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Teen Leadership  Looking for a unique summer program for your teen? How about a Teen Leadership Camp? Our all-new Young Leaders In Action program will take place right here at The Country Place Retreat and Conference Center from July 17-23. It's a week-long program designed to develop leadership skills in students entering grades 9 through 12 who want to lead authentically, collaboratively and creatively. Using fun and experiential exercises including the low ropes course, white water rafting, and stress reduction techniques like yoga, meditation and journaling, future leaders will build self confidence and discover what it takes to lead effectively in an ever changing world. Read more... |
 | The Power of a Word It all started with the dreadful threat of a lawsuit. Sara was a paralegal in a large multinational organization. While this situation took place in England, it could have been anywhere. Sara had filed a lawsuit against the organization. She claimed it was a hostile work environment. While still permitted to work, she was waiting to get a good financial settlement because of the extreme stress she claimed she was under at work. The new boss, David, was aware of how patterns play out in the workplace. He was nervous in his first meeting with Sara knowing any wrong statement could feed the lawsuit. At first, Sara didn’t want to meet without her union representative. David convinced her, however, to meet with him privately and to leave at any moment she felt uncomfortable. Read more... |
| “Patterns In Play” is a new column devoted to bringing you a case study of a specific pattern in play at work. We invite you to visit our Chat Room at www.ceoptions.com to share your comments and your own personal challenges. Patterns are “repetitive reactions that can keep us stuck in the world of ‘always’ and ‘never’ and influenced by family, culture and crisis. Leaders who can learn to read and redesign patterns can help create a work environment that limits the game called office politics. |
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Legacies Lead the Way Home Mary Wilson, CEO Consulting Faculty Pattern Aware Leadership is not just about what I—or any of us—need to stop doing, but about what we need to start doing. Ancestral stories not only help us identify the long-held patterns we want to break, but the legacies from our family history that we want to keep and treasure. Those legacies are worth far more than the family silver. Here is my story of what was transformed. Read more... |
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 Congratulations TLC 16! Vickie Monteleone, Don Paul LeBlanc, Lynn Miller, Ruth Littlejohn, Mary Wilson, Sylvia LaFair, Elizabeth Gearhart, John Meade, Ben Baker |
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 New Mexico Enchantment An Out-of-the-Ordinary Experience Explore Native American life and leadership through storytelling, art and drumming in a destination that inspires it all—Santa Fe and Chaco Canyon. CEO’s Leadership-In-Action journey to the enchanting Southwest from July 22-29, 2005 offers many possibilities for new ways of thinking and new ways of leading. Throughout all this exploration of new outer terrain is woven the development of new inner awareness. For a complete itinerary or to register for the trip, contact Carol Lindner at carol@ceoptions.com. Here is just a glimpse of what’s in store on your “eduventure” of a lifetime: Read more... |
 | Coaching Through Resistance Q: | I am coaching Jennifer, a team member who is having a great deal of difficulty changing her behavior. As the eldest of three sisters, she is used to being in charge and bossing others around. She sometimes doesn’t listen to others’ ideas and considers their input invalid. She is aware of her non-serving pattern and is trying to work on it. In the heat of the moment, however, she falls back into her old ways. What can I do to help her let go of the old? | A: | We all revert to old patterns in the “heat of the moment.” This is where having a trusted colleague can make a great difference. You can do two things that will help her. First, SLOW DOWN. Your slower physical movements and speech rhythm can have a calming effect on Jennifer and may even benefit the entire team. Meeting anger with anger escalates; meeting upset with calmness diminishes the intensity of the situation. Read more... |
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|  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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