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"THE CALL TO CONNECTION" SAVE THE DATES! July 22-29, 2005  | Santa Fe & Chaco Canyon | “Renew your spirit in the Powerful Southwest where the echoes of the Anasazi can still be heard in the quiet of the star-filled nights.” |  |
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Our Leadership-in-Action journey to the "Land of Enchantment" includes a rare opportunity to experience the magic of the Southwest, storytelling with Native American teachers, a sweat lodge, river rafting on the Rio Grande, art, drumming, and a 4-day camping and vision quest experience in the magnificence of Chaco Canyon. This 8-day "eduventure" combines the fun of exploring new outer terrains with the depth of developing new inner awareness. If you would like to join Herb and Sylvia on this exciting adventure, call us at (570) 636-3858. Space is limited. CALL TODAY! Read more... |
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Can Spirituality Improve Business? Join Dr. Sylvia Lafair of Creative Energy Options, Inc., Julius Walls of Greyston Bakery and Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and learn how spirituality can improve profits and well-being at the 8th International Symposium on "Business and Spirituality" at Babson College on March 22. This exciting one-day event, filled with interactive, hands-on workshops and motivating messages, is sure to inspire your thinking. You can download the complete flyer HERE
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UNTYING YOUR "KNOTS" Q: Can you explain how becoming a Pattern Aware Leader (PAL) can help me with the tension I experience when I meet with my boss? It feels like a knot in my stomach and it happens every time I get called into his office. A: If you feel a “knot in your stomach” when you talk with your boss, try to get an observation of the situation. “The boss,” in most organizations, is an authority figure. The boss can listen to us, promote us, favor us, ignore us, blame us and sometimes fear us. We report to them, emulate them, like them, dislike them, judge them and sometimes take legal action against them. Part of everyone’s job is to learn the most effective behavior possible to respond to authority. Gaining a new awareness of your patterns will help you gain valuable insights into your own personal reactions to authority and will place you in a more powerful position to choose the most appropriate response in the future. Here is how to begin. Read more...
 Sylvia Lafair, Ph.D. is the President and Co-Founder of Creative Energy Options, Inc. Her long-standing success has come from helping individuals, teams and organizations uncover the habits and patterns that have been the underlying drivers of behavior. She is currently writing a book about patterns in the workplace. If you would like Sylvia to answer your question, e-mail it to info@ceoptions.com |
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PAYING IT FORWARD Paul Curci, Publisher, City Paper, Philadelphia, PA Sometimes the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else, or put it into practice as soon as possible. I had the opportunity to do just that at a retreat I hosted recently. Last August, I invited my management team, which consists of editors, sales directors, a distribution manager, marketing director, systems manager, production director, design director, controller, CFO, and HR manager, to my home in Long Beach Island, New Jersey for a day of meetings. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to accomplish, and how best to maximize this opportunity and have it be an authentic experience. I was conscious that we were about to begin budgeting for a new fiscal year, and considered this a unique opportunity to get everyone’s input and to arrive at some fundamental priorities, which would inform the budgeting process. I kept hearing Herb’s mantra from the Total Leadership Connections (TLC) program over and over--“Be IN-clusive, not EX-clusive”. Read more...
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