Joe Budde Jr.

Almost three months ago, I started a new role at Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and Foundation as the Assistant Controller. This change has been exciting for me in many ways, but bittersweet others. My time at NCR Corporation was an excellent way to start my working life. NCR provided me with so many opportunities, especially amazing travel. I was able to attend an awkward birthday party in India, examine how college impacted my work day in Budapest as I saw ATMs being built.

So leaving the global company behind, I began a new phase at a Non-Profit. It has been amazing to move from having 30,000 co-workers to just 30. In my first few weeks at Beta, one of my new coworkers facilitated Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Signature Program for a group of the newest employees. It was a great program and enabled me to spend some time thinking about how to define success and plan to achieve it.

So in the spirit of sharing, I am starting a series of posts about some of the concepts taught in the seven habits program.

As a start, check out the seven habits diagram, and lets begin our journey from dependence to interdependence!

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A classmate of mine from Miami University, Blake Samic, posted a video of hope and optimism that goes along with my first video post. It is empowering to know that a single person, yes thats you and I!, is able to see opportunities and make changes and improvements. How are we choosing to handle the opportunities that are placed in front of us? How are we making a difference?

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Four weeks ago my wife and I spent a week in London and Paris seeing the sites and enjoying an awesome vacation. There is nothing better than a Seine river dinner cruise!

But wait there might be! The first ever JoeBuddeJr.com video post! But wait! Just like shamwow, THERE IS MORE!

You’ve gotta be kidding, you are saying? Nope, no jokes from me today.

So what is the more? Well, the first ever video post is my first take ever, and its all the way from the Champs de Elysee in Paris! Where you ask? Well right here a gentlemen was selling his skill. He would free hand cut out a profile picture of a person. Sure he could spend 10 minutes drawing it out and then cutting it, but when he can free hand it, it’s amazing. Why is that a big deal? Because this guy’s effort could have been to just to finish a neat cut out profile in 30 minutes time, but he took it one step further and left us in awe by doing it in two.

Check it out:

Giving 100% is not Enough

Rebecca happened to be a bit late with her video blog advice so the video is not great by her standards (or mine), but its fun none the less.

What do you think of this artist and his skills? and… What do you think of the video post? Do you think video blogging is my new blogging identity?

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We could all go out and follow some generic advice (generic = terrible) about how to throw a birthday party for a co-worker. Or we could break every etiquette rule about how to buy a gift for a co-worker. But I am not into that.

I want to help you make the most of your office birthday party, because if yours are like mine have been, they really need some work. And for something that happens at least once a month like in my office, its just too often to ignore.

How Do I fix an Office Birthday Party Fiasco?

It’s only awkward if you make it awkward: If you are in a situation, or approach one thinking it will be awkward then it will be. Its time to change your attitude.
In lieu of standing around waiting for someone to be the first one to go pick a cookie or a piece of cake off the table, pick up the cookies/cake and pass them out. It’ll help change everyone else’s attitude since I have changed mine after step number one!
Have an action plan for the dreaded song: I look at people in the eyes when singing happy birthday - even if I’m the birthday boy. It lets everyone know that I am appreciative of their less than stellar vocal abilities.

So those are a few things I do to end the terribleness that is an office birthday party. If you are still a debbie downer on office birthdays I suggest that you celebrate all your office birthdays on one day a year. Think about it. Way less calories, and way less of the awkward effort you put towards choosing what to do while people sing happy birthday to you.

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Boy am I glad I am no longer writing about social media.

Plus, I am even more glad that what I want to write about today is not about “social media” per se. Its about how reputation risk management is on the rise. My friend matt sent it along with this note: “For your blog that is no longer about social media.”

Perfect.

So everyone out there needs to know the stats from the article:

More than 82% of major companies are making a substantial effort to manage reputation risk, and 81% have increased their efforts over the past three years, according to a survey of 148 risk management executives at U.S. and European corporations.

Though social media are gaining influence among consumers and investors evaluating companies, only 34% of the executives surveyed said they regularly monitor social networking sites for information about their companies, and only 10% participate in them.

All of the social media topics I spoke on until my fall out with the subject are important places to manage reputation risk, so we all better be engaging that because we all have to take care of our personal brands using online tools… right?

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Joe Budde Jr.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Program

We Can Make a Difference but Will We?

Giving 100% is Not Enough: A Video Post

How to Improve your Office Birthday Party

An Article That Isn’t About Social Media

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