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Ron Willis Motivational Seminar

I recently attended a seminar that was a mandatory requirement of my job. The speaker, Ron Willis, a motivational speaker from Kansas, comes one or two times a year to improve moral in our workplace. The title of this seminar was Recoginizing Your Nature, "It can be a Real Zoo around here." He developed a list of 60 personal attributes of people and catigorized them under names of four animals: lion, otter, beaver, golden retriever. We went through the columns of attributs and ranked them as they applied to our own persoality. Added them up, and that resulted in us being categorized as one of four animals. Obviously, the lion is the strongest willed, after next, beavers more into doing a job well, and golden retrievers more into relationships with people. This seminar was about three hours long. The purpose was to help identiy a category we fit into and consequently haw we interat with people in other categories. The seminar also showed how each categoring of people changed as stress was added to their jobs, and then when the stress of the job was at crisis level. The focus was to help realize the problems that develop and how we often deal with them and as a result how we could better deal with then without hurting our relationships with our co-workers.

posted by kevin @ 12:53 PM