Coaching Materials and Resources for Modern Leadership
Don’t Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success
Hardcover: $12.79
Kindle: $15.00
Genre: Business Culture
How can you get to the bottom of workplace behaviors that simply don't work for you or your organization?
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: March 3, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Length: 256 Pages
Narrator: Sylvia Lafair
ASIN: B001U5VJOK
ISBN: 0470404361
List Price: $24.95
eBook Price: $13.00
Don't Bring it to Work
How can you get to the bottom of workplace behaviors that simply don't work for you or your organization?
About the Book
Don’t Bring It to Work explores what happens when patterns originally created to cope with family conflicts are unleashed in the workplace.?This groundbreaking book draws on the success of Sylvia Lafair’s PatternAware program Total Leadership Connections. Throughout the book she shows how to break the cycle of pattern repetition and offers the tools that can turn unhealthy family baggage into creative energy that will foster better workplace associations and career success.
Lafair identifies the thirteen most common patterns that correspond to characters familiar to anyone who has ever worked in an office: Super Achiever, Rebel, Persecutor, Victim, Rescuer, Clown, Martyr, Splitter, Procrastinator, Drama Queen or King, Pleaser, Denier, and Avoider. To help overcome destructive behavior problems, she maps out the three main steps for becoming aware of patterns and finding the way OUT
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Pattern Aware Success Guide: Companion to Don’t Bring It to Work
Paperback: $14.25
Genre: Education & Reference
This is a daily guide that will help you increase your self-awareness and ability to be a leading force in your workplace. It will help you to strengthen your capacity to Observe, Understand and Transform patterns that you no longer need nor want.
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Genre: Education & Reference
Publication Year: October 28, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 68 Pages
ASIN: 1436814351
ISBN: 0988362546
List Price: $14.25
Pattern Aware Success Guide
This is a daily guide that will help you increase your self-awareness and ability to be a leading force in your workplace. Use it as a daily roadmap to find the way OUT of what no longer supports your life. It will help you to strengthen your capacity to Observe, Understand and Transform patterns that you no longer need nor want.
About the Book
In this step by step guidebook you get simple and quick daily lessons to help you untie the ‘NOTS’ as in “cannot, not good enough, not possible” that get in the way of professional and personal power. Learn to be faster and smarter in making decisions and problem solving using the OUT Technique™ now called by professionals around the world:The Ultimate Method for Emotional Strength Training. This is the highly valued companion to Dr. Sylvia Lafair’s award winning book, ‘Don’t Bring It to Work.’ In just minutes each day you learn to loosen those knee-jerk reactions when someone pushes your buttons. From now on YOU are in CHARGE of what to say, how to say it and when to say it. “The tools and tips in this guidebook have saved me countless hours resolving work issues with my staff and even better, I take what I learned home and my family benefits, as well.”
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GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change
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Kindle: $5.95
Genre: Management & Leadership
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy: to speak out, take risks, and stand at the leading edge of change. But most of us need a nudge.
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Genre: Management & Leadership
Publication Year: November 6, 2012
Format: Paperback
Length: 142 Pages
ASIN: 1436814408
ISBN: 074146893X
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eBook Price: $5.95
How Women Leaders Make Change
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy, to speak out, take risks, stand at the leading edge of change. For most of us we need a nudge. So, this is a great book to get you started on your path to being GUTSY!
About the Book
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy, to speak out, take risks, stand at the leading edge of change. For most of us we need a nudge. So, this is a great book to get you started on your path to being GUTSY! Youll learn to Observe and Understand behaviors that have stood in the way of true collaboration, and Transform into the world of outstanding partnership. From exploring models of being GUTSY, to what it means to have a pink or blue blanket this entertaining book will give you the puzzle pieces to build a GUTSY You!!
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Gutsy Success Companion Guidebook
Paperback: $14.25
Genre: Success
The Gutsy Success Guidebook is the companion Workbook to the Award Winning GUTSY
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Genre: Success
Format: Paperback
Length: 68 Pages
ASIN: 1436814926
ISBN: 0988362538
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Success Guide Book
The Gutsy Success Guidebook is the companion Workbook to the Award Winning GUTSY
About the Book
The Gutsy Success Guidebook is the companion Workbook to the Award Winning GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change. It takes 90 days to stop a pattern or habit. This guidebook is filled with 90 days of exercises that any leader can use to break those patterns. Now, the keys to peak performance at work and at home, are at your fingertips.
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Unique: How Story Sparks Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement
Paperback: $11.95
Kindle: $5.99
Genre: Business Culture
Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore.
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: June 12, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 146 Pages
ASIN: 1436814611
ISBN: 0988362511
List Price: $11.95
eBook Price: $5.95
How Story Sparks Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND CONNECTED Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore.
About the Book
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND CONNECTED Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore. This book helps you find your story, your place as a leader. “Story is the most powerful tool in a leader’s arsenal,” says Harvard Professor Howard Gardner. Stories teach us about courage, creativity, compassion, and collaboration. Once you learn to tell your story you develop a personal brand that puts you head and shoulders above your peers. Become the best you can be with these important business tools: SANKOFA MAPPING™ to see behaviors that are handed from generation to generation The OUT Technique™ so you can Observe, Understand and Transform behavior patterns PEP Talks™ to discuss difficult subjects and get great results.
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Invisible Stress: It's NOT What YOU Think!
Paperback: $11.95
Kindle: $5.99
Genre: Business Culture
Even before you’re aware of it, invisible stress can quietly control your life. Sylvia Lafair reveals this hidden level of stress and offers practical tools to identify patterns and reduce overwhelm.
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: October 5, 2021
Format: Hardcover
Length: 120 Pages
Narrator: Sylvia Lafair
ASIN: 0988362570
ISBN: 0988362570
List Price: $11.95
eBook Price: $5.99
Invisible Stress (It's NOT What YOU Think!): Identify and Change the Patterns and Behaviors Controlling Your Life
Survival Guide to identify your INVISIBLE STRESS, Live in the SAFE STRESS ZONE, and ENRICH YOUR LIFE
About the Book
You first become aware of stress and you then seek treatment. But what if you are not aware of it in the first place?
Invisible stress. Surprisingly, there is a level of stress that can remain hidden. It is this form of stress that award-winning author Sylvia Lafair, Ph.D. brings to light in 'Invisible Stress (It's NOT what YOU Think!): Identify and Change the Patterns and Behaviors Controlling Your Life'. "
• Discuss the fourth level, invisible stress, with information not available till now.
• Gain cutting-edge methods to tackle root causes of overwhelm and self-doubt.
• Acquire powerful yet simple ways to make stress work for you.
• Gather tips to build confidence and strengthen resilience during tough times.
• Learn how to adopt healthy daily behaviors to stay in the safe stress zone.
• Explore coping mechanisms to manage today’s accelerated rate of change.
• Master new leadership skills for less stress and a more harmonious life.
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Five Leadership Development Lessons: Taking the OUCH from Office Politics
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Kindle: $5.99
Genre: Human Resources
Transform your communication by breaking old patterns and harnessing the power of dialogue to prevent conflict and foster collaboration—because talking together is the first step to truly working together.
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Genre: Human Resources
Publication Year: October 28, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 40 Pages
ASIN: 1436814836
ISBN: 0988362554
List Price: $9.99
eBook Price: $5.95
Five Leadership Development Lessons: Taking the OUCH From Office Politics
Break the Cycle of repeating the same old ways of communicating and learn to use the power of dialogue to prevent conflicts and produce cooperation. Talking together is the foundation of working together.
About the Book
Break the Cycle of repeating the same old ways of communicating and learn to use the power of dialogue to prevent conflicts and produce cooperation. Talking together is the foundation of working together. In this book you learn the behavioral ground rules for getting past simple “yes” and “no” answers to find new and powerfully creative solutions to problems. Explore the FIVE vital lessons for leaders to take the OUCH from frustrating conversations: 1. Telling the truth is NOT spilling your guts 2. Work is NOT a rehab facility 3. Dialogue is NOT just emotion and repetition 4. Outcomes are best if you stay open NOT attached 5. You win when you see everything as connected NOT separate Leave outdated ways to communicate and resolve conflict in the recycle bin. Dialogue defuses defensiveness and creates camaraderie filled with practical wisdom.
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The 21st Century GUTSY Heroine’s Journey: How to Transform Chaos and Conflict to Calmness and Collaboration
Paperback: $9.99
Kindle: $4.99
Genre: Motivational
Each person’s journey is both unique and similar. Follow our Heroines’ stories in this book to help you as you travel the uncharted territory of finding what really matters in your life.
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Genre: Motivational
Publication Year: November 11, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 46 Pages
ASIN: 1436815276
ISBN: 0988362562
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eBook Price: $4.99
Gutsy: The 21st Century Heroine's Journey
Each person’s journey is both unique and similar. Follow our Heroines’ stories in this book to help you as you travel the uncharted territory of finding what really matters in your life.
About the Book
Each person’s journey is both unique and similar. Follow our Heroines’ stories in this book to help you as you travel the uncharted territory of finding what really matters in your life, to creating all the beauty and joy imaginable. You will have to face challenges and dangers. Know that a mentor will be there to guide you. And when you return you will have a new freedom that is contagious. Once you are back you can use your special knowledge to help others. When the call to adventure comes, answer it. Of course, you will have doubts. Answer anyway. So, Ms. Heroine….. …Keep Going and Keep Growing
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Leadership Quotes: Bumper Stickers for the Brain
Paperback: $5.99
Genre: Motivational
Quotes exist to spark fresh ways of thinking. These are the ones that leapt off the pages as I sifted through countless others while researching for this book.
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Genre: Quotations
Publication Year: November 25, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 52 Pages
ASIN: 1436814778
ISBN: 0988362503
List Price: $5.99
Leadership Quotes: Bumper Stickers For The Brain
Quotes are really there to get you to think in new ways. These are the ones that seemed to jump from the pages and pages of quotes that I was looking at for this book.
About the Book
Quotes are really there to get you to think in new ways. These are the ones that seemed to jump from the pages and pages of quotes that I was looking at for this book. Take one or two and post them near your computer or on your mirror in the bathroom. We all need these “bumper stickers” to remind us about what really matters on those days we tend to forget who we are and why we are really here. Who knows, some day one of your quotes may be in another book to help folks you will never even meet. Keep believing in the goodness of the women and men and all the children of the world and together we really can make a difference. As James Baldwin says, children will imitate their elders. Let’s give them the positives of life to imitate.
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Working Together: Producing Synergy by Honoring Diversity
Hardcover: $11.44
Paperback: $14.79
Genre: Business Culture
Working Together gathers some of the best writing on working with diversity. This anthology honors a multiplicity of viewpoints as part of a larger evolutionary shift in expanding the planet's consciousness.
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: April 9, 2001
Format: Paperback
Length: 260 Pages
ASIN: 1476986626
ISBN: 1576751562
List Price: $18.95
Working Together: Producing Synergy By Honoring Diversity
Working Together gathers some of the best writing on working with diversity. This anthology honors a multiplicity of viewpoints as part of a larger evolutionary shift in expanding the planet's consciousness.
About the Book
Working Together gathers some of the best writing on working with diversity. This anthology honors a multiplicity of viewpoints as part of a larger evolutionary shift in expanding the planet’s consciousness. Mikhail Gorbachev describes diversity as a key factor in creating a “”new civilization””; anthropologist Riane Eisler proposes a partnership approach between men and women; and Suzie Williams offers diversity-based “”recipes for synergy””.
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Leadership Communication Webinars
Discover new ways to effectively handle old problems in the workplace.
Get a core understanding of effective communication, conflict transformation, essentials of coaching, and office politics. View all or choose the one you need most right now.
Get the "But" Out Of Your "Yes"
We talk all the time and don’t really think about what we say. This webinar elevates your communication skills by preparing you to ask the right questions at the right time. Get away from ‘communication addictions,’ the habit of repeating favorite words over and over that trap you.
You will gain an understanding of how the power of language affects your body and stress.
Give Change a Chance
How often does change occur in your business? How do you prepare for change, or do you have a plan? This educational video will help you lead the different personality types within your organization, through all the changes that are inevitable.
The Chemistry of Coaching
A thriving career often comes from having a great guide or mentor… especially when blind spots make you swerve off the path to success. Sylvia’s best advice is to GET ALL THE HELP YOU CAN.
Some of the best help is with a certified coach, someone who already knows the pain of defeat and the pride of the win.
This video will help you determine:
- The questions to ask when searching for the perfect coach
- Why you must make sure the coach can go back to the past and not just start with today
- When it’s time to graduate from your coaching sessions
Communicate to Captivate
Success over the long-term means more than letting your work speak for itself. YOU must speak for your work. It’s not about speaking over someone, tooting your own horn, or waiting to be polite. It’s about the words and phrases that will capture attention and captivate the listener.
This video will give you some techniques to communicate, captivate, and convince!
Learn how to:
- Express your ideas powerfully and comfortably
- Engage your colleagues with the creativity of the story
- Enter into vital dialogues with the right words
- Encourage others to align with you
Transforming Conflict to Collaboration
High performing teams and families are always able to debate, disagree, and dispute. It’s when there is avoidance and denial that conflict gets swept under the rug, tensions fire up, and anger erupts.
When healthy conflict methods are learned then you’re able to listen to divergent points of view to make better decisions.
You will gain tools to:
- Manage the emotional climate of your team (or family)
- Maintain healthy listening and talking boundaries
- Make and implement hard decisions in a timely manner
More Resources from Dr. Sylvia Lafair
Practice Safe Stress... For Your Health
What happens to you when things are not going your way? Do you hide under the covers and become a zombie? Or do you hit the “yell button” and let the whole world know you do not like what is happening? Read this and learn to move from either “Zombieville” or “Freakoutville” to the smooth highway of Safe Stress. For leadership development and executive coaching, this gives you the skinny on how to handle your emotions at work and then bring what you learn home. You will be better off for it.
How to Speak Genderly
Did you ever wonder what happens to the words that come out of your mouth and go into someone else’s ears? How many times have you said “that’s not what I meant to say?” Or how many times have you said “What are you talking about?” Men and women react differently to stimulus words and the more you can use the right words at the right time the more your leadership skills will soar. This sets you in the right direction for healthy and meaningful conversations. This stops office politics in its tracks.
7 Ways to Successful Group Dynamics
The days of the solo hero or heroine are over. If you really sit and think about it, we really are all connected and no one wins unless we all do. What a great motto for a work team who wants to be the best in the company. This paper gives you the 7 core ways that teams need to cooperate, learn to listen to each other, and respond with accountability. These dynamics have been successful in team building activities around the world. After all, the essence of every team is a group of individuals who would prefer to succeed and that means doing it together.
Gotcha!
Can you remember the first time you were a participant in the Gotcha’ Game? For most of us, it was when we were kids either with our siblings or at school. Many of us became masters at this type of one-up-man-ship activity. Problem is that at work, it lowers productivity and destroys trust. Learn how you can be a leader in stopping this dreaded game before it becomes toxic. Leaders who know what to look for can stop GOTCHA in its tracks, build trust, and foster collaboration that leads to loyalty and team accountability. More effective communication leads to less office politics.
No Problems Here!
There is a great yet sad scene in the film “Titanic” where the captain of the biggest, most modern ship of the era suggests that a slight turn near an iceberg is all that is needed… until crunch! This is just like those at work who nod their heads in disbelief and say, “There were no signs that anything was wrong,” (Enron anyone?) except the signs are always there. This paper will help you know what to say to a denier or make you look at yourself in the mirror to see if this is one of your own patterns and what to do about it. This is a key behavior pattern that can destroy unless it is transformed.
DON'T BRING IT TO WORK (Audiobook - Unabridged)
Struggling with workplace behaviors that hold you back? Don’t Bring It to Work shows how family-based patterns can surface at work and offers tools to transform them into creative energy. Drawing on Sylvia Lafair’s Pattern Aware program, the book outlines the 13 most common patterns—from Super Achiever to Avoider—and guides you through three key steps to recognize them and break the cycle for better relationships and career success.
The book includes a wealth of real-life anecdotes and practical, workbook-style exercises that clearly show how anyone can get beyond old, outmoded attempts at conflict resolution and empower themselves to make profound differences both at work and in their personal lives.