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No more lost cause little kids in big bodies in the workplace!  Did you know that you just need … 9 Weeks to achieve a ‘Make A Difference’ Year!   Seem too good to be true?

Why nine weeks?

Back at the beginning of my professional career, I started out as a teacher. I felt the first nine weeks of school set the stage for the entire year. I knew—down to my toes—that if my students’ social and emotional needs were met, they would be highly functional for the rest of the school year. Life in my classroom would be very, very good.

Later on in my career, when it came to working with adults, either in the corporate or personal settings, I told them to be laser-focused on things I wanted them to accomplish, with an end-goal of just nine weeks. It just takes nine! Any nine weeks will do. You begin when you begin.

Through teaching children, educators, and parents how to build a compassionate community, we dramatically raised emotional intelligence—EQ—and therefore performance. Fifteen years later, when I started developing professional training for major corporations, I discovered that nine weeks of working with teams developed the same kind of transformational, synergy that sustained itself.

How did I do this?

My goal was simple. In working with children, I placed the children’s social and emotional needs above my concern about making it through “X number of pages” per week.  When it came to the business model, I found the same methodology worked with adults as well.

I hope you’ll take some ideas from today’s blog and implement them right away. Don’t over think this!

Reaching out …

FIRST 9 Weeks: Back from Summer Vacation
Excerpt from 9-Week Team Synergy Package   

First Things First

In the corporate environment, you begin when you begin. Set a date and that’s when your nine weeks begin. Beginning in Week 1, every – and I do mean “every”—single time a social or emotional situation plays out, you will be learning how to have an open discussion—no matter how long it takes. Take it exactly as it comes. Don’t avoid, dismiss or ignore what’s in front of you to take care of, right here, right now. The payoff in nine weeks will be huge.

Start with The Fundamentals

With the pressure for team members to be productive at very high levels, you simply must deal with the emotional and social issues first. Everything after that … becomes the foundation for everything you could ever want the organizational synergy to be.

And now, I’m giving you my 9-Week ‘Make A Difference’ Team Synergy Training Manual so you can Pass-It-On.

Take it exactly as it comes. Don’t avoid, dismiss or ignore what’s in front of you to take care of right there, right then. The payoff in nine weeks will be huge.

With the pressure to be productive in today’s fast-paced, high-tech, bright-shiny-object world, you simply must help people to focus by dealing with the workplace emotional and social issues first. Everything after that becomes the foundation for everything you could ever want the work environment experience to be.

Read today’s blog to see how you can remedy lackadaisical effort at work!

Heart Publishing, the Pacific Northwest

DIY   EVENTS    FEEL BETTER    INSPIRATION    WATCH & LISTEN    ABOUT

The fact is, with a little effort on our parts we really can be positively impacting the disconcerting statistics leading into today’s blog.

Last week I sent you a profoundly transformational movie about the Power of Acknowledgment to not only transform lives, but possibly to save lives.

September is quickly approaching and as you may well remember it is recognized as Suicide Prevention Month to increase awareness of the people in our lives who may be in need of our loving attention and acknowledgment more than what we’ve realized.

This short movie has been viewed millions of times. I have watched this movie several times each month, and every time I do, I still get hit in the gut with a sense of urgency to reach more and more people.

If you have already seen it, I invite you to watch it again and then reach out to whoever comes to mind who could use a word of encouragement from you. If you missed it recently, “take 5” to watch now …

AcknowledgmentMovie.com

We welcome you to use this movie and Acknowledgment Ceremony in whatever ways will be of greatest service to your community. It is our hope that this movie positively impact as many lives as possible.

I am writing today to ask that you join me in making a highly personal commitment to Making a Positive Difference now; to make it a point to reach out each and every day to acknowledge a minimum of 3 people, so neither you or I will ever have to feel the pain of being “too late” because we just never know when someone needs what we could offer.

Reaching out …

Statistics You Can Impact 
Excerpt from Make A Difference Power of Acknowledgment UTrain Curriculum

· Suicide claims approximately 1 million lives worldwide each year, a rate of one suicide every 40 seconds.

· Suicide and suicidal behavior affects individuals of all ages, genders, races and religions across the planet.  According to nmha.org/go/suicide

· Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 1% of all deaths.

· More years of life are lost to suicide than to any other single cause except heart disease and cancer.

· 30,000 Americans die by suicide each year; an additional 500,000 Americans attempt suicide annually.

· 30% to 40% of persons who complete suicide have made a previous attempt.

· The risk of completed suicide is more than 100 times greater than average in the first year after an attempt – 80 times greater for women, 200 times greater for men, 200 times greater for people over 45, and 300 times greater for white men over 65.

· Suicide rates are highest in old age: 20% of the population and 40% of suicide victims are over 60. After age 75, the rate is three times higher than average, and among white men over 80, it is six times higher than average.

· Substance abuse is another great instigator of suicide; it may be involved in half of all cases. About 20% of suicides involve people with alcohol problems, and the lifetime rate of suicide among people with alcohol-use problems is more than three times the average.

It is also important to know that:

No single therapeutic approach is suitable for all people considering suicide or suicidal tendencies. The most common ways to treat underlying illnesses associated with suicide are with medication, talk therapy or a combination of the two.

PREVENTION is about bringing transformational programs into our schools, places of work and churches that effectively build skills and much needed understanding to create a sense of community and belonging. KNOWING that we are here to Make A Difference is essential!

HEARTFELT ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS THE KEY!

In celebration of this story and the life it saved and the lives it has transformed over the past 30 years, I wanted to take a moment out of my day to say …

THANK YOU FOR THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE!

For a way you can help read my latest blog!

Heart Publishing, the Pacific Northwest

I’m writing you today to share a true story about how a very simple and heartfelt Acknowledgment Ceremony caused the actions of one teacher to dramatically altered the life a businessman and his 14-year old son.

This short movie has been viewed millions times. I have watched this movie well over 50 times and every time I do, I still get hit in the gut with sense of urgency when I see the gun in the father’s hands, to reach more and more people. If you have already seen it, I invite you to watch it again and then reach out to whoever comes to mind who could use a word of encouragement from you.

We welcome you to use this movie and Acknowledgment Ceremony in whatever ways will be of greatest service to your community. It is our hope that this movie positively impact as many lives as possible – please turn on your speakers and “take 5″ to watch:

Click here to watch.

So what do you do with this?

It is important to know that: No single therapeutic approach is suitable for all people considering suicide or suicidal tendencies. The most common ways to treat underlying illnesses associated with suicide are with medication, talk therapy or a combination of the two.

PREVENTION is about bringing transformational programs into our schools, places of work and churches that effectively build skills and much needed understanding to create a sense of community and belonging. KNOWING that we are here to Make A Difference is essential!

As you may remember, September is National Suicide Prevention Month so plan ahead now.  Be an Agent for Change with this field-tested, step-by-step program that’s already been designed to be flexible to your needs. 

Thank you for the difference you are making.  Reaching out …

MakeADifference.com/Acknowledgment

Heart Publishing, the Pacific Northwest