Genuine Contact Way

Friday Reflection

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself

-Leo Tolstoy

 

Reflection Question:

Thinking of the quote above and the image above, what are your reflections about your personal journey that ...

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Do meetings invite you to really participate?

 

Think of the last time that you were in a meeting.   It might have been a board meeting, a management meeting, or a sales meeting; whatever kind of meeting it was, I invite you to reflect on that meeting.   What were the conditions of the meeting?  What was the set up?  If you contributed, do you think that you were heard?  ...

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Power and Love

In living significant lives, we figure out how to claim leadership over our own lives. For myriad reasons, people have difficulty in doing this and generally fall into allowing their lives to be led by external influences. Sometimes this shows up as feeling helpless in relation to all that is going on in the world. Sometimes ...

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Friday Reflection

Behind every stratum and facet of the infrastructure, however vast, complex, and convoluted it may appear, are people.

Stephen Russel

 

Reflection Question:

Based on the quote above, and the image above, ...

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Choosing Health and Balance - Individually and Organizationally


People in our organizations are suffering from clinical depression and other stress-related illnesses in unprecedented numbers.Statistics say that 33% of the North American workforce is clinically depressed and that 1 in 2 people will develop cancer. Diabetes, immune deficiency illnesses, ...

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Transformation and Engagement


Organizational transformation always needs to start with the formal leader(s). Is it important to have the engagement from others in an organization? Ideally, time and activities would allow the opportunity to establish engagement for organizational transformation throughout an organization. This does not require 100% engagement. According to Critical Mass Theory, if even ...

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Friday Reflection

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind’s most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis. ~ Sir Jonathon Porritt


Reflection Question:

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Confusion

Participants in our workshops, often in the day’s end reflection circle, include comments about being in ‘confusion’. It is common to have a comment on the following day of ‘I am in a higher level of confusion and it is okay’.   The other participants, some nodding their heads in agreement, often giggle. ...

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Authenticity? Internal and External Congruency

One of the gifts of the Genuine Contact™ Way is that following its teachings and the Genuine Contact™ program, individuals and leaders are assisted to have congruency between what they experience internally and what they present externally. I am aware that there is a push for authenticity and transparency ...

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Q & A

Question: Recent newspaper headlines in Raleigh, North Carolina reported about the failure of the President’s program of ‘No Child Left Behind’, with a large percentage of the children performing below the new standards for reading, writing, and arithmetic. In fact, entire schools are now ‘on probation’ in relation to their ability to perform in relation to standardized test scores. All schools are mandated to use new best practices to ensure that the scores go up. Yet, using the ... << MORE >>

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