The "Conversation"

Throughout the day, from the moment you wake up to the time you fall asleep, something remarkable takes place. When you’re showering, getting dressed, eating breakfast, driving to work, sitting at your desk, participating in a meeting, eating lunch, driving home, cooking dinner, preparing for bed – in other words, all the time – there’s a conversation going on. You know the one. It’s part of the internal dialog that just asked you, “What conversation is he talking about?” It’s the conversation you wake up with in the morning, that’s with you all day, and sometimes keeps you up at night.

How do you relate to that conversation? What do you call it? Typical answers I get from audiences are: thinking, having thoughts, self-talk, my mother, the committee, radio Hanoi, the gremlin, and others. What you label the conversation doesn’t matter. What matters is that you notice the conversation and realize it’s there all the time. And while sometimes you are in control of the conversation, more often you are not.

For example, aren’t there times when you are driving in your car, sitting at your desk, flying across country, etc., and you find yourself in the middle of a conversation and you have no idea why? And aren’t there times when something is “on your mind” and you wish whatever it is would just go away and leave you alone but it won’t?

Unfortunately, most people don’t pay much, if any, attention to that conversation. “Why should we?” they ask. “It’s just self-talk or thinking.” No…it’s much more than that.

Creating Extraordinary Organizations

More than 50% of Americans hate their jobs!

This is costing your organization a FORTUNE!

There is a solution.

After 17 years of working in and analyzing organizations of every type and size, I have noticed a common theme among the successful ones; namely, they consist of a group of enthusiastic, confident, positive people who work together on behalf of a future they have all committed themselves to.

Here lies the problem. In most organizations, the above observation of what a “successful organization” is, simply does not exist - which is the main reason why so many people hate their jobs!

So, why haven’t we been able to solve this dilemma? Certainly not because people enjoy resignation, negativity, and fear? Do people want to be part of a team? Of course! Would they like to feel appreciated and respected? Most assuredly!

But the reality is that we live in a culture that is not set up to have truly successful organizations. Companies are so concerned with their bottom lines, they neglect to nurture the people and relationships that create those lines. Which is why, in spite of hundreds of books on organizational effectiveness, most people still struggle to make work work.

Only six percent of Americans say that they love their jobs. More than $300 billion, or $7500 per employee, is spent annually in the United States on stress-related compensation claims. Job burnout experienced by 25% to 40% of U.S.workers is the leading occupational disease and responsible for more days lost from work than any other single factor.

Clearly, work ISN'T working for the majority of Americans...more insight on the solution to this serious problem to be posted soon.