Seeing Red Cars Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future

by Goodrich, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781605097275
• ISBN10: 1605097276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-07
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

We all have a natural tendency to focus on what we don't want to happen, rather than on what we do want to happen., All this time and energy spent on worrying about avoiding pain and loss dominates far too many organizations, suppressing employee engagement and crippling growth. To escape this workplace culture-killer companies need their employees to look forward and focus intentionally on what they do want to happen.InSeeing Red Cars, expert trainer and speaker Laura Goodrich draws an enduring metaphor to show managers and their employees how to make the shift. It's a well-known truism that if you buy a red car, you suddenly start noticing red cars everywhere. By extension, if we make a conscious decision to focus on positive desired outcomes at work (and commit to a plan of conscious practice), we experience dramatically positive effects. The transition to affirmative thinking begins one person at a time and then grows, spreading virally through local teams and eventually the entire organization. Once a critical mass of employees has made this change, the Seeing Red Cars mentality becomes a part of the organization's core engine, driving growth, innovation, and bottom-line results.Seeing Red Carsprovides a process that helps readers craft affirming 'œI Want' statements and a plan for taking monthly, weekly, and daily steps in the desired direction. Animated throughout by the popular 'œred cars' metaphor, the book's three-stage methodology raise awareness, turn insight into action, turn action into outcomes enables readers to both shake destructive habits and achieve personal and organizational goals. Throughout, Goodrich draws on well-documented research on the brain and human behavior and provides entertaining and enlightening stories culled from her 15 years of coaching and advising hundreds of leaders and organizations through change and transition.

Author Biography

Laura Goodrich specializes in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships. She has twenty-five years of professional experience, fifteen of which she has spent as a corporate trainer, coach, consultant, and speaker. She has a degree in Training and Organizational Development from The University of Minnesota  and has received coach training from both the Corporate Coach University and the Coaches Training Institute. Laura is also an active member of the National Speakers Association and ASTD, and is on the faculty at ILearning Global. Laura is co-owner of an integrated content company that specializes in authoring and producing videos, documentaries, television series, speaking and coaching.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Focus on What You Want	p. 1
Why We Focus on What We Don't Want	p. 12
Rewire Your Brain for Better Outcomes	p. 29
Play to Your Strengths and Control What You Can	p. 39
Tune in and Take Charge	p. 59
Craft Personal ôI Wantsö	p. 75
Craft Professional ôI Wantsö	p. 98
Turn Actions into Outcomes	p. 125
Drive Red Cars to Critical Mass	p. 138
Conclusion: It All Begins with You	p. 148
Seeing Red Cars Visual, Auditory, and Tactile ôTriggersö	p. 150
Seeing Red Cars Toolkit At-a-Glance	p. 152
Acknowledgments	p. 154
Notes	p. 158
Index	p. 162
About the Author	p. 172
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