Seeing Red Cars - Driving to a Positive Future Webinars

 

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We live in times of dynamic change.  Leaders need to to guide their organizations to a positive future. We are committed to providing opportunities and resources that will enable your team to not only look towards the future, but create and implement positive change.  

If you want to combat negativity, create a mindset of focus and positive momentum to meet the challenges of change in your organization... then you need a Seeing Red Cars Mindset. 

Seeing Red Cars - Driving to a Positive Future

Join author Laura Goodrich in a dynamic, interactive webinar, expanding on the Seeing Red Cars Concept. Be sure the take a peek at the film here.  www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com

Here you will learn What a Seeing Red Cars Methodology is.  Why we focus on what we fear.  How to turn fear into a focus that moves you and others in a positive direction.  Why it’s critically important for people in positions of influence to personally develop a Seeing Red Cars mindset and how to help colleagues and partners to do the same. Which attributes will mark the most successful organizations, individuals, and teams. 

 Set the course:  View the Seeing Red Cars film here before the webinar. www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com 

 

Thursday, March 15, 10:00am CDT - Register Here http://ow.ly/9vYZ0   

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Tuesday, March 27, 10:00 CDT - Register Here http://ow.ly/9vZ3e 

Deepen Your Learning with the Seeing Red Cars - Advanced Online Experience.  www.srcadvancedexperience.com

 

Laura Goodrich 
Future Maker - Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker
TV l Radio l Program Host
PAVING THE TRAIL TO THE FUTURE
Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work! 
Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com
Website: www.onimpactproductions.com, www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com
All other contact info here: http://about.me/laurajgoodrich

 

 

Superintendants: Leading schools today calls for a unique and profound leadership profile.

We are at a place of transformation and few industries will be exempt!  Transforming education will require brave and bold leadership.  Creating the opportunitity for innovation and collaboration is critical.  Peer to peer learning is a powerful way to influence behavior and to ensure there is enough gas in the tank to endure the journey! 

A tip of the hat to BOSS! 

Laura Goodrich

 

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/12/prweb9065415.htm

 

Board of School Superintendents Announces Cohort Learning to Reduce Stress and Isolation of School District Leaders

School Superintendents are constantly attacked and diminished by many stakeholders. This issue is only accelerating as districts are challenged with depleting resources. BOSS aims to reverse this through cohort learning.

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Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) December 30, 2011

School Administrators continue to be under great stress as they conduct the leadership work necessary to improve public education. In a recent national survey conducted by American Association of School Administrators(AASA, 2010), Superintendents report the highest levels of stress in history.

Board of School Superintendents, has seen that this ongoing stress leads to isolation of the School District Superintendent and hinders growth and improvement in public schools. Beyond the personal costs, stress and isolation contributes to superintendent turnover. In some school districts a new superintendent is hired every two or three years. Turnover leads to inconsistency of action and ultimately the chronic under performance of public schools.

BOSS will provide cohort learning and coaching for active school superintendents as the solution to stress and isolation. Isolation takes a physical and emotional toll. Isolation encourages personal defensiveness and potential unhealthy responses to stress. The greater the isolation the less effective the school superintendent becomes. A way out of this common trap is to find a safe place to confide with other leaders. This moves the superintendent from the conditions of fatigue, drained, worn out, down, low energy, and depressed to the abundance of energy, creativity, engagement, courage, and strength.

“Leading schools today calls for a unique and profound leadership profile. A leader that can achieve high results for all students while simultaneously eliminating the achievement gap. Keeping a focus on this goal while also navigating multiple agendas can lead to exhaustion and isolation for any superintendent. BOSS is a place for superintendents to meet together, problem solve, learn and generate and sustain positive, proactive leadership. It's a place that will compel the moral imperative and change that superintendents need today as they work in partnership to achieve results," says Dr. Melissa Krull, a Minnesota Chair for BOSS.

Gary Cohen, CEO and Co-founder of BOSS says, “You cannot address the major issues facing public schools today if the superintendent is withdrawn, worn out and feeling diminished. We believe that in order to provide the required leadership development for School Superintendents so they lead adaptive changes in public schools, you must first address the emotional isolation and stress.”

“School Superintendents who join a Board of School Superintendent Cohort become engaged with other school superintendents who are experiencing similar job stress and isolation. Through a time tested and research based model for cohort learning, BOSS Fellows find their leadership performance improves by reducing the deleterious effects of stress and isolation. The level of confidentiality within this group provides a safe place for leaders to learn while doing a very difficult job,” says Dr. Mark Wolak, President of BOSS.

BOSS partners with national and state organizations, both public and private, who share the commitment to develop leaders and improve outcomes for students in public education.

If you would like more information about Board of School Superintendents please go to BOSS or call 612-204-2044. Board of School Superintendents (BOSS) strategic mission is to Elevate Learners by Elevating Leaders. BOSS is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and founded by Gary B. Cohen and Dr. Mark A. Wolak.

“Developing Leaders, Driving Change and Improving Outcomes”

HR - Help managers make better people decisions, and enhance the quality of the dialogue with employees.

It's time to improve the management/employee interaction. HR - Your job is to help managers make better people decisions, and enhance the quality of the dialogue with employees. HR professionals must ask the questions... “Am I really helping managers to manage more effectively?” and “Am I impacting the employment experience of the employee?”

 

Insights from Taleo.

http://www.taleo.com/talent-management-blog/2011/12/13/three-key-themes-that-...

 

 

Three Key Themes that Emerged from Taleo Europe 2011

by Chris Phillips | December 13, 2011

Taleo Europe 2011

The first ever Taleo Europe customer conference took place in Paris on Tuesday 8th – Wednesday 9th November. With a turnout of almost 300 customers, partners and media, it was a huge success and a lot of fun too! We definitely plan to hold Taleo Europe on an annual basis in future years. One of the great pleasures from the two days for me was that I had the opportunity to have a lot of interesting discussions in a short period of time. In this post I will distill down some of the key themes from both the formal presentations and the informal chat around the (extremely tasty!) Parisian canapés.

1. Business Management and Talent Management Are Converging

Several of the speakers (Michael Gregoire Taleo’s CEO, Laurent Geoffroy of Alcatel-Lucent and Thomas Otter from Gartner) explored this theme, and there were several levels to this discussion. At the macro-organisational level this is about strategic workforce planning. A part of planning for any business strategy should be to plan the impact on the workforce who is going to have to execute that strategy. Do we have the leadership? Do we have the skills needed? Are our best people in the highest impact areas of the workforce?

Taleo Europe 2011 - Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire

However, there is a more operational level at which business and talent management is converging. It is based on the realization that in practice talent is best managed by managers not by HR. The business impact of ‘talent management’ activities sponsored by HR is orders of magnitude greater when they improve the quality of the management/employee interaction. It forces talent management professionals to ask themselves questions like “Am I really helping managers to manage more effectively?” and “Am I materially impacting the employment experience of the employee?”

So just like workforce planning becomes a part of business planning, so talent management becomes a part of day-to-day operational management. The role of HR then becomes to help managers in the business get better at it. Several customers told me that such a mindset shift forces you to start to think more in terms of decision support and less about process. The focus shifts away from making sure managers complete processes like annual reviews or hiring in a timely fashion. You begin to think more in terms of helping managers make better people decisions, and enhancing the quality of the dialogue they have with their employees.

Taleo Europe 2011 - Taleo CEO Michael GregoireAnd that brings me on to the second major theme…

2. The Need For Better ‘Talent Intelligence’ Is Driving Suite Adoption

One powerful way to help a manager make better decisions is to make sure that they are armed with better data or better ‘talent intelligence.’ It is true in every other area of the business and it is true when it comes to people/talent management. Relevant data, put into context, arms a manager with the insight needed to make more informed decisions. Further, when a manager sits down to talk to a current or potential employee that dialogue will be more honest, objective, and productive if both of them have the relevant facts at hand.

Thomas Otter made the point in his excellent presentation that HR and data analytics have not always been natural bedfellows! It certainly raises some questions about the skills that HR will need going forward. It also spotlights the challenges that many organisations have just getting access to the data. Most companies have evolved their systems to be focused on individual processes like recruiting, performance reviews, learning, etc. But if I am a manager I want to be able to understand all the relevant information about an individual if I am to make the right decision about them. If I can’t see all the information about someone in one place I am likely not to bother looking and fall back on my gut feel and personal observations. It is not surprising then that many customers are looking for a more unified, manager- and employee-friendly approach to their talent management systems.

And in fact it’s worse than that. In many organisations, an increasing amount of the information about each individual doesn’t even exist in any system, which brings us to the third major trend…

3. Mobile Devices and Social Networks Are Changing The Way We Work

Several of the presenters talked about the rise of consumer technologies like mobile smartphones and social (or often professional) networks. If talent management means helping managers to manage better, then you really need to give them the tools where it’s convenient to use them. And that increasingly means on their smartphone or through their chosen social and professional networking sites. You also have to make sure that any technology tools you provide are as easy to use as their day-to-day experience of Google, Amazon or Linked-In.

Several people I spoke with were very excited about this because it turns the threatening world of rapidly evolving mobile devices and external social networks into a huge opportunity for HR. If you can give managers and employees useful, easy to use tools that enhance the quality of management for both sides, then they will likely use them…every day. You can then start to collect and consolidate massive amounts of useful data, which in turn enables you to provide better talent management services. A true virtuous circle.

So it seems that all three of these themes are interrelated. At heart they all boil down to an understanding that really influencing the business means improving the way people are managed on a day-to-day basis.

Cultivate Your Creativity

I really love these creativity exercises!  They are simple and easy to complete!  

The most creative and innovative people and organizations will WIN, especially going forward. It's that simple.  Trouble is, we're running from meeting to meeting and not doing  things with our minds that foster ideas and great innovation.  

Time to incorporate activities like these into your day!  You'll be grateful in the long run!  

Here's to creativity and innovation!  Here’s to a positive future.  

Laura 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=creativity-cultivation-unl...

Thank you Scientific American!  

Laura Goodrich 

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Future Maker - Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker

 

TV l Radio l Program Host

 

PAVING THE TRAIL TO THE FUTURE

 

Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work! 

 

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com

Website: www.onimpactproductions.com, www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com

Mobile: 952-240-1516

SKYPE: laura.goodrich 

All other contact info here: http://about.me/laurajgoodrich

Driving to a Positive Future - Club Entrepreneur Minneapolis

MN Friends: Hope to see you!  October 6th Club Entrepreneur - Driving to a Positive Future http://ow.ly/6AxBg

 

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October 6th Club Entrepreneur - Driving to a Positive Future

A great kick-off session to the fourth season of Club Entrepreneur as we had 84 attendees in September, and October looks to be fabulous as well. Thus please join us from 11:30 - 1:00 on Thursday October 6th as author, speaker and internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, Laura Goodrich, Co-Founder of On Impact, presents "Driving to a Positive Future." To learn more about our speaker and her business, visit www.onimpactproductions.com.

Please RSVP to attend this lunch session.... To make reservations contact the Front Desk team of the Mpls. Club at 612.332.2292 or email at concierge@mplsclub.org. Lunch is $25 and includes parking in the attached ramp off of 8th Street (south side of the Mpls. Club.) For directions and other information on the Minneapolis Club, visit www.mplsclub.com. See you then.

 

Laura Goodrich 

Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker

TV l Radio l Program Host

Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work and Life! 

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com

Website: www.onimpactproductions.com

Business: 952-856-6071

Mobile: 952-240-1516

SKYPE: laura.goodrich 

OOVOO: Laura Goodrich

About Laura: http://about.me/laurajgoodrich

Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars 

Film and Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com

Book Video: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3PE5HUKRUKIKZ/ref=ent_fb_link

San Francisco Book Festival- Honorable Mention/Business Category 2011

Seeing Red Cars Conversation Starters:  Amazon Instant Videos http://amzn.to/eUdiGA

FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx

Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq

Seeing Red Cars FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

Seeing Red Cars Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SeeingRedCars

LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal have identified Seeing Red Cars – Driving your Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future as a top five leadership book for 2011!    Forbes magazine identified it as a “must read,” for leaders who want what it takes to accomplish positive change.

Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations 

Film: www.shiftingyears.com

FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generation...

Radio Host:FutureWork http://www.blogtalkradio.com/laura-goodrich

TV Host and Producer: Life to the Max 

http://www.lifetothemax.tv/about.html

Laura Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LauraGoodrichOn Impact

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauragoodrich 

Blog: http://lgoodrich.posterous.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragoodrich

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LauraGoodrich

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35914444@N07/

 

 

RT @fastfuture - Rohit Talwar - A Flood of Employment Opportunities on The Horizon

If you been around me much you know I am very interested in the challenges and opportunities facing the generations in the marketplace today. 

Pay very close attention to the "points of interest" in the article and consider the professional opportunities that will be revealed in the very near future!  The #millennials face a very high unemployment rate, so a flood of employment opportunities is exactly what they need!  

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Creativity and Successful Leaders

Here is my favorite blog  of the week.  It represents an example of unconscious focus that is producing unintentional results! Worse yet, the creativity muscle is not being developed as the marketplace so desperately needs.  

RT@Ken Cooper (@kencooperusa)

Creativity is one of the most important attributes needed for successful leaders now and into the future, but guess what, creative leaders are being overlooked.  Learn why in this fascinating blog by  -

Heidi Grant Halvorson

 Forbes http://t.co/jayNM3S

This blog demonstrates how critical it is to call out the attributes needed in successful leaders and organizations going forward.  I’ll talk about each of the critical attributes individually later, but let's start with my list.

The attributes of successful individuals, leaders and organizations now and into the future. 

Positive Outcome Focused

Agile

Flexible

Creative

Innovative

Persistent

Connected

Self Driven

Learning Oriented

Collaborative

Relationship Oriented

 

If leaders and organizations do not call these attributes out and intentionally build and further develop them with their organizations, there will be  trouble on the horizon.  Those that do, will be well equipped to drive the course and steer toward opportunity and away from threats. Leave it to chance and prepare to pay a very high price!

 

Laura Goodrich 

 

Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker

TV l Radio l Program Host

 

Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work and Life! 

 

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com

Website: www.onimpactproductions.com

Business: 952-856-6071

Mobile: 952-240-1516

SKYPE: laura.goodrich 

OOVOO: Laura Goodrich

About Laura: http://about.me/laurajgoodrich

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Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars 

Film and Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com

Book Video: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3PE5HUKRUKIKZ/ref=ent_fb_link

San Francisco Book Festival- Honorable Mention/Business Category 2011

Seeing Red Cars Conversation Starters:  Amazon Instant Videos http://amzn.to/eUdiGA

FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx

Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq

Seeing Red Cars FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

Seeing Red Cars Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SeeingRedCars

LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal have identified Seeing Red Cars – Driving your Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future as a top five leadership book for 2011!    Forbes magazine identified it as a “must read,” for leaders who want what it takes to accomplish positive change.

Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations 

Film: www.shiftingyears.com

FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generation...

Radio Host:FutureWork http://www.blogtalkradio.com/laura-goodrich

TV Host and Producer: Life to the Max 

http://www.lifetothemax.tv/about.html

Laura Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LauraGoodrichOn Impact

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauragoodrich 

Blog: http://lgoodrich.posterous.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragoodrich

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LauraGoodrich

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35914444@N07/

 

 



Be keenly aware of marketplace dynamics and trends

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Laura Goodrich 

 

Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker

TV l Radio l Program Host

 

Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work and Life! 

 

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com

Website: www.onimpactproductions.com

Business: 952-856-6071

Mobile: 952-240-1516

SKYPE: laura.goodrich 

OOVOO: Laura Goodrich

About Laura: http://about.me/laurajgoodrich

Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars 

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Film and Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com

Book Video: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3PE5HUKRUKIKZ/ref=ent_fb_link

San Francisco Book Festival- Honorable Mention/Business Category 2011

Seeing Red Cars Conversation Starters:  Amazon Instant Videos http://amzn.to/eUdiGA

FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx

Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq

Seeing Red Cars FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

Seeing Red Cars Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SeeingRedCars

LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal have identified Seeing Red Cars – Driving your Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future as a top five leadership book for 2011!    Forbes magazine identified it as a “must read,” for leaders who want what it takes to accomplish positive change.

 

Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations 

Film: www.shiftingyears.com

FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generation...

 

Radio Host:FutureWork http://www.blogtalkradio.com/laura-goodrich

TV Host and Producer: Life to the Max 

http://www.lifetothemax.tv/about.html

 

Laura Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LauraGoodrichOn Impact

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauragoodrich 

Blog: http://lgoodrich.posterous.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragoodrich

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LauraGoodrich

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35914444@N07/

 

Leverage the power of generations; it’s a matter of choice

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Four generations are together in the workplace for the first time in history.  It is how we choose to work together that will determine our success. All age groups must work diligently at being receptive and involved in the process.

 

1925 - 1945 

 

Silent Generation

 

1946 - 1964 

 

Baby Boom

 

1965 - 1979

 

Generation X

 

1980 – 2000

 

Net Gen, Generation Y, or Millennials

 

Demographic Truths

In 2008 I read a white paper by international consulting firm Deloitte entitled, “It’s 2008. Where Are Your Employees?” It discussed the impending talent crisis. I was fascinated with the undeniable demographic truths on the horizon:

 

·       Baby Boomers exiting the workplace in high numbers

 

·       The tremendously large size of the Millennial Generation

 

·       The diminutive size of Generation X  and its inability to backfill the spaces left by the departing generation

 

Simultaneously, I was being bombarded with requests for coaching and consulting regarding the challenges the established generation was experiencing in leading the Millennial Generation.

Economic Recession

 

Suddenly, and for the next several years, the economic recession cast aside the focus on these truths as organizations struggled to survive. But of course, these demographic trends did not pause and wait for the recession to pass! In the midst of one of the worst economic downturns, many Baby Boomers opted to stay put rather than retire. This only served to put a band-aid on the talent crisis predictions, and for the time being, nothing happened.

The reality is, the talent crisis will once again amp up, the Baby Boomers will regain their confidence and proceed to retire (in droves), and Generation X will not be able to backfill the openings left by the Boomers. This situation will be further complicated by the fact that there has been minimal sharing of knowledge and the Baby Boomers are leaving with critical insight that Generation X needs to carry on.

 

Leverage the Power of Generations

I believe the best solutions come when all the generations are at the table, collaborating, and coming up with solutions and innovations that leverage the power of the generations.

Unfortunately, this is rare. What is happening in the marketplace is collective eye-rolling—established generations roll their eyes at younger generations, and vice versa. There is fatigue and frustration on both sides of the equation.

I often tell people that a challenge and an opportunity usually dwell within close proximity of each another. That is definitely the case in this situation.  The result?  Solutions are created without collaboration.  Here is an example 

Not long ago I received a call from a client asking me to review their new website.  I asked, “Who is your target audience?”  They said males and females ages 18 to 40.

The moment I landed on the website it was obvious it had been built by a group of over-age-40 males. Front and center was a talking head with a crisp shirt and conservative suit yammering gobbledygook. He was preaching corporate-speak on steroids! Fascinating, isn’t it? This is akin to a roundtable discussion on how to target the female purchasing audience without one woman at the table!

The younger generations are more interested in human beings with hearts, personalities, and a bit of humility.  They are not interested in someone who is preaching from a lofty position with eyes cast downward.

If the company had invited the up-and-coming generations to the table, they would have quickly realized what younger professionals like and don’t like.  They would have created a website that would appeal to the target audience with the influence that sage wisdom and decades of experience bring.

This is one of countless examples where collaboration—leveraging the power of generations—would have yielded a superior outcome and a more innovative solution.

I always say that order matters.  We all have something to learn, and we all have something to teach—in that order. If we come from a place of curiosity, where each party says to the other “I want to learn about and understand you,” we would quickly realize that we have more commonalities than differences .  Once common ground is established, we can see our differences as strengths and begin to realize the infinite opportunities that exist with four generations in the workplace.

Multiple generations working together can be leveraged as a source of great potential rather than a cause for tension. I believe that we are in a unique place where sage wisdom blended with new, fresh ideas can create the solutions the marketplace and workplace desperately need.

It is how we choose to work together that determines our success. By finding common ground, respecting differences, and letting go of assumptions, great things can happen!

 

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Laura Goodrich

 

Innovator l Video Producer l Author l Speaker

 

TV l Radio l Program Host

 

Internationally Recognized Expert in Change and the Future of Work and Life

 

Email: laura@onimpactproductions.com

 

Website: www.onimpactproductions.com

 

Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations

 

Film: www.shiftingyears.com

 

FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generation...>

 

Laura Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LauraGoodrichOn Impact

 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauragoodrich

 

Blog: http://lgoodrich.posterous.com/

 

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragoodrich

 

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LauraGoodrich

 

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35914444@N07/

 

 

Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars Film and Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com

Book Video: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m3PE5HUKRUKIKZ/ref=ent_fb_link

Seeing Red Cars Conversation Starters:  Amazon Instant Videos http://amzn.to/eUdiGA

FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx

Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq

Seeing Red Cars FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars

Seeing Red Cars Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SeeingRedCars

LiveMint and the Wall Street Journal have identified Seeing Red Cars – Driving your Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future as a top five 

 

Wayne Hurlbert Interviews Laura Goodrich

Acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in change and the future of work and life, co-owner of On Impact, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures,Laura Goodrich, describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. Laura shares how this is seeing and getting more of what you focus on in business and in life. Unfortunately, she points out that people spend too much time and energy focusing on what they don't want instead. Laura offers ideas and techniques to help you stop fixating on negative thoughts, and rewiring your brain to focus on positive results. Laura demonstrates how this concept can transform a company culture where employees ply to their passions and strengths, focus on what they want, and achieve breakthrough results and innovations.

Listen to the Interview here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/waynehurlbert/2011/07/01/laura-goodrich-seeing-r...



Acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, co-owner of On Impact Productions, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures,Laura Goodrich, describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. You will learn:

* Why we tend to see things that we focus on

* Why people focus on what they don't want instead of what they do want

* How to transform your focus to what you do want

* How to change workplace culture to focus on what people do want

Laura Goodrich (photo left) is like Suze Orman meets Katie Couric with a splash of Dear Abby and a Meg Ryan smile. Whip-smart and vibrant, but also down-to-earth and approachable, Laura is an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships. 

Energetic and enthusiastic, she has over twenty five years professional experience; sixteen of which she has spent as a speaker, organizational trainer, coach, and consultant. Her business stories and experience from all over the globe have earned her the reputation as someone who can create positive circumstances and relationships in even the most challenging workplace dynamics.


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Laura Goodrich´s”Seeing Red Cars Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future ” by Wayne Hurlbert

 

“You could be getting more of what you want – more new ideas, more teamwork in your department, and a more positive attitude in the company”, writes internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, Laura Goodrich, in her inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future. The author describes how we get more of what we focus on, and shares the tools for enhancing and sharpening the focus on what we really want.

 

Laura Goodrich points to the very familiar phenomenon of the purchaser of a red car suddenly seeing red cars everywhere. The author recognizes this sudden appearance of red cars as simply a fresh focus on red cars on the road. In fact, the red cars were there all along, but without the focus on them, they went unnoticed prior to the red car purchase. With this change in concentration, writes Laura Goodrich, a dramatic and very noticeable change in outcomes is possible. Unfortunately, as the author describes, people will often concentrate their focus on what they don’t want. The result is that those people also receive the bad things on which they sharpened their gaze. Laura Goodrich shares how the world doesn’t have to be that way, and guides the reader to focus on the desirable outcome, and how this reversal of direction makes all the difference in the world.

Laura Goodrich (photo left) understands that not only can individuals change their outlook, but that entire corporate cultures can be transformed as well. Instead of concentrating on weaknesses, the author demonstrates how entire organization can enhance strengths, increase passion, and develop a more engaged and productive workplace. Combining the change in thinking with the tools necessary to make the transition from a negative focused culture, to that of one where the positive outcome is sought, the author provides a system that provides real bottom line results. While many companies expend their energy on what they believe is preventing problems, the more effective organization creates an atmosphere where overall success is the goal. With this profound difference in organizational culture and behavior, any company can get what it really wants.

For me, the power of the book is how Laura Goodrich utilizes the red car phenomenon effectively to describe how people see and receive what they focus on in life. The author combines effectively the theory of why concentration on anything either good or bad, produces that result, with practical steps on how to change that concentration problem. Laura Goodrich bolsters her theoretical framework with the latest research in how the brain processes information, and how it focuses upon either good or undesirable results. The author shares the tools, including an online toolkit, to effectively rewire the brains of individuals or of entire organizations to effect positive and lasting change.

Along with the theory and practical exercises, Laura Goodrich also shares real world stories of companies who have made the leap to a focus on positive goals. The results of these corporate cultural changes are both dramatic and motivational for anyone seeking to improve morale within the company culture. Engaged and positive employees are also more productive and increase the organization’s revenue and profitability. Happy workers, concentrating on seeing the shiniest red cars in life, are more likely to be creative as well. When innovative thinking is sought, bold new ideas and initiatives seem to arrive out of nowhere. Just like the red cars, those fresh ideas were there all along.

I highly recommend the innovative and results oriented book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future by Laura Goodrich, to anyone looking for commitment, both individually and on an organization wide basis, to focusing on positive events. Looking for what you really want will surprise and delight the seeker of good things in business and in life.

Read the negative pattern breaking book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future by Laura Goodrich, and discover how to make positive change with both realistic and effective techniques for personal and organizational transformation. You will be seeing red cars everywhere in the office and on the road of life.

Sreing Red Cars
Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future
By: Laura Goodrich
Published: February 7, 2011
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 9781605097275
ISBN-13: 978-1605097275
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers


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Let's talk with acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, co-owner of On Impact Productions, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures, Laura Goodrich, as she describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. Laura shares how this is seeing and getting more of what you focus on in business and in life. Unfortunately, she points out that people spend too much time and energy focusing on what they don't want instead. Laura offers ideas and techniques to help you stop fixating on negative thoughts, and rewiring your brain to focus on positive results. Laura demonstrates how this concept can transform a company culture where employees ply to their passions and strengths, focus on what they want, and achieve breakthrough results and innovations on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Laura is an innovator l video Producer l author l host and speaker specializing in change and the future of work and life! She is passionate about helping people, teams and organizations navigate these wild roads of change! Her book and film Seeing Red Cars – Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future – are described as transformational, relevant and timely. Recently named honorable mention in the business category at the San Francisco book festival. It’s ranked #2 on Amazon in Business/Work Life Balance. Her short video “Positive Future” received 1st place in Training Magazine’s video competition in 2011 http://ow.ly/5zaxa Her film Shifting Years – received 2nd place in Training Magazine’s video competition in 2011 Is change in your future? Her new Embracing Change video is set to release soon! Get them talking.

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