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Influencing a community to help the homeless

October 25, 2010 · by Bob Faw

Have you ever wondered how to ignite passion for your goals with large groups? How to involve people to gain helpful input and buy-in? How to inspire people to follow-through with meaningful contributions?

Would you like to observe, or better yet participate, in a unique, free community summit?

Join me in a high-energy, fun, and emotionally meaningful event at the Harbor Homes Nashua Care Center, November 8, 2010 (click here for event information)

This special collaborative summit is an important part of the strategic planning process for the Care Center, a phenomenal nonprofit that you can think of as the “Harvard of the Homeless.” This center offers a “hand-up” to women who are committed to transforming their lives in order to achieve a stable home for themselves and their children.  Graduates come from hard-knock situations and go through powerful programs to gain the skills, emotional stability and education to become strong, healthy, contributing citizens.

If you’re like me and you find REAL change an inspiring and fulfilling experience in your life, please come with an open mind and heart. You’ll hear a few stories from graduates of this challenging program, and from others who have been fulfilled by contributing to its success.

Then-and this truly is the fun part-you’ll join in a brainstorming session to uncover fresh ideas to help the Care Center be even more transformative going forward. You’ll see the power of Appreciative Inquiry and other positive-change tools in action. And you know me, it will be highly engaging, with lots of laughs, interaction, and insight.

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Attitude is Altitude – focus on what you HAVE

August 3, 2010 · by Bob Faw

Nick Vujicic. This man is INCREDIBLE!

He is a living embodiment that attitude is critical. If he is so positive and inspirational, imagine what can you do when you focus on living your dreams.  attitudeisaltitude.com

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The Power of Inspirational Culture

July 6, 2010 · by Bob Faw

Inspire the performance you need

As Daniel Pink describes in “Drive” we generally perform at our best when we feel competent, make a difference in the world, and when we learn. These are not things that coercion or any type of fear encourages.

An inspirational culture (whether it be work, home life, or a community organization) drives us to perform at our best.

What could you do if you had a more inspirational culture?

You could inspire…
nimble agility

excellent performance

loyalty-building customer service

employees who embrace & drive change

an improvisational culture that adapts constantly

We’ll talk more over the coming weeks about what it takes to create and nurture a culture that inspires people to greatness. It’s both incredibly simple and also sophisticated. There are many wonderful examples of inspirational cultures in the world. Please sign in and share your examples you know of.

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Improvisational Organizations – fun and profitable

May 21, 2010 · by Bob Faw

Who's company is it anyway?

Create an improvisational culture in your company

— fast, flexible, empowered and positive.

Imagine your people guided more by principles and less by rules.

Picture them quickly adapting with resilience to customer needs, market changes and sales surprises.

Get everyone engaged in sustainable profitability with clear metrics, a motivating environment and room to experiment!

In an improvisational culture a leader’s primary focus is keeping up with the needs of the groups she supports (rather than manages). Useful information flows throughout the company to where it’s needed. People keep each other on track because they’re passionate about the goals and don’t want any slackers holding them back. Fun is as a staple of an energized environment.

What companies do you see as being improvisational? (no wrong answers here)

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Knowing your purpose and principles protects against manipulation

May 19, 2010 · by Bob Faw
Be clear about your purpose.
  • in life.
  • in your job.
  • in your family.
Why do you do it? How do you know you’re successful? How do you feel when you’re successful?
What are your core principles?
What 3-5 qualities are so important to you that you will adhere to them even if it loses you money (in the short term)?  E.g., integrity, achievement, caring, teamwork, protecting others (or the environment), seeking joy, etc.
When you are CLEAR about your purpose and your core principles you can stay on track when others try to manipulate you.
Seth Godin has a great blog posting “Who is easily manipulated?” that helps you know what not to do.
What is your purpose  — in one word or one sentence? Share with us, or at least remind yourself regularly.

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The power of culture to drive business success

May 18, 2010 · by Bob Faw

This article share’s DaVita’s very inspiring case study. It’s a great story of how focusing on culture makes everyone more successful. It’s also a great example of positive influence in action.

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Best DNA: Be more of the best of who you are

May 6, 2010 · by Bob Faw

We can’t actually be anything we want. I’ll never be an astronaut because I get dizzy and claustrophobic. Instead I’ll put my energy into being the best of who I am. It feels completely natural and exciting for me to stand in front crowds of people helping them learn, making them laugh, helping them connecting to each other in positive ways. I love who I am in that moment — I love being me. So I “amp up” these qualities of mine and be the best of who I am whenever I can. It makes life so much richer.

Each of us have native strengths and passions that when we use them fully make us feel wonderfully alive. When we find the strengths and passions that also help us make a living we are on a path of fulfillment, achievement and increasing power.

1)  What are your strengths and passions?

2)  What do you do that makes you feel fully alive?

3)  How can you “amp up” those strengths in your life to be even more fulfilled, successful and vibrant?

4) What are people willing to reward you for doing?

Find out what lies at the intersection of all three of these areas. That’s your Best DNA for work, or for volunteer work, or whatever area you want the rewards in.

How would you answer these questions for your employees … spouse … children?

If you want help answering the strengths questions, the book “Go Put Your Strengths to Work” and other works by Marcus Buckingham can be very helpful. (note: The author has absolutely no connection to Buckingham, only respect for his work.)

Later in 2012 Matchbox Group (matchboxgroup.com) will be putting out a self-assessment process for discovering your own Best DNA, along with tips on what to do to enhance that and make your life more successful and fulfilling.

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Daniel Pink asks, “Is purpose really an effective motivator?”

May 1, 2010 · by Bob Faw

This blog post of Dan’s shows great research to answer this question.

This is why we say, “Influence your world”.

Make your world better and it will also make you more productive.

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Go on improvement road trips!

April 26, 2010 · by Bob Faw

Improving yourself, relationships, or your organization is like a journey. We’ve all heard this many times I’m sure.

What if we look at improvement as a ROAD TRIP?

Fun…

Adventurous…

Exploratory…

Half planned and half improvised…

Where the journey is as exciting as the destination…

I’ve gone on many road trips

  • developing myself
  • growing my career
  • helping organizations improve their cultures
  • coaching individuals and teams to success

The best road trips are the ones where I knew it was an adventure while I was on it.

This recession is a detour, an unsought for part of all of our road trips. How can we adventure as much of it as possible?

Make your life an adventure. Go on improvement road trips.

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