If you are an employee you want to succeed. If you are someone who manages
employees you want them to succeed -- in part because it is expensive to train
and then replace well-trained workers. Relatively few employees fail because
they can't perform the assigned tasks adequately; most who fail do so because
they relate to others in ways that present problems.
On the other hand, successful employees succeed both because they apply
themselves to their assigned tasks, and because most of the things they say and
do in interactions with colleagues, supervisors, and others tend toward to be
positive. To say it another way: Successful employees make effective choices in
their work life and in their personal life; both environments are important
since difficulties at home often carry over into the work environment, and vice
versa. At key points successful employees STOP, THINK, and CHOOSE in effective
ways.
BUT, even employees who are successful can improve their moment-to-moment
communications and polish their choice-making skills. The fact of the matter is
that all of us have developed our communication and choice-making skills rather
like Topsy: They just grew, after many trials and many errors, and as a result
of reinforcement and rejection along the way.
ON THE CREST: Growing
through effective choices is designed to help people look at the kinds of
choices they make and consider how they might improve their choice-making
skills. This light-hearted paperback based on the Choice Awareness system is an
easy read that is loaded with concepts and suggestions designed to help people
explore the ways in which they make their choices, and expand the range of
choices available to them -- within the workplace and beyond.
People can read ON THE CREST
on their own, or it can be explored in a group. Detailed guidelines for ON-THE-CREST groups are
presented in the book, and 12 of the 31 chapters can be read on this web page.
The List of Publications
offers links to 8 other books that could be of relevance for the employer or
employee -- including two for elementary- and two for middle-school-aged kids.
Parents whose kids are "driving them crazy" because of the choices
they make should look first at their own choices, but another line of action
would be to explore together with their kids the kinds of choices both the
parent and the child are making, using ON THE CREST as a vehicle.
To get a deeper sense of what STOP-THINK-CHOOSE is all about, please review
the List of Publications,
peruse the Choice Awareness
concepts, and explore the five CREST Choices. Then click on Ordering Information to
obtain copies of ON THE CREST: Growing through effective
choices and other sources so you or the employees you manage can make the
most of the choices that are available in all the avenues of life.
SEMINARS: Dick Nelson
is available to conduct seminars for employees on STOP-THINK-CHOOSE and the
fundamentals of Choice Awareness. He can be reached through e-mail via LET'S TALK, or through STOP-THINK-CHOOSE, P.
O. Box 2272, West Lafayette, IN 47806.
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