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Who you are is your advantage

Greetings!

Start with yourself.

This may be the central-most principle in supporting change in a work culture. (I was blessed to realize this close to the beginning of my professional journey.)

As we shape ourselves to be more vital and effective and focused on positive change, our singular efforts influences others and amplifies their own efforts. This is especially true for the person right next to us.

Our current economic climate is discouraging. But, the ace in-the-hole we possess is all we've ultimately got: our self. Challenging times call forth an enlightened effort to exemplify, and, "be the change we want to see."

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Have great days,

Leslie

Ins & Outs of Motivation and much more...

Leslie Yerkes has been teaching courses in the executive education program at The Weatherhead School of Management's Dively Center for many years. Her classes represent the intensive version of public speaking about the same subjects. Several years ago she began teaching two section: Managing For Motivation, and, Managing the Generations.

Leslie fits her experiential learning approach to two broad frameworks about motivation. One is to bring in her long-standing understanding about the whole person at work, the second is to differentiate what some of the generational differences are with respect to leading and motivating today's diverse, inter-generational workforce.

Leslie Yerkes

Leslie is co-author of the best selling 301 Ways to Have Fun at Work (Berrett-Koehler) and is the author of Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work (Berrett-Koehler); Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times or Bad (Jossey-Bass) ; They Just Don't Get It: Changing Resistance Into Understanding (Berrett-Koehler); and in 2008, Beyond Kicks Carrots: Motivation for the 21st Century (Norma Sustenere Publishers.) Fun Works, published in a revised edition in 2007, is considered a cornerstone of the research and work in the field of the positive, high performance workplace.

As always, these subjects and much more are used as topics for her keynote speaking. For more info: funworks@catalystconsulting.net - 216.791-7802

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