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Skillful Listening Essentials. The "Skillful Listening Essentials" PDF Tip Kit offers information, reflections, food-for-thought, and suggestions for practice that help increase one's ability to listen skillfully. Our Ivy Sea listening-skillbuilder PDF guide includes a review and tips for smoother interactions, listening deeply, fostering greater receptivity required for effective listening, inquiring more skillfully, being more conscious, and more. (39 pages, copyright protected, Ivy Sea, Inc.) Or you might need: • Workplace Communication Essentials |
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| The following web sites feature some nice resources and ideas for valuing people, and promoting right relationship and good business:
• Alfie Kohn's articles on motivation & more • Calliope-Learnings from change agents in family-oriented social services • Center for Visionary Leadership • ICP — Postive Language and Naysayers • International Listening Association • People-Centered Development Forum • The Campaign Against Workplace Bullying • The Pecking Order Report on Hierarchy • YES! A Journal of Positive Futures Please surf and apply your findings mindfully. |
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| Much rhetoric continues to exist in leadership and management circles about the importance of people to the organization's success. This is, as they say, a "no brainer." Millions of dollars are allocated to recruiting, training and keeping talented employees, and millions more on public-relations and advertising campaigns aimed as much to prospective and current employees as to investors and the general public.
Why, then, do many leaders and their management gurus casually use such degrading and deflating language as "human capital" and "retooling" employees (yes, these are both from real-world examples)? Why has the predominant trend of the past two decades been the elimination of people and the decimation of organizational culture for the sole purpose of building wealth for a slim minority of investors (despite negative effects on longer term productivity)? We at Ivy Sea have created this portal as a place to house and discuss alternatives to this way of doing business; to share ideas about how to create a financially healthy organization that truly values the people it employs and serves — an approach that promotes right relationship as well as financial stability. Indeed, we believe that right-relationship supports financial stability. We welcome your ideas, and offer a few of our own. |
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| While the purpose of this public-service website is to promote right relationship and good business, the following offers a selection of resources to get you started:
Ivy Sea Online Public Library — Organizational Communication Portal — Ethics and Communication Portal — Mastering the "little ways" of great leadership — Why can't you skimp on good communication? — Think good communication is a "no-brainer"? — Do you over-step boundaries with your clients or employer? — What's your personal social responsibility? Ivy Sea Online VIP Membership Content Center — VIP Membership Content Center article and PDF index — Workplace communication essentials — What communication vehicles work best, and when? — Tenets in common: Virtue-mastery in the workplace — When the quality of your questions affects relationships — Do you drive employees nuts? — Mindful relationship-building |
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Make your quantum-leap with Ivy Sea's Inspired-Leadership and Conscious-Enterprise resources and consultations: We can help you: (1) discover how to define your inspired-leadership and conscious-enterprise principles, (2) clarify and make progress towards your vision, (3) make the most of your individual and organizational strengths, (4) identify ways to "get there from here," (5) rise to greater levels of mastery, success and meaningfulness as an individual, group or organization; and/or (6) benefit from having a "thought-and-idea partner" with whom to evaluate options and challenges, and from whom you can gain ideas, a fresh perspective, and inspiration. We welcome your inquiry. |
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VIP Member Center: Put Ivy Sea skill-building materials to work in your training, skill-development, client service, marketing and communication programs: Ivy Sea VIP Members get access to a special "VIP-only" collection of html and PDF articles, tip sheets, vision-catalysts, and dialogue-starters. Gold and Platinum-level VIPs also get permission to reprint and distribute from Ivy Sea's online library of copyright-protected skill-building materials for training, development, intranet, and communication programs, with easy online access. Becoming a VIP is as easy as can be! Find out more about our VIP Membership. |
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