOAL.
If we start off with the letter G, we could get the following words such as Grabbing your attention, giving your best, Go-getting, Good to greatness, going all the way, Glory, Getting there, grasping the subject. (8 possibilities)
Next if we look at the letter O, we could get the following words such as Opportunities, Outcome, Objective, Organizing your thought, Order, Optimism, on the right tracks, out to get the results. (8 possibilities)
Then if we look at A, we could get the following words such as Availability of resources, Accountability, Accuracy, Alliances, Amount of effort, Attitude, All out to win, Assign.(8 possibilities)
Finally if we look at L, we could get the following words such as Listen to your inner voice, Learning from others, looking for avenues, Lucky, Leading, Leverage, Letting your bad habits go, Likability. (8 possibilities)
We could possibly get 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 = 4,096 and if you just add one more possibilities to each you get 6,561 possible combinations that could be great solutions.
The following are just a few examples for G.O.A.L.
Grabbing your attention, objectives, accountability and leverage. Grasping the subject, objectives, accountability and leverage. Good to Greatness, objectives, accountability and leverage. Grabbing your attention, organize your thoughts, accountability and leverage. Go-Getting, objectives, accountability and learning from others.