The above video clip is of Ty Howard, Renowned Motivational Speaker & America’s Untie the Knots(R) Consultant, speaking at his Spring 2012 Motivational BOOMTM Seminar event in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s a Day of Motivation and Professional Development for Everyone!
Ty is speaking on “Building an Attitude of Excellence.” Watch and enjoy as he connects, interacts, motivates, inspires and empowers the hearts and minds of the wonderful participants as he explains what it takes to build and maintain an attitude of excellence.
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews). Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
The above video clip is a short compilation video of the dynamic professional speakers who presented at the Motivational BOOMTM Seminar (Fall Event) on Monday, October 24, 2011 at the Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
The theme of the event: “Re-Igniting Passion for Growth & Success.” It was a Day of Motivation & Professional Development for Everyone! Watch and enjoy as one Baltimore Worldwide Speaker’s Bureau speaker after another motivates the hearts and minds of all in attendance.
Is your company, like many other companies today, struggling with and fighting to get ahead of the many challenges eroding employees, sales, the company, and ultimately, the bottom line?
Challenges like —
• Attracting Good Talent
• Keeping Good Talent
• Filling Jobs
• Controlling Your Brand
• Keeping Up Communication
• Creating Opportunities
• Excelling in Creativity & Innovation
• Selling in a Tough Economy
• Keeping Leaders Motivated, Focused & Committed
• Improving Employee Morale
• Sustaining Peak Performance
• Combating Gossip & Other Negative Behaviors
• Keeping Out Ethical & Legal Issues
• Building Efficient Work Teams
• Keeping a Healthy Workforce
• Making Excellence the Norm
If your employees start the day in a good mood – a motivated mood – it can have a huge impact on the company’s performance! It can be the difference between your company continuing to miss one desired outcome after another, or celebrating the successful accomplishment of one desired outcome after another.
To create and maintain a company culture where every employee is committed to and Excelling in Excellence will require more than a single executive or manager rallying the troops. It will require an experienced group of professionals who know how to motivate and empower professionals on all levels to continuously peak perform, and make Excelling in Excellence “the norm.” This is where and why you should register your entire office and yourself to attend the Motivational BOOMTM Seminar (Spring Event) on Friday, May 25, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Motivational BOOMTM Seminar will give you and your employees proven strategies to sharpen your business skills, ignite your motivation, effectively communicate and work as a successful productive team, accelerate your efficiency, cope with and embrace change, do passionate and meaningful work, boost you back to performing at your peak, continuously increase sales, achieve desired outcomes, and help you to increase your income. This BOOMING seminar has a consistently positive reputation for getting and keeping executives, directors, managers, supervisors and employees (on all levels, and from all professions, industries and educational backgrounds) — Green & Growing!
Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.”~ Wally Amos
Three male teens, living on an eighty acre farm, were instructed by their grandfather to venture out early the next morning to learn and find out what being a responsible and productive man in society was all about.
So, around five o’clock a.m. the three teen boys set out on their journey. Instead of taking the long winding dirt roads, the oldest of the three strongly recommend that they cut through the tall growing corn field because it would get them to town faster. About ninety minutes later, the boys arrived at the end of their grandfather’s farm only to find an eight foot high, solid wooden fence that appeared to go on forever around the boundary of the farm.
The next to the youngest boy sighed and said, “Come on ya’ll let’s go back. We will never get over this wall together.” The oldest boy mumbled disappointedly, “Hey… at least we can tell granddad we tried.” The youngest of the three teens, took off the hat he was wearing and tossed it over the fence and bellowed, “No! We can’t go back now because we now have to get my hat!” The youngest teen then looked quickly along the fence and found an extra piece of eight foot wooden board on the ground. He yelled out to the other boys, “HEY! Come help me lift this board and put it up against the fence, so we can get over the fence!” The boys did exactly that and all three got over the fence safely. The young man retrieved his hat, and the three boys journeyed to town to fulfill their granddad’s instructions.
The moral: Believe You Can — And Do IT!
The youngest of the three boys “Believed” that he and the other two boys could get over the fence. He just had to quickly create a more pressing reason for them to continue their journey. The tossing of his hat over the fence created, in the moment, a more pressing reason. It caused him and the other boys to “Act” instead of doubting themselves, quitting, and turning back.
It was Norman Vincent Peale who said, “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
Believe You Can — And Do IT!
Let me ask you, right here and now:
Are you a person who stops trying because someone else says it cannot be done?
Are you a person who doubts that IT can be done because many other people have tried it before, and failed?
Are you a person who needs to see four million, as proof, stand before yelling “I did IT! It can be done!” for you to even make a first attempt at IT?
Believing that you can do it will not, in itself, get IT done. Yet believing you cannot do IT will most certainly prevent you from ever making IT happen. So the choice of what to “Believe” is clear. Believe that you can, believe that you will, and you’re well on your way to making IT happen.
What’s your current IT that you want to get done or achieve?
Is IT —
* Better health
* Bringing yourself closer to a Higher Power
* Going back to school to obtain a degree
* Starting a successful business
* Finding a better career
* Becoming debt free
* Buying a home
* Starting over
* Ending a toxic relationship
* Eliminating a toxic habit
* Writing and publishing a book
* Improving some aspect of your family
* Successfully helping a loved one
* Creating and living a more meaningful life
Believe You Can — And Do IT!
Doubt is very easy to maintain, but it won’t get very much done. See how many of your doubts you can replace with positive and empowered beliefs.
If necessary, create your own “hat tossing moment” — and go after IT.
Every moment of every day, your beliefs guide your actions. Believe that you can, believe that you will, and your reality will reward you time and time again.
Believe You Can — And Do IT!
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- Extracted from Ty Howard’s best-selling book A Collection of Daily Inspirational Booster ( Book 1 of a 12-Series Set ). Pub date: January 2001 by Knots Free Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Do you know an organization that is tied up by the toxic knots of Conflict?
An organization tied up by leadership conflicts, teamwork conflicts, customer service conflicts, gender conflicts, diversity conflicts, gossip conflicts, morale conflicts, rumor mill conflicts, inappropriate behavior conflicts, verbal abuse conflicts, policy conflicts, communication conflicts, integrity conflicts… and it goes around-and-around.
Voilà, welcome to the Conflict Merry-Go-Round at Work!
You know what’s even worse: to have the Conflict Merry-Go-Round going around-and-around inside your workplace and not know how to effectively Untie the Knots® of Conflict to make it stop.
Conflict is a fact of life. When a diverse range of people work together every day, conflict is inevitable. Conflict in the workplace is generally the result of serious disagreement or ignored and avoided tension between two people or a group of people. In most cases, conflict in the workplace causes disorder and an uncomfortable work environment. At the very least, it can lead to low morale among staff. At worst, the results can become a very time-consuming and costly problem that can have a severe impact on a company’s overall performance and bottom line.
While conflict, tension and misunderstandings are normal and inevitable, if left unresolved they result in toxic stress, wasted resources, a drop in productivity, team separation, and an increase in employee call outs or misuse of sick time.
The good news? It doesn’t have to be and stay this way. Armed with practical step-by-step strategies and the desire to Untie the Knots® of Conflict at work, you can – over time – stop the Conflict Merry-Go-Round. In turn, creating a healthy, peak performing and harmonious work environment.
Here is a practical step-by-step process for working effectively through conflict in the workplace:
Step 1: Calm down / Cool off period.
Whenever there is a conflict between two people or a group of people at work, separate and allow the people involved to take a “Calm down / Cool off period.” The tension level of the conflict should be the barometer to help you to determine how long this period should be.
When emotions and minds become calm and clear, the process of conflict resolution becomes easier to steer (navigate).
Step 2: Set the stage.
Bring the people involved in the conflict to an empty meeting room where you can close the door and block out all possible distractions if the room has windows. Share with them the clear ground rules for the meeting. Make sure your ground rules have a clear and sound method on how communication will go and flow throughout the meeting. Also, let your people know that your goal as the leader of the meeting is to get everything out in the open in a professional, controlled and respectful manner, and to ultimately resolve the conflict moving forward.
Be mindful that as the leader of the meeting, you must lead by example while communicating and orchestrating the meeting in a professional, respectful and non-aggressive (attacking or argumentative) manner.
A conflict resolution stage well set leads to the successful meeting ground rules being met.
Step 3: Tell what’s bothering you using “I messages.”
When people share what’s bothering them using “I messages” or “I statements,” it unearths and creates the lines of open and honest communication. “I messages” evoke true emotions and feelings behind what’s being said.
An “I message” filled dialogue breaks people through the tension clog of conflict.
Step 4: Each person restates what they heard the other person say.
After each person involved in the conflict shares their “I messages,” have the other person(s) restate what they heard that person say. This step creates an opportunity for everyone to gain clarity and understanding of how the tension and conflict came about.
Restating what you heard allows the other person to bring clarity to their words, so no one is left to assume the other person’s behavior or intentions.
Step 5: Define the problem and take responsibility.
Once everything has been openly and honestly communicated in a professional, controlled and respectful manner, it’s now time for all involved to define the problem and take responsibility for their participation in the conflict.
When people define and take responsibility of their part in a conflict situation, they release healthy human intentions to resolve the situation.
Step 6: Brainstorm and evaluate solution options.
The most effective way to end a conflict between the people involved is to empower them to brainstorm and evaluate the solution options that will enable them to resolve their conflict.
People rarely reject solution options they brainstorm and evaluate to resolve their conflict problems.
Step 7: Negotiate down to one solution option, and create an agreement.
It’s great when people involved in a conflict come up with several possible solution options to resolve their conflict. This at least allows those involved to create an Option A, B, or C. In order to make this happen, the conflict participants have to negotiate down to one solution option, and create an agreement to execute the practicing of this one solution option immediately.
People rarely quit on the solution option they negotiate down to and agree on when working to resolve their conflict situation.
Step 8: Affirm, Forgive, or Thank.
Do not expect feelings, emotions and negative attitudes between people involved in a conflict to change immediately after one successful meeting. Depending on the situation at hand, resolving the conflict can often be a time-consuming and laborious process. If and when you make it to this step in working to resolve a conflict between people at work, simply look at it as progress, small victories won.
If you can get the conflict participants to “Affirm” that they will honestly work to uphold their newly instated agreement, that’s a small victory won. If you can get the conflict participants to genuinely “Forgive” one another without you forcing them to do so, that’s a small victory won. If you can get the conflict participants to “Thank” one another for listening caringly to what they had to say and to agreeing to work to resolve and move forward from the conflict, that’s a small victory won. Affirm, Forgive, or Thank are small victories to win and celebrate when it comes to resolving conflict at work.
Successful conflict resolution is always the result of small victories won, over time.
Step 9: Put the agreed upon option into practice.
What good is it to have a negotiated and agreed upon solution option for a current conflict going on inside your workplace, if you do not put it into practice? Just as strategic planning and execution of a new plan (goals and objectives moving forward) is highly important for the success of an entire organization, so rings true for the strategic planning and execution of a new plan (goals and objectives moving forward) to resolve conflict between people at work. Do not leave the agreement to resolve a conflict between the participants involved to mere words in the air and a shake of hands. Type up a short one page agreement of the participants’ agreement, and have everyone present at the meeting to sign and date it. Your agreement should state clearly and briefly what everyone has agreed to and acknowledge that the practicing and follow-through of the solution option is now officially in place.
When resolving a conflict between people at work, you must put into practice along with the initial agreement, a typed, signed and dated action plan. The action plan will act as a recall and coaching tool for everyone involved in the conflict resolution part of the situation.
Step 10: Schedule an impromptu follow-up.
Inform the participants involved in the conflict that there will be an impromptu follow-up to their successful meeting and signed agreement. When it comes to conflict resolution, I prefer an impromptu meet over an announced and pre-scheduled meeting. When participants know there is a pre-scheduled meeting, they often shape up and fly straight long enough to make it to and through the announced pre-scheduled meeting. Just let the participants know that there will be an impromptu follow-up meeting to take place within the next 90 days. In the meantime, you determine when and how you will call the participants back to and into your follow-up meeting.
If you wish to see and evaluate the true impact of your conflict resolution coaching skills and this process, always schedule an impromptu follow-up meeting so the real and true participants show up for the conflict follow-up session. This method will allow you to effectively gage if the conflict is completely over, or if you still have more conflict coaching to do until the situation is completely resolved.
Initially, this entire process may be extremely time-consuming and frustrating for everyone involved, yet, it needs to be done. If it gets too frustrating or you do not feel like you’re making progress, don’t quit on the process. No matter how big or small your conflict may be—you can do something positive and progressive to eventually break your conflict participants free. Stay the course!
Communicate to your entire staff or team that not all conflict is “bad,” it can be a driving force for creativity, innovation, and resilient solutions. That’s constructive conflict and should be within everyone’s skill set to navigate. Ask for their positive support and refusal to participate in any way that will make the conflict situation worse. When conflict becomes disruptive, hostile and creates an unsafe environment for people to work in, seek outside help immediately.
When working to Untie the Knots® of the Conflict Merry-Go-Round inside your workplace, be confident that you are moving in the right direction! If you do it right, and are consistent in showing your team that a harmonious work environment can exist and will benefit everyone, your employees will soon become more energized as they feel both empowered and safe. The time and effort you’ve invested will prove worthwhile. And as the dark gloomy cloud of conflict dissipates from over your company’s Conflict Merry-Go-Round, you will gain more and more control of slowing it down and eventually bring it to a stop. You will also find yourself feeling empowered, and will realize you built accountability by staying confident and committed to a practical process that enabled you to Untie the Knots® of the Conflict Merry-Go-Round at work.
Remember —
The Conflict Merry-Go-Round May Test Your Workplace,
Leaving It Tensioned and Toxic Inside.
Don’t Ignore It! Never Quit on It! Work to Resolve It!
You’ve May Have Been Delayed, But You’re RARELY Denied.
Make Today THE Day that you introduce and execute the process to—Untie the Knots® of the Conflict Merry-Go-Round at Work!
About the Author: Ty Howard,
Mr. Untie the Knots®,
Freeing Maximal Business, Performance & Human Potential Daily!
Ty Howard is an internationally recognized authority on personal and relationship development. He is the creator and lead facilitator of the trademarked “Untie the Knots® Personal Performance Process,” and the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots® That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships, as well as dozens of published articles on relationships, healthy habits development, empowerment and peak performance worldwide.
To learn more about Ty Howard’s consulting and professional speaking services, visit: http://www.TyHoward.com.
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
My guiding principle is this: Never allow others to judge your self-worth by your level of success, or by your level of fortune or misfortune. ~ Ty Howard
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews).
The above video clip is of Ty Howard speaking to the United States Department of Agricultural… Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at their Annual Leadership Meeting in Shepherdstown, WV in November 2009.
Ty is presenting his trademarked program “Untie the Knots(R): A Prescription for C.H.A.N.G.E.” Watch and enjoy as he discusses his “Assessing Your Current Work Habits” Assessment Tool with some of the brightest minds in the world (Researchers & Scientists of the USDA ARS).
Ty Howard of http://www.tyhoward.com is one of America’s TOP and in-demand business and motivational speakers on the circuit.
Ty Howard, Mr. Untie the Knots(R), is an internationally respected authority on self-development and business-development. He is a habits consultant, relationship expert, teacher, success coach, and professional development consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching knots-free living and relationship-building to organizations, individuals, and families around the world. Ty is the author of the best-selling book Untie the Knots(TM) That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships.
When doing a story on any aspect of Achieving Success, Motivation, Overcoming Life’s Challenges, Employee Morale, Balancing Work & Life, Relationships, Fatherhood, Habit Development or Breaking within People, or Professional or Personal Development…
Contact Ty’s Business Office: Maryland, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone; available for keynote speaking engagements, and radio / television interviews…(also available for last minute radio / television interviews). Toll Free Phone: 1 (800) 385-3177 (Maryland / USA)
