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1.2 Abundance vs. Deficit Thinking
Use this worksheet to help you identify how to abundantly respond to experiences in both your work and personal life.
10.1 Call to Action
In this video, Dave and Wendy explain how organizations can use the principles outlined in this book to change how leaders create the how and why for employees, and how individuals can change how they interact with the organization they work with and the world at large.
10.3 Personal Meaning Audit
People say that charity begins at home. The same is true for meaning. To become a leader who shapes and creates meaning for others, download and complete this personal meaning audit.
10.4 HR Transformation
Creating a more abundant organization most likely involves transforming how your organization touches its employees. See our recent book on transforming HR for a practical approach to implementing your HR transformation.
2.1 Seven Questions
In this video Dave and Wendy overview the seven questions that can help leaders create a compelling “why” for work.
2.2 Seven Questions
Download a printable version of the Seven Questions that form the basis of this book.
2.3 Assessment of the Abundant Organization
Download and complete this assessment in order to determine if you have an abundant organization.
2.4 Assessment of Individual Abundance at Work
Complete this assessment to determine how much individual abundance you have at work. As you complete this assessment think about your current personal experience with work.
3.1 MENTOR Leadership Battery
Find out what your personal leadership profile is by using RBL’s MENTOR Leadership Battery.
3.2 Leadership Code Assessment
Take RBL’s Leadership Code 360 Assessment to find out how well you perform in the baseline leadership competencies demonstrated by effective leaders globally.
3.3 Personal Awareness Exercise
Complete this exercise to help identify what your signature strengths are and how you can best use them at work.
3.5 Organizational Capabilities Audit
Use RBL’s Organizational Capabilities Audit to identify the critical capabilities of your organization and assist in the creation of an action plan that will increase the organization’s ability to deliver on its strategy.
4.1 Purpose
In this video Dave and Wendy present the four categories of purpose and how leaders can help employees find purpose in good times and in bad.
4.2 Purpose Assessment
Download the following worksheet to help you identify which purpose category is your strongest.
4.3 Meaningful Goals
In this video Wendy and Dave discuss the importance of and how to create an organizational aspiration that declares a socially responsible agenda and translates that agenda into individual action.
4.4 Insight into Motivation
Download this worksheet to help you identify what motivates you, your employees, and your organization.
5.1 High Performing Teams
In this video Wendy and Dave talk about the importance of, and how to build high performing teams
5.2 High Performing Teams
Download this overview to learn more about the characteristics of high performing teams.
5.3 Team Survey
Use this survey to find out how you are doing leading your own team at work.
6.1 Point-of-View on How to Build a Positive Work Environment
In this video Dave and Wendy talk about the importance of positive work environments and the 10 elements to focus on in building a positive work environment.
6.2 Work Environment Attitudes and Routines Assessment
This assessment was created to help you understand to what extent you focus on abundant versus cynical attitudes and routines at work.
7.1 Building Employee Brand
In this video Dave discusses how leaders personalize work to the unique employee requirements.
7.2 The Intrinsic Value of Work
Based on the premises that when people do work based on their values and when they work in settings that work for them, they create more value. As discussed in chapter 7 there are three different types of work: intellectual, physical, and relational. By taking this assessment you can determine what type of work best fits you and you can best create more value.
8.1 Applying the Learning Formula
Download the learning formula to find out how to generate ideas with impact.
8.3 Using the Pilot’s Checklist
In this video, Dave and Wendy explain how to use the Pilot’s checklist to help manage change more effectively.
8.4 Pilot’s Checklist
Download a printable copy of the Pilot's Checklist and learn more about resources for sustainable change management.
8.5 Organizational Viruses
In our work on managing change, we have identified more than 30 common viruses, common reasons why change does not proceed as intended. Download the full list organization viruses and learn more about virus busting.
8.6 Checklist for Acquiring Talent for Learning
Review the talent checklist for help in buying and building for learning and generalization skills.
9.1 The Importance of Delight
In this video, Dave and Wendy explain what delight is and why it matters.
9.2 HBS Article on Employee-Customer-Profit
Follow this link to learn more about how employee experiences at work can affect the bottom-line.
Video 3 - Building Your Business
Dave and Wendy Ulrich talk about the popular TV show Undercover Boss and explain that bosses do not need to go undercover to find ways to create meaningful opportunities for their employees.
Video 4 - Meaning Junkies
Dave and Wendy confess that they are meaning meaning junkies. They try to figure out how to provide meaning to individuals. Leaders need to help employees find meaning in their work because it will help create happiness for them as well as help the bottom line of the organization.
Video 5 - Competitive and Business Advantage
The inside of the organization affects the outside of it. Dave explains how this happens with 5 whys. Making meaning makes money.
Video 6 - Finding Meaning
Wendy talks about Victor Frankl's work on meaning, his experience in a concentration camp, and what kept him alive there. If people can find meaning in the worst possible conditions, we should be able to find hope at our work.
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