Remember your manners, sharing is caring! View this email in your browser We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity. Charity Spotlight Tackle Kids Cancer is a partnership of dedicated clinicians, researchers, corporate partners, and community supporters working to fund medical research to find a cure for pediatric cancer. To date, Tackle Kids Cancer has raised $4.5 million from over 6,000 supporters. Our cutting-edge research programs make your dollars go even farther, as discoveries made now will help keep all children healthy in the future. How Do You Mean?

Tell me more; I want to know more about what you are saying. This replaces “What do you mean?”, which can come across as more abrasive and put people into a defensive mindset.The goal of How do you mean? is to elicit a response and not a reaction. What do you mean? has too often been used in a combative situation and brings along negative feelings when used. By simply replacing "What" with "How" you can remove the reaction and get a response to your question without putting people immediately on the defensive. Link Roundup Lessons Learned from Moving a Corporate Headquarters - Sharp may not have moved far, but there was a lot that went into the move.

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8 Tips for Leading Your Best Life - Richard Branson sums up his 66 years of experience on how to lead your best life. What Team Building Has Taught Me



A question that comes up in team building exercises a lot is “What is the best way to do this activity?” Adults are big kids and much like their younger days, they are looking for someone to tell them the quickest, most efficient way to do something. Here’s where the catch lies – many times I look at a group and think to myself that their strategy is the worst strategy and there is no way they will be successful with that strategy. You guessed it, they often succeed! Then there’s the flip side, I see a group struggling and offer my two-sense worth of experience. Low and behold, I add to the struggle. Am I saying experience isn’t worth it and that we shouldn’t listen to the advice of others? No, there are several lessons at play here. First and foremost, I am not a member of the team and I don’t know how this team works. My advice is based on my experiences and there’s a good chance that this group does not fit the bill of the people I have seen been successful performing in a certain way. Each group is different and advice is always welcomed, but what you do with that advice needs to match your team. Secondly, from the management level, I have learned from these exercises, as Seba Smith so eloquently referenced to it in The Money Diggers, there is more than one way to skin a cat. From my perspective, I have grown through all of these team building activities to the point where I don’t see a need to micro manage – I don’t tell people how to do something, but rather what I would like done. It is their job to figure out how to accomplish the goal I set for them. After all, that is why we hired them, right? To find a solution to the problem that we are facing and then to implement that plan. So, to wrap it up, be grateful for advice, but make sure that the advice given matches the dynamics of your group and let your co-workers do just that, work.