Author Archive for Joel Martin
Author and Consultant with over 20 years of executive coaching, workforce development and building leadership development programs around the world.
Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA
The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]
African Native Americans
An important group of men and women has been left with no box to check in the 2010 Census: Native Americans with African origins. The 2010 Census provides us with boxes to check for gender – male, female, other questions, and race. Question #8 asks “Is the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?” and offers 4 boxes of [...]
Celebrate Haiti’s significant contribution to our world, as you give.
In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti’s vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today — as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust
If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant
I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… is [...]
AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers
Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]
Respectful Aging LGBT Services
Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation:
Use the client’s terms: Reflecting [...]
The Responsible Life — A Positive Start to the Year
So how do we live the responsible life. To begin with we can start with having purposeful conversations. Conversation that produce an understanding of what is really import to each of us.
How To Turn Your Contacts Into Contracts!
Be persistent. Keep knocking on the door. There are a lot of gate-keepers. Never give up! Know the culture of the company you want to work with. Go online, speak to employees, ask what the core values are to be prepared to show your expertise in ways that it will be readily received.
What does Diversity look like today?
This is a pause for the cause – a different way of viewing the dimensions of diversity. Diversity, it has often been said, goes beyond race and gender. It includes generations, race, gender, organizational diversity, nationality, culture, recreational habits, personality and more. At the heart of it, regardless of their dimensions, is a human being [...]
Not Always in our Best Interest
There are some things that we are pretty sure of, things that we know work and are are good for us. Yet we go out of our way to support efforts that are clearly not good and that serve to undermine what it is that we know will work. We continue to promote foods that [...]
