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Workplace conflict and office politics cost companies billions of dollars in lost productivity and health expenses due to stress.

That doesn't have to be the case says workplace expert Sylvia Lafair, award winning author of "Don't Bring It to Work" (Jossey Bass). {The Wall Street Journal recently featured Lafair in an article about the universal issue of bad behavior in the workplace. She was interviewed by Sue Shellenbarger, April 28th, 2010. "How Dad's Yelling Can Spawn an Office Tyrant"}
 

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Dr. Sylvia Lafair's leadership programs, consulting, and coaching, based on her award-winning book "Don't Bring It to Work", offer the way OUT of the swirling, spiraling sensitivities that cause team conflict, low moral, and high blood pressure.

Why do tensions get so dialed up at work? And why don't they ever seem to stop? Because we have been looking in all the wrong places.

Lafair'r research indicates that when stress hits the hot button we all revert to patterns (she explores the 13 most common patterns) learned for safety in our original organization, the family. Here we learned about favoritism, fairness, failure, communication, cooperation, collaboration, and how to get along...or not. So if the boss or co-worker is acting like a baby, they most likely are!


Lafair has developed the OUT Technique. This method helps all executives and thier employees learn to: 
1. Observe their behavior patterns so change can happen in a rapid manner

2. Understand where the behavior came from for deeper and more long lasting change

3. Transform the patterns to their positive and healthy opposite to effectively inspire and lead teams and organizations
   

The OUT Technique helps individuals, teams and whole companies learn to become Pattern Aware. Power games, favoritism, micro inequities, shaming, blaming, judging are replaced with spontaneity, responsibility, fairness, appreciation, cooperation, and accountability. We have seen increases in sales, customer satisfaction, loyalty and decreases in sick days, human resource interventions, and legal hassles.

Being Pattern Aware is the work of 21st Century leaders. Cognitive thinking, emotional intelligence, and relationship dynamics are combined in a user friendly way with a powerful systems' perspective to help you live a better life, at work and at home.

Is your boss a bully who needs to feel important and boosts his ego by withholding important information from you? Or maybe you work with someone who is so fearful of argument or criticism that problems go unsolved because she won't discuss them. -Anne Fisher, Time.com Read Full Text... Wonderful insights for anyone who manages a business, works in a business, or leads a business. Read it now! -Michael E. Gerber, Author, The E-Myth Books Lafair’s book covers psychology, specifically how your family environment affects your work life... Covert, who says he is “not usually a fan of books like this,” gives this one a thumbs up. He cites its compelling discussion of the various roles people adopt, how they disrupt work teams, and for its recommendation of ways to get around them. -Michael Fitzgerald Read Full Text... In my dotage, I have discovered some things—one of them being that, often times, patterns repeat themselves. In Don’t Bring It to Work, Sylvia Lafair contends that negative behavior traits at work can often be traced back to one’s family. And, though being a jokester or a gossip at work can be fun, it can also be very destructive in a team business environment. -Jack Covert Read Full Text... More on the Testimonials page in the Media Room

 

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