Entrepreneurs, managers, parents, teachers, and-at some point-everyone have to explain goals and intentions to another person in order to enlist help in achieving them. Too often, those brilliant explanations fall on seemingly deaf ears. They just don't get it! Instead of blaming them, this book counsels readers to look within, and shows that "their" problem is often "our" problem. Using the popular parable format, and illustrated with clever line drawings, They Just Don't Get It! gives knowledgeable, down-to-earth behavioral suggestions for opening communication, achieving goals, and building teams. Offering insight into the reasons ideas aren't implemented in an expected manner, the book provides the reader with personal insight into how to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally. Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Leslie's measure of her success as a business leader and consultant is that she applies to herself first all the consulting principles in which she engages her clients. In her work as an organizational development / change management consultant, her goal is not to be positioned as an expert but rather as a trusted advisor.
Her philosophy is simple: People are basically good, well intentioned, courageous, and able to learn. Her job is to provide a framework in which people can draw on their own inner resources to find creative solutions. Her consulting work has supported organizational success in diverse industries and non-profit fields with its focus on organizational change, strategic planning, and, above all, healthy sustainable organizational performance.
Leslie is co-author of the best selling 301 Ways to Have Fun at Work (Berrett-Koehler:1999) and the author of the Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work (Berrett-Koehler:2002;revised 2nd edition 2007) Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times or Bad (Jossey-Bass 2003;) They Just Don't Get It, Changing Resistance Into Understanding (Berrett-Koehler: 2005;) and Beyond Kicks and Carrots, Motivation for the 21st Century (Norma Sustenere: 2008.)
As a speaker and facilitator, Leslie has traveled throughout the United States and brought her passionately inspirational, seriously playful sensibilities to memorable presentations, workshops, and speeches.
Leslie's wide-ranging expertise is a product of her unstoppable curiosity and thirst for learning. At the same her expertise has a simple and profound focal point: that a person's work life best serves organizational success when it also sustains the highest purposes of the person. This is why her research and findings about fun and at work have struck a deep chord with clients and audiences. She's onto something important for the health of the workplace today, and tomorrow.
She founded Catalyst Consulting Group, Inc. in 1987. Leslie lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. She likes to play in Sweden and Europe, but she'll play anywhere. Her list of favorite activities includes reading, fly-fishing, scuba diving, cattle drives, community theater, swimming with dolphins, and time spent with family and friends.
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