Positive Organizational Development Tools

Sarah Lewis and her organization, Appreciating Change aim is to achieve whole system change, with positive and creative solutions working through psychological processes such as emotional engagement, the creative imagination, core values and key strengths. These approaches minimizes the challenges of resistance to change and getting buy-in.  In the podcast we introduce Sarah’s new Positive Read More …

The Art of Recognizing an Invitation

Sarah Lewis’s passion is working with organizations to achieve transformational change using participative, collaborative methods such as Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, World Café and SimuReal. Sarah and her organization, Appreciating Change aim is to achieve whole system change, with positive and creative solutions working through psychological processes such as emotional engagement, the creative imagination, core Read More …

Market towards Opportunity

Last week, I discussed My Current 7 Step Marketing Outline which lays out the outline for what I would call The Funnel of Opportunity.  As I said in that post: In most sales and marketing schemes we like to build what we call a Sales Funnel or Marketing Funnel. In the service world, we have Read More …

Your Internal Collaborative Structure

As the pace and complexity of business has grown traditional organization structures have been flattened through near constant reorganizations. The need for specialization within certain functions seems to prevent further reconciliation. Empowerment within business units and departments to make decisions within their scope of activities has increased, however, we often bump into "sub-optimizing the whole" Read More …

Dealing with Negative People at Work

Work Positive! Last Weeks Podcast guest was Dr. Joey Faucette (@drjoey). Dr. Joey is an internationally known author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Work Positive in a Negative World: Redefine Your Reality and Achieve Your Business Dreams. His career was launched as a 9-year old door to door Christmas card salesman enabling him to purchase Read More …

Working Positive in a less than Perfect World

Dr. Joey Faucette (@drjoey) is the internationally known author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Work Positive in a Negative World: Redefine Your Reality and Achieve Your Business Dreams. He is the founder of Listen to Life, a business coaching company that helps owners, leaders, sales professionals, managers, and others to achieve their business dreams primarily through Read More …