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Thoughtful Quotes
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
Ernest Hemingway
"It is the ability to focus our attention that raises capacity, productivity and signals to others that we are engaging with our whole self."
Catherine Mullally
"An atmosphere where it is safe to express differing different points of view and where there is freedom to dissent fosters powerful collaborative relationships."
Lisa Giruzzi
"To create WE, we can't simply focus on the our existing rules and demand others follow them.. Instead we must imagine what could be and harness the collective intelligence of our people, breaking old mental models to think and act differently for outrageous possibilities!"
Michelle Boos-Stone
"Start with YES reminds us of the value of accepting and building on offers, rather than blocking them."
Louise van Rhyn
"Team members excelled in their individual assignments because the definition for their success was shaped by connectivity and collective purpose."
Jane M. Hewson
"WE-centric thinking holds that we are all part of something bigger than ourselves. This being the case, your actions reflect not only on you personally, they are a reflection of the various groups with which you are associated."
Bud Bilanich
"Sometimes we hesitate telling the real truth to people for fear we will hurt their feelings or ruin a relationship irreparably. Sometimes we don't tell the truth because we're not sure how."
Charles Jones
"If we can catch a 'bad mood virus,' we can transmit one too. Or, we can radiate a 'great mood virus.' The choice is ours."
Nancy Ring
"Maximize the individual, create a community of people, and define the purpose."
Cindy Tortorici
"When we seek to mine for value, WE endow meaning to each member beyond merely their function, and we inspire them to contribute their full potential."
Dale Kramer Cohen
"Focus on creating WE around the most powerful feature of your organization: one that truly exemplifies your brand - while differentiating and distinguishing it among all others."
Brian Penry
"If we learn to refrain from trying to change others or to impose our truths on others, something positive and amazing happens. "
Whit Raymond &
Judith E. Glaser
"Forgiveness practices promoted a WE-centric community built upon principles of appreciative discovery, co-creating inspiration, generative thinking and team synergy."
Josephine Washington
"Presentations, training, mission statements, road shows, and lectures, or even audits, will not make people embrace anything."Jerry Manas
"Everything we are and everything we become is from a single beacon - The Torch of Integrity."
Deborah E. Garand
"We work so hard create a positive relationship, but it can be damaged in a moment with a thoughtless message."
Deborah Dumaine"Like
many successful leaders, you can learn how changing our approach to stress can
change our lives."
Bruce Cryer
Special thanks to
Rami Glatt & Carla Rood
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Greetings!
Welcome to our newsletter - The DNA of Leadership.
Every month, we will be bringing you new ideas to think about, new
practices to experiment with, and new thoughts on topics such as changing organizational culture, creative team development and leadership assessment and development to inspire you.
Welcome new readers! We are delighted that you are interested in learning more about Creating WE leadership. We are confident that you will find our monthly newsletter informative and always welcome your feedback.
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Can I Trust You?
As long as we feel we are gaining, not losing, we play as WE. However, our fear is that someone will get more. The fear is always: I'll trust you and then you'll stick me in the back.
 Even though most of us value being considered a partner, the ability to work together interdependently is one of our least-developed skills. This skill is so vital that, in its absence, good leaders turn bad, good executives become ineffective, and good colleagues turn into adversaries. The skill of opening up to others - and of creating the emotional space for others to open up to us - requires deep trust. Trust is the most precious of the golden threads. Without it, there can be no WE.
When we open up WE to include partners outside of our conventional thinking, we encompass stakeholders and allies beyond the traditional boundaries of the enterprise - including vendors, customers, and donors. We expand the way we work and how we generate value. After all these years, we are starting to see how shifting boundaries - throwing the net wider - is a way to achieve alliances in a new way. With the golden thread of trust, we can weave our lives together like a beautiful tapestry.
 WE-centric relationships are built on trust. I trust you will not harm me, and you trust I will not harm you. When we have that level of trust we do no't feel the need to duck into protective behaviors. We automatically assume a mutual support, and we move forward from there.
When we experience doubt about the good intentions of others, for whatever reason, we need to recognize the importance of having the kind of conversations that bring us back to trust. Creating the space for open dialogues enables us to reclaim trust with others.
5 Vital Questions
There are 5 vital questions that, if not addressed on an explicit level, will be working 'behind the scenes' eroding trust at every corner.
- How do I protect myself?
- Who loves me, who hates me?
- Where do I belong, where do I and fit in?
- What do I need to learn to be successful?
- How do I create value with others?
 As we interact with others, we are asking and answering these 5 Vital Questions with every interaction. Our human communication system with others is designed to send energy out and get an answer back. As we send out these questions in the form of direct questions or indirect messages to others, we calculate our 'coordinates with others' and navigate either with them or against them. When we are seeing to understand where we stand with others, we are listening, I-centrically. Once we get these questions answered we energetically shift into a "WE-centric" relationship and trust will emerges.
Co-creating a Book is Like Giving Birth!
The 5 Big Questions are key to the health of a relationship, team and organization. These fundamental questions are what propelled a team of us - 18 coaches, consultants, and practitioners at the Creating WE Institute - to do an experiment in co-creation and trust building. We decided to work on writing a book together!
When we started our co-creating conversations, we didn't know what each other was thinking about - we trusted we would find a way to build a conversational space for our best ideas to emerge - and we did.
We didn't know what we would do if we had conflicting ideas that would conflict, or too many ideas. We trusted we would find a way to work through it, and we did.
We didn't know if our ideas were strong enough of big enough, yet as we listened to each other's ideas, and became inspired by what others had to say - we did.
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September 17th - Our Book's Due Date!
 I am so excited about this book, I simply cannot wait to share some of the great sage advice from my team members with all of you. My colleagues have taught me so much about human behavior, and what it takes to trust that others will come through - even when the challenges seem bigger than any you have faced before.
I have learned that whenever you are working with others - people will hold different perspectives about what success looks like. When you disagree; there are ways to still stay on track with others to sustain trust, candor, integrity and caring all at the same time.
Our writing project has spawned a wonderful 162-page book that will soon be published. It's full of stories and practical advice for how to sustain trust, strengthen relationships and work through difficult issues with others. From integrity and candor, to saying it like it is, from how to create shared meaning and be consciously contagious, to how to walk in others' shoes.
Stay tuned for the next newsletter - and mark September 17th on your calendar for our book launch. We would love to have you be a part of our launch ...
Mark you calendar for September 17th!
On that day we'll send you a special link for friends, colleagues and clients to buy the book - and also receive a special download about The Neuroscience of WE, with more interesting neuro-tips to share with others to build trust at work.
Follow us on Facebook to share in the excitement and stay updated on the progress of our book
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Fascinating Neuro-Tips
 Inclusion - Exclusion: Experiments show that people who feel socially excluded, or remember a time that they did, have a greater desire for warm food and drinks, or estimate a lower room temperature than those who feel included.
- Bonding at Work: Once you have an insight, you never go back. Literally, cells are changed. A restructuring occurs within the brain that doesn't allow for the old way of thinking. Co-creating conversations that trigger insights create a higher level of bonding between the two people engaged.
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Getting to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depend on the quality of conversations.
Everything happens through conversation!
Judith E. Glaser
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