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Ever notice that even though companies spend billions of dollars each year on programs for team activities and team building in the workplace, interpersonal conflicts continue to cause stress and unhappiness?
Did you ever think “I wish my direct reports or co-workers would stop with their sob stories?” “I can’t listen to one more complaint”, or “Why can’t they just do their jobs and go home?”
JOIN THE THOUSANDS who have revolutionized the way they react at work by getting to the bottom of workplace behaviors that waste time and effort.
This award-winning book is a radical departure from others on leadership development, employee engagement, or entrepreneurial success. It goes where no other book has gone before, and looks at how behavior patterns developed in our original organization, the family impact how we respond at work.
Once you learn to look and listen for the signs of old behaviors getting in the way of productivity you can get OUT of the chaos and conflict fast and be a better leader, better mentor, and better teammate.
Sylvia Lafair has not only the background of knowledge and professional experience to write this exciting book, “Don’t Bring It to Work”, she also is a solid writer who understands how to capture attention and maintain interest in both self improvement and understanding as well as how to take the information gleaned from this book to the workplace. ~Grady Harp, Top Ten Reviewer for Amazon Read Full Review at Amazon.com In this book Sylvia Lafair explains how to break certain family patterns that limit career success by “claiming and taming the world of interpersonal relationships”. ~Robert Morris, Top Ten Reviewer for Amazon Read Full Review at Amazon.com Sylvia Lafair has provided us with a really wonderful book that helps us understand how the interpersonal dynamics we learned in our family must affect the way we interact with others at work. ~Craig Matteson Read Full Review at Amazon.com
Sylvia Lafair has not only the background of knowledge and professional experience to write this exciting book, “Don’t Bring It to Work”, she also is a solid writer who understands how to capture attention and maintain interest in both self improvement and understanding as well as how to take the information gleaned from this book to the workplace. ~Grady Harp, Top Ten Reviewer for Amazon Read Full Review at Amazon.com
In this book Sylvia Lafair explains how to break certain family patterns that limit career success by “claiming and taming the world of interpersonal relationships”. ~Robert Morris, Top Ten Reviewer for Amazon Read Full Review at Amazon.com
Sylvia Lafair has provided us with a really wonderful book that helps us understand how the interpersonal dynamics we learned in our family must affect the way we interact with others at work. ~Craig Matteson Read Full Review at Amazon.com
Research shows that changing a behavior pattern takes up to three months. This companion to “Don’t Bring It to Work” is just that, a three month book of daily exercises to make sure the behaviors that have been derailing you are put to bed forever.
In this-fast paced world we need ways to get from “now” to “new” in the snap of a finger. Most of the exercises here are under five minutes a day and are guaranteed to make change happen. All you need to do is simply start the day by using just five minutes to RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN.
Those who have made the commitment to banish antiquated behaviors have reported that when stress shows up it takes but seconds for them to see and hear their old ways and bid them au revoir.
“I was in the initial practice group to help see if these exercises worked. They do. I have learned to anchor new, more effective ways of responding and to stay in the present rather than go back to old knee-jerk ways of getting even. I have more time for creative projects now than ever before.” ~Mikayla Lev “Never thought I would do the whole three months; yet, when the time was up I decided to start over and was surprised that I learned even more the second time around. Highly recommended. ~Mark Siegel
“I was in the initial practice group to help see if these exercises worked. They do. I have learned to anchor new, more effective ways of responding and to stay in the present rather than go back to old knee-jerk ways of getting even. I have more time for creative projects now than ever before.” ~Mikayla Lev
“Never thought I would do the whole three months; yet, when the time was up I decided to start over and was surprised that I learned even more the second time around. Highly recommended. ~Mark Siegel
Available in January 2012.
Women in business and women business leaders are at the leading edge of change these days. It is an exciting time to see how women are helping to transform the work world.
GUTSY takes women through the various stages of growth and development from infant to adult. Fascinating insights occur about family, culture and crises and the capacity to be GUTSY, to speak out, to be women activists for new and better ways of relating.
This book is a call to women and men at work to understand the differences in how we see and hear the world, how we relate based on biology, culture, and desire. The book is in three sections for women (and men who can learn a great deal about the females in their lives). Section one is to OBSERVE what historical influences have shaped us. Section two is to UNDERSTAND the ebb and flow of our specific dynamics, and section three is to TRANSFORM ourselves and the world of work for this complex and fast-paced century.
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Chapters, by leading mentors in the coaching community, includes Sylvia’s perspective about the power of understanding relationships as a key to authenticity in the workplace. She also touches on how her core program, Total Leadership Connections, can free individuals to face impossible challenges and become unstoppable.
This anthology has a chapter entitled “The Inside Out Project” which shows how we can learn to understand diversity by listening to each other’s stories. It shows the challenge of going back far enough to see how so many of our present beliefs were formed. It is the story of an African American named Nancy and her quest to look at her own prejudices and how she could become more open and willing to be part of her work community without always looking for slights she could label discrimination.
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This 40-minute video is a fast paced presentation to see how the 13 most common behavior patterns at work can get in the way of productivity and collaboration. It comes with a study guide so it can be used for teams to watch and discuss. Once these patterns are brought to light it is easy for individuals to see their part in difficult situations and know what to do about it.
