Actively Learning Fannon
Close on the heels of the inspiring precedent set by Blair, Jeff dove headfirst into Videography 201 via the FurtherEd TV show. When Melissa and Blair’s schedules were such that Micah needed someone else to operate one of the cameras, Jeff took on the job without hesitation – in fact with excitement and good cheer – despite having no real background with videography while at the same time knowing that his work would be broadcasted on television to the largest city in the nation.
He was an avid student, and was completely receptive to feedback when reviewing the footage after the fact. Since then, he’s filmed four additional segments, including two on the same day as a Learn Session that he taught, and has upped his game tremendously where every aspect of the camera is concerned, from composition to movement to lighting. Thanks, Jeff!
Seeking Creative Solutions 2.Joe
Now Known As Detective Joe!
The Case of the Disappearing Bullet Points!
GC Michele went to Dev. 2.Joe with a mystery that no team member was able to solve for a decade: the disappearing bullet points from the bundle description. Michele had tried everything: using bullets from admin, hitting alt and 7 on number pad simultaneously; cutting and pasting from notepad; and each time the bullets appeared on admin but on the live site she only saw a question mark. Desperate to make the bundle page as dynamic as possible for the launch of FurtherEd Real Estate she hired 2.Joe for the case. At first he said “no problem” until he looked at the code… he knew it would be a challenge, but he was up for the challenge.
Donning his super sleuth hat, he tried code after code and still the bullets disappeared or it could only be done through Q/A. Michele had given up and was ready to throw in the towel, but 2.Joe would not quit and finally discovered a secret formula that would allow any team member to add bullets to a bundle description. Now the bullets are on display beautifully on our new real estate site FurtherEd Real Estate Bundle and will add value to all of our bundles descriptions. Dev. 2.Joe solved the case- kudos to his ability to seek a creative solution
Taking Time to Help Others Julie
Mo doesn’t know what core values Julie did not meet in the last month. She has gone out of her way to train and support three new staffers and to teach them to become successful in the last 3-5 weeks.
Julie is constantly working, even when she’s at home she is always thinking of ways she can improve the sales team or her role as their leader. She goes above and beyond her normal duties on a daily basis to make sure she’s doing whatever she can in her power to help this company grow.
Always taking time to help out with a sale and offering tips which helps Mike F, Mo, and Jennifer to constantly grow and improve!
She is selfless, dedicated, always learning and teaching. In short, she has absolutely been godsent.
Exuding Optimism Mo
Yes, she has a tiara. Awesome, right?
The Schnurm has never seen so many yellow sticky notes in his life. Smily faces, notes of encouragement to herself, oranges with faces drawn on them. Whatever the secret is to being optimistic Mo has cracked the code and The Schnurm want in!
From the first moment he met her she has had this positivity that has not wavered for a moment. You see her smiling, laughing, and just having fun on the phone all day. This type of optimism is infectious and it has especially meant a lot to him during the past week.
Thanks Mo for being you! Always has great energy and laugh even when having to do a double wammy of Blitz calls; making 200+ calls!!
Driven to Find a Better Way Maverick Joe
Anyone who works around the Video Production office has surely heard the iPhone alarms going off about once an hour the last few months as reminders to start the rebroadcasts.
NO MORE! Joe worked out a system that allows us to set a schedule where the rebroadcasts run on their own, making the lives of Melissa, Micah and Jeff much easier. Jeff no longer needs to stop mid conversation to start a rebroadcast.
Huzanga!!
PREVIOUS MONTH’S CV AWARDS
- March
- Actively Learning – Meredith
- Seeking Creative Solutions – Frank
- Taking Time to Help Others – Blair
- Exuding Optimism - Malcolm
- Driven to Find a Better Way – Rich
March 2013 Core Values Newsletter
- FEBRUARY
- Actively Learning – Blair
- Seeking Creative Solutions – Melissa & Micah
- Taking Time to Help Others – Mark
- Exuding Optimism - Team Retention
- Driven to Find a Better Way – CPE Crew
February 2013 Core Values Newsletter
This past Monday, Jeff R and I had the honor of attending the Big Brothers Big Sisters Sidewalks of NY Award ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom. Walking around this swanky building alone made the evening grand. Before dinner, guest were treated with cocktails and appetizers while mingling. I meet some wonderful Bigs who have been in the program for years and loved every minute of it.
Whenever I explain my interest in lucid dreaming to someone new, they tend to look at me as if I’m talking about some sort of mystical, magical nonsense. But there is researched, proven science behind lucid dreaming. It is a very real occurrence, and it’s even been used for medical purposes, most commonly as a cure for chronic nightmares. And the best part about lucid dreaming is that if you’re dedicated (and willing to possibly lose some sleep), you can teach yourself to do it.
sts during your daily life, you are more likely to perform them in your dreams and become lucid.
Kenneth: I spoke about my experience reading “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking and how a few of the underlying of principles of quantum mechanics and relativism actually apply to education, learning and the Lawline way. Specifically, I enjoyed how so many of the theories or principles that initially seem either counter intuitive or simply counter to how daily life works actually allow for much more flexibility once they are better understood. One example comes from the second law of thermodynamics, the principle that all matter favors and is moving towards a more disordered state. The second law of thermodynamics is the basis for much of the argumentation in the book surrounding the theory that the universe is expanding and the reasons black holes behave as experimental physicists think they do.
I also appreciated and commented in my presentation on Stephen Hawking’s willingness to admit when he had made mistakes, whether about blackholes being invisible by definition (there are some unique exceptions where they may be visible) or simply in his admission that, due to the uncertainty principle, he will never be fully correct or accurate in any of his proposals, but simply nearing closer to an absolute. He’s considered one of the foremost experts on blackholes, and yet he would not have reached this point without proposing hypothesis that ultimately proved to be contradicted; through stumbling and learning why he had been wrong, he has reached conclusions that appear to be closer to the physical truth. Extrapolating this, any workplace, Lawline or otherwise, would seem to be able to perform better, and reach greater outcomes more frequently, the more open it is to allowing workers to experiment and innovate, whether with re-organizing the current systems or being explicitly given a certain period of time each day or week to imagine the current workplace without any of its structural constraints, simply as an ideal (in our case, ASTED) and a mission, and then throw ideas against the wall that would legitimately be applied, and not just acknowledged as innovative, in the current work environment.
Yesterday, a group of Lawliners signed up for one of our fun activities here: trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Skip Yelp and read their personal reviews of the museum.
