A good week.
Family
The kids are getting in the groove of school, as am I. My youngest is having his standard challenge of focus...but I think his teacher this year is not going to be so fanatical about it. Yes I believe focus is important, but that the TRUE challenge is he gets bored. This is standard in my family tree. However, I see a bit of maturity in him, which gives me a bit of hope.
My oldest shows signs of focusing on his career. He has mentioned more than once that his participation on the debate team will help him get in college. Today I volunteered to participate at the Digitainment booth at the Atlanta Music Convention. There was a room specifically of the US Gaming Arena, and they invited Digitainment to host a booth there. I also recruited my son to be there.
They had plenty of games to keep him busy.
He also got to exercise his social skills beyond his core group of friends, which is something I am going to encourage him to continue practicing. My goal is to get him to continue going to these core networking events with me so that he can learn about the career options that exists, practice his business networking skills and perhaps find jobs that will be relevant to his career goals.
Concept Hub
More good meetings, more proposals. I HAVE to tell you that I brought a client to StudioPlex Studios to meet with Les Ottolenghi and I could NOT have been more proud of how that meeting was handled.
I also had the GREAT privileged of being the presenter for Training Pros Executive Round Table.
My approach for that presentation was that Social Media impacts EVERY department in an organization and that a social media policy and strategy NEEDS to be part of the organizational culture. Here are the slides of the presentation.
The event was at The W in Buckhead. It is an absolutely beautiful facility. Here are a few pictures;
Community
I love that I have set a content calendar for this blog. If you have not noticed that pattern yet, on Monday and Wednesday I try to blog about leadership ideas and on Friday or Saturday I write a week in review which encompasses my family, my career, and community activities. I then my post a weekend blog.
This content calendar keeps me focused on what I need to do to develop content for the blog, which keeps me committed to doing something noteworthy in the community.
So this week I get to tell you that I and Concept Hub are very much involved with promoting the Arts and Humanities Month in October. I will also be presenting on October 9th. More and more I am drawn to the vibrant activity in Atlanta relating to Arts and Entertainment and I feel privileged to be involved in highlighting the talent that lives in this city.
I am also staying continuously involved with the Atlanta Children's Shelter. This week I hope to bring my husband to the shelter and share with him why I am so impressed with the work they do. I also hope to donate some of my younger son's nicer clothes and toys to the shelter and let him understand what these donations are providing for children who are facing some hard times right now.
For the remainder of this weekend I am in planning mode. I have a new project with a new client and a few new directions that I am navigating. I also plan on organizing the house a bit and even getting the traveling dump known as my car cleaned out.
Overall....It's all good.
