Texas Association for Pupil Transportation Designed and Presented By Dr. Cal LeMon Executive Enrichment, Inc. Hawthorn Chapter

It is Monday morning. You have had a great weekend working in the yard, dinner at Metro Grill and you even took a one-hour nap yesterday. This morning it was raining and Campbell was a parking lot. The person next to you

…in traffic, behind fogged windows, was playing his car stereo so loud, your heart is still keeping that beat. You got to your desk, clicked open your to find 38 messages! Your boss just came by to remind you a project report is due by 3:00 p.m. (which you have not started yet). In looking through your mail you found a memo indicating you made a series of basic accounting errors in a report to an influential internal customer.

The coworker next to you is asking for information about the new software program. You know the answer but this will take a long time to go through it, again! Your significant other is on the phone telling you he/she is sorry. Another coworker comes by to tell you he/she looked at your car in the parking lot and you have a flat tire…and…you just realized you do not have any more Tums left in your desk drawer.

1. Your organization is not exempt from chaos

Gasoline cost 19 cents per gallon on Glenstone.

Shady Inn and Aunt Martha’s were the best restaurants in town. Shady Inn and Aunt Martha’s were the best restaurants in town.

The Square was Battlefield Mall.

You could leave your house unlocked… all the time. You could leave your house unlocked… all the time.

Battlefield Road was… …a road.

Branson was a teeny-tiny spot on the map. Branson was a teeny-tiny spot on the map.

2. Change is not the issue; assimilation is.

Every living thing expends energy and will do whatever is needed to preserve itself, including changing. --Leadership and The New Science Every living thing expends energy and will do whatever is needed to preserve itself, including changing. --Leadership and The New Science

Every morning the gazelle wakes and knows that he must run faster than the tiger or he will be eaten. Every morning the tiger wakes up and knows he must run faster than the gazelle or he will starve. Every morning the tiger wakes up and knows he must run faster than the gazelle or he will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are a tiger or a gazelle, you better start running. -- Attributed to the CEO of Home Depot It doesn’t matter if you are a tiger or a gazelle, you better start running. -- Attributed to the CEO of Home Depot

3. There are no “John Wayne endings” for those who cannot cope with chaos.

“Machines are the new proletariat…The working class is being given its walking papers.” -- Jacque Attali “Machines are the new proletariat…The working class is being given its walking papers.” -- Jacque Attali

More than 800 million human beings are now unemployed or underemployed in the world.

Today, less than 17% of the workforce is engaged in blue collar work. Today, less than 17% of the workforce is engaged in blue collar work.

is always two years away from failure.” -- Bill Gates

“I argue that we have barely begun to understand what these rates of change mean for our daily work.” -- Peter B. Vail Learning As A Way Of Being “I argue that we have barely begun to understand what these rates of change mean for our daily work.” -- Peter B. Vail Learning As A Way Of Being

4. Your workplace will be externally changed by pending legislation

Getting better and better is no longer the goal; getting your market is.

5. This is the best of times!!

Why This Is The Best Time Disinflation The Baby Boom Spending Wave Main- Streaming of the Information Revolution

Is your organization expecting new skills from you? Is the “just- in-time” attitude present from both your internal and external customers?

Is your life getting more or less emotionally complicated at home? Are the schedules of others in your house jerking you around?

Are any of your close friends in crisis right now? Have you lost an important friendship recently? Do you have time to nurture friendships?

Do you have a health concern you have not shared with a medical professional? Are you getting enough sleep? Do you eat the right foods?

How would you describe the quality of your life? Do you regularly slip into periods of depression? What have you done in the past 24 hours that has made you laugh?

 Stage I -- Stability  Stage II -- Immobilization  Stage III -- Denial  Stage IV -- Anger  Stage V -- Bargaining  Stage VI -- Depression  Stage VII -- Testing  Stage VIII -- Acceptance  Stage I -- Stability  Stage II -- Immobilization  Stage III -- Denial  Stage IV -- Anger  Stage V -- Bargaining  Stage VI -- Depression  Stage VII -- Testing  Stage VIII -- Acceptance

Rising Expectations Lehman Brothers Washington Mutual Circuit City

Employees around the world have been strapped to the wheel of continuous improvement. With eyes glazed, they have repeated the mantra: faster, better, cheaper. Employees have found themselves working harder and harder to achieve less and less. That’s the reward for surviving the downsizing, outsourcing, and restructuring that have so dramatically thinned the ranks of industrial-age companies. ---Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution

Disillusionment of Diminishing Returns Xerox

“Economic Darwinism” “Economic Darwinism”

Bigger May Not Be Better General Electric

There is a fundamental geopolitical shift in the world of work that will continue for the next 25years. The entire paradigm of work is changing. Layoffs will be a permanent feature of the landscape.

Strategy Convergence “We will force you to look and sound like everyone else within the utilities industry.”

Five Questions in Will the “cry wolf syndrome” be a legitimate rationale? 2.Is our “monopoly status” negatively affecting our customer service? 3.Are employees complaining about the fact that things are changing like crazy? 4.Have we encouraged a “risk free” environment to “play” with new ideas? 5.Do people brag to friends about getting a position in your organization?

The Priority Indicator System 1. ________________________ 2. ________________________ 3. ________________________ 4. ________________________ 5. ________________________ 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____

The Priority Indicator System 1. ________________________ 2. ________________________ 3. ________________________ 4. _________________ 5. ________________________ 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ Talk with boss—yearly rev Clean out junk drawer Make call to Houston Do monthly report Plan meeting agenda O O O O OO O O OO O

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work her or she is supposed to be doing at that moment.” --Robert Benchley

Procrastination is acceptable perfectionism

When are you most productive? 8:00 - 9:00 1:00 - 2:00 9: :00 2:00 - 3:00 10: :00 3:00 - 4:00 11: :00 4:00 - 5:00

Strategies To End Your Procrastination Games 1. Live life in eight-minute segments. 2. Verbally challenge yourself with this question, “What is the worst thing that could happen if I started this project right now?” 3. Physically eliminate all distractions. 4. When distracted, use post-it-notes to alleviate the need to immediately respond.

5. Think of your self as too important and mature to keep playing these games. 6. Try an eight-minute R & R (Reward and rest. 7. Is this the way you would get things done if you had six months to live? 8. Decide not to be tired until a certain time. 9. Keep a journal of your internal struggles. You will become disgusted with your whining. 10. Write a contract with someone you trust which gives him/her the right to provide accountability.

The confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some idiot who desperately needs it.

“Stress is any physiological response to a threat.”

DISEASES OF STRESS The American Academy of Family Physicians reports that two-thirds of office visits to family physicians are the result of stress-related problems. Unresolved stress contributes, directly or indirectly, to six of the leading causes of death in the United States: coronary heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidental injuries, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.

Process of Burnout

1. Exaggerated Enthusiasm 1. Exaggerated Enthusiasm

#2. Stagnation

3. Frustration (Anger) 3. Frustration (Anger)

4. Apathy

Intervention: 5. Burn Out a. Positive (radical change ) b. Negative (trait anger)

Interventions for Peace D De-clutter your life and manage your need to consume D De-clutter your life and manage your need to consume

Interventions for Peace D Eat a sensible, balanced healthy diet

Interventions for Peace D Exercise three times a week for at least 20 minutes

Interventions for Peace D Designate one TV- free day each week

Interventions for Peace D Establish and/or renew your spirituality

Interventions for Peace D Find small children who will mentor you

Interventions for Peace D “Journal” each day

Interventions for Peace D Take cheap vacations which encourage a lot of staring.

Interventions for Peace D Learn the skills of “fair fighting”

Interventions for Peace D Surround yourself with a few beautiful things

Interventions for Peace D Space out your pain (when possible)

Interventions for Peace D Learn to laugh at and with yourself

LeMonaide for Your IAAP Leadership I work for my company, but I my first job is to take care of myself.