Destination Work!

By Harry Paul and Ross Reck, is the story of Nancy Kim, a human resources director at a magazine that is struggling with all the problems associated with unhappy employees. She openly challenges the CEO's new management-by-the-number system, and helps in turning the situation immediately, by following what is done at Value First; Mid way airport by Jac in Biz Trenz.

1. Better the employees are treated the harder they'll work.

2. Happy employees: Smile more, Have more fun, Work harder, Work better with fellow employees, Are more loyal, Love their boss,

3.Destination work:

Focus on people as well as performance numbers; Motivate with trust instead of fear. The four Bs for motivating with Trust:
Be Real
Behave the same way around employees as with family and friends-treat them as equals, no subordinates.
Be Appreciative
Make a point to notice when an employee is doing a super job and be sure to tell them 'Thank You'.
Be Interested
Ask employees questions about them and their jobs.
Listen to what they say. Take action when appropriate.
Ask follow-up questions. Ask their opionion on things.
Don't talk about yourself. But let them get to know you.
Be Nice
Smile
Say something that brightens each persons day.

4. Turn work into fun: As a manager you should be able to pitch in at every place, and get anything done spreading joy. Show respect and care.

5. Senior Management must execute Destination work, with frontline employees. They should step out of the comfort zone. Communicate openly and honestly. Remove fear. Be visible and accessible. Let there be smile on others face when they see you. Show support for new ideas.

6. Show anyone how to turn the workplace into a distination-a place where working hard feels like hardly working because it's engaging, enjoyable and fulfilling. Hearding Cats is not difficult, because people get what they want,

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I met my Soul in a Coffee Shop...

Yet another Sharyn gift from UK; posted by the author Louise Gilbert from New Zealand!

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated." John Donne

There are Nine purpose profile and one has all nine;

The first is courage to create the vision and to take the first step, which ultimately takes you through the nineth, which accumulates the totality of the experience.

As a soul manifestation of the spiritual universe, you lack nothing and as such, each profile collectively express the whole. Your uniqueness manifests through a dynamic and emerging blend of these profiles. Each of these profiles are required in any change occuring in life or work.

The cycle of change is:

1. Inspired Idea. Require courage and independence. - Courage - Leader
2. Supporting the vision. Require strength and resilence. - Co-Operation - Supporter
3. Creating outcomes. Require creative expression. - Creativity - Creator
4. Building Foundation. Require focus and discipline. - Foundation - Builder
5. Promoting Expansion. Require freedom and flexibility. - Freedom - Promoter
6. Nurturing Beauty. Require love and acceptance. - Fertility - Teacher
7. Seeking Truth. Require Knowledge and faith. - Reflect - Seeker
8. Managing the outcome. Require balance of heart and mind. - Return - Manager
9. Serving the Vision. Require release of ownership. - Release - Server

These profiles can also be called archetypes because they are a universal fabric of existence that is symbolically recognised as present within everyone - it is these profiles through which the reason for your existence is expressed.

Depending on what you are here to do, you may be driven to transform some areas of your life more than others. Yet every area of your life cannot help but be transformed by the clarity and authenticity of you.

These areas are:

1. Time for self: The time you are able to spend focusing on you, as an individual; doing the things you want to do.

2. Relationship: The quality of the relationships you have built with people in your life.

3. Meaningful Work: The extent to which you are engaged in meaningful work that enables you to share your qualities, skills and natural talents.

4. Health: How healthy you are; how strong, supple and resilient your body is to the needs of your environment.

5. Personal Expansion: The level of freedom you have to grow and expand into new things; to learn, to experience variety and be flexible about your life choices.

6. Love: The love you have present in your life; your love for yourself and others.

7. Spirituality: The time you spend in stillness; honouring the sacred and symbolic, discovering and celebrating truth, either as religious or spiritual experience.

8. Wealth: The amount of wealth you have in your life; being in the flow of abundance, of giving and receiving.

9. Charitable Service: The service you offer unconditionally to others as charitable pursuits or the difference you make in your environment.

When the collective whole consisting of each area of life is in balance, an open active channel for perfect and purposeful action is created. Consider the extent of your satisfaction in each of these areas. On a scale of one to ten, how satisfied are you? Consider which purposeful profiles have a desire, a longing and clear presence in any of these areas. Your full potential is the expression of these profiles, in your life, in natural balance.

The book is a conversation between soul and self, or the author and George; there is the conversation, assimilaiton, introduction, purpose, chane, question, affirmation and words for each of the 9 purpose in the book.