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Your attitude speaks volumes before you utter a word. Like your shadow, you often are unaware of it. Your attitude permeates everything about you: the way you think, the tone of your voice, what words you choose, and even how you move your body - your body language. While you may think that your thoughts and feelings are purely private, your body is mirroring and in fact is speaking your mind. What you are thinking and feeling gets translated into your body language, and is very much like those electronic signs with a message that flashes, this time across your forehead. Your body language actually has a larger impact on others than the words you speak. Put it all together and you'll find your attitude sets the tone for how people respond to you. Everyone has experienced the vibes that come off a person. You take one look and you know whether to approach or stay away. Your attitude is born out of a set of conclusions and decisions you have made about a particular person, situation, or your life. Humans like to be "right" about their thoughts and conclusions. If you have a hostile attitude you will experience hostile events in your life and approach people in a hostile way. When you are in a negative frame of mind you are sending negative signals to others and they will respond to your hostile signals in a negative way. Their response will reinforce your conclusion that the world is a negative place. If you have a cheerful attitude, likewise, you will experience events in your life in a way to support your positive conclusions. Your attitude usually resides in your blind spot because most of the time you are focused on your thoughts, not the attitude they are coming from. Why This Book This book was inspired by a corporate workshop called "Choosing Leadership." The pilot workshop was a great success and it has been rolled out to several thousands of people around the world in all types of businesses from sales and retail to biotech and pharmaceuticals, from gold mines and engineering and manufacturing plants to government agencies, educators, and students. Many people wanted a way to deepen and reinforce their learning and share the tools they learned in the workshop with colleagues, family and friends, so this book was born. While elements of leadership and drama are presented as the "classical" models for leadership and drama, the intention of this book is for you to create your individualized and personal versions that have direct meaning in your life. It is important to take any model that you learn and personalize it so that it is uniquely yours. Allow the models that you learn in this book and in your life to inspire your creativity so that you can make them fit your own life. In the appendix you will find a synopsis of the developmental background of ideas presented in this book. Check Your Attitude at the Door complements my first book, Daring to Have Real Conversations in Business, published in May 2009 on Amazon. The Real Conversations book focused primarily on the actions you need to take to have meaningful and productive conversations at work. Check Your Attitude at the Door is actually a prequel to that book in that it focuses on increasing your awareness of yourself so that you can make better choices to improve the quality of every facet of your life. When you can intentionally choose your state of mind the world opens up to you in new and exciting ways.

Attitudes, like viruses are catching. They sweep through organization like a tsunami bringing a waves of productivity or eroding morale. People take their cues of how to feel and react to daily events from each other and especially their leaders. Employees want and need a consistent positive work environment to do their best work. Research has demonstrated that positive feelings enhance performance. They look to their leaders to set the behavioral example of the tone and impact of their interactions. While you may be clear about your company direction and strategy, how clear are you about the attitudes that you carry to work? Many people intend to inspire people to do their best but inadvertently end up intimidating them with their negative attitude. Your attitude speaks volumes before you utter a word. Like your shadow, you often are unaware of it. Your attitude permeates everything about you: the way you think, the tone of your voice, what words you choose, and even how you move your body - your body language. While you may think that your thoughts and feelings are purely private, your body is mirroring and in fact is speaking your mind. What you are thinking and feeling gets translated into your body language, and is very much like those electronic signs with a message that flashes, this time across your forehead. Most people don' t realize that they are communicating a non-verbal message that often may override the words they speak. Most of the time you may think the problem is just the other person who is being defensive when in fact you may be sending signals that are provoking that response. It is not necessarily easy to catch your self and adjust your mindset/attitude. Most people are consumed with the daily fires that flare up and the deadlines that are looming in their future. This book gives people access and tools to become aware and shift to a positive and productive mindset.

Disappointed In Your Team's Results? Are you frustrated because your team doesn't produce results fast enough? Stressed out because you spend your time putting out fires produced by team drama? The 8 Qualities Of Drama Free Teams will give you the tools you need to accomplish more in less time. This practical handbook shows you 8 different leadership strategies you can use today to see immediate changes in your organization. You don't have to tolerate the drama. You can lead a high-trust, high-performance team that produces results. And you can do it without putting in more hours, and without working harder. Inside this book, you'll discover: - The one coaching question that causes people to take personal responsibility. - A proven feedback formula that creates behavioral change. - How to unlock the 4 drivers of human motivation to help your team get more done in less time. Read The 8 Qualities Of Drama Free Teams and start doing more, with less stress, and zero drama.

Daring to Have the Real conversations in Business 1. You have a unique set of talents, capabilities, and perspectives. Yet, your value dissipates if you remain silent. 2. Why end your day with the disappointment that comes from biting your tongue, selling yourself short and playing it safe? 3. Wouldn't you rather engage in Real Conversations and go home satisfied? 4. In this book, you'll learn from stories and read strategies about how to get what's in your head out on to the table in a productive way. Real Conversations are one of the most important kinds of interactions that can take place between people, whether at home with your spouse, partner or child, or at work with your boss, manager, or employee. Most people tend to shy away from engaging in conversations that may be uncomfortable. You may think that you do not want to cause undue pain to others or yourself, but inside you know that much has gone unspoken. If you are like most people, ultimately, you want to operate from a deeper truth with more humanity and openness. At a systemic level in businesses, we have seen over and over how once the truth has finally been spoken, the whole system "sighs with relief" and then relaxes. The world turns more smoothly and peacefully in the frame of the truth. Real Conversations are powerful vehicles for engagement and transformation; they jump-start people into action and connection. Daring to Have Real Conversations in Business focuses on building communication skills that result in great leadership and enhanced business relationships. Having Real Conversations maximizes your effectiveness and the performance of your team. These conversations engage people and enhance accountability, creativity, alignment, and achievement. You optimize performance by telling people where they stand, what they are doing well and what they need to do to get back on course. Real Conversations create more freedom, more choices, more productivity, and they build a foundation of trust that is essential for high performance.

Six neighborhood friends play together at the Oak Street Tree House. One Saturday they take the tablet used for playing games and send a message to God. They want to know who He really is. God replies and sends them on three neighborhood field trips to look at different parts of creation. They report back on all they find, and God replies each time saying, "I made that all just for you." Through their adventures they learn of God's love. At the end of the story God asks them to take good care of all they have seen so other children can also enjoy what He has created.