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Make Better Decisions – Why Managers Violate Natural Laws

Make Better Decisions – Why Managers Violate Natural Laws

How the Study of Human Nature Can Guide Managers to Make Better Decisions Everyone seems to know about natural laws and the consequences of violating those laws. Take the law of gravity. You trip – you fall; you roll out of bed – you are rudely awakened; you step off a cliff – you die. Everyone knows this and everyone is incessantly accountable to working with the law of gravity to avoid ...
How to Start a Relationship Safely

How to Start a Relationship Safely

Don't Lose Yourself After years of consistently hearing about the misery, and the sad after-effects of bad relationships, Joann and I decided that it was critical to write a guide to help people prevent the pain of these easy to avoid situations. When you read this Relationship Guide you will be prepared to experience a safe and healthy relationship…and never lose “YOU” in the process. ...
Find a Business Coach – Three Elements of a Good Coaching Experience

Find a Business Coach – Three Elements of a Good Coaching Experience

The best athletes in the world get coached – why? To get better. The “Top” is a moving target. You don’t get coached primarily for training or just to fix a problem. You get coaching and you keep getting coaching to provide the constant renewal needed to be the best and stay the best. Often, we have difficulty getting better…alone. Though there are many aspects of growth and development we ...
Being Rooted

Being Rooted

https://vimeo.com/742386243 Just a Minute Transcript There are so many lessons in nature. The one I want to bring to you at this moment, the one I'm thinking about at this moment, is simply being rooted, just like these trees. If they're not grounded deeply, if they're not rooted in something, they will not survive. We have some pretty healthy wind storms up here sometimes in ...
Look Where You Land

Look Where You Land

Video Transcript https://vimeo.com/693548493 When an athlete performs some kind of maneuver where they're in the air, and they're twisting and turning, if you watch them, you'll notice that before they land, they look where they're going to land. There's a lesson in acrobatics, in gymnastics… Look where you want to land. And then you'll land where you want to look. That's a ...
Party with a Purpose

Party with a Purpose

https://vimeo.com/708632712 Video Transcript How would you like to party with a purpose? We have a four-stage, a four-part, process for celebration when a team achieves something that is meaningful, that is actually improving the team as you celebrate. The four steps whenever you find an achievement you want to celebrate, are these: First, the party factor. That's important. ...
Plant More Grass

Plant More Grass

https://vimeo.com/685934138 Video Transcript When I was young, I did a lot of work. I did a lot of side jobs. I worked my way through school, through college. I didn't have any other money to rely on. So I had to work to get the money that I was spending in my everyday life, and also what I needed to live and to go to school. Part of my work was to do yard work. I did yard ...
Don’t Think of a Watermelon

Don’t Think of a Watermelon

https://vimeo.com/691813918 Video Transcript If you want to fix or correct behavior or negativity, don't focus on what you DON'T want. Focus on what you DO want. Why? Because the human mind can't process negative without engaging in it. If I say "Don't think of a watermelon", you've got to think of a watermelon, as I say don't think of it. The only way to keep you from ...
Four Reasons for Lack of Follow Through

Four Reasons for Lack of Follow Through

https://vimeo.com/706267918 Video Transcript There are four reasons why somebody wouldn't follow through: Lack of awareness. Lack of training. Lack of resources. And lack of accountability. The first one, some glitch in the communication to get the person to do it. Something wasn't spoken clearly or heard clearly. Lack of training is obvious - they don't know how to do ...
Pay Attention to the Little Things

Pay Attention to the Little Things

https://vimeo.com/714229085 Video Transcript You know, I've played guitar all of my life. Since I was 6 years old, I've strummed the guitar. Then I learned to play lead. And I realized that what makes a beautiful song is not the big things it's the little things. You can misplace one finger on a chord and it messes up the sound of that chord, which then messes up the whole ...
Practice Listening

Practice Listening

https://vimeo.com/711303627 Video Transcript Listening is a much more important part of the communication process than talking. When a person does not feel listened to, they don't feel valued. They feel distant. They don't want to engage. They don't necessarily want to be forthcoming. Listening is so so important. You hear people being complimented saying "They're a good ...