ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Soaring Eagle Institute June Newsletter</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> </head> <body marginheight="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" leftmargin="0"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background: #f1f0e8;" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <table cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#484845" width="100%" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="25" valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="header-text" align="center" style="color: #FFF; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 0 3px;"> <table align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="left" class="header-text" style="color: #FFF; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 0 3px;"> <a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=1&i=16&navicat=16" style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Register for a seminar</a> </td> <td align="right" class="header-text" style="color: #FFF; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9px; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 0 3px;"> Forward to a friend so they can <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/newsletter/" class="" style="color: #00ffff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">sign up for newsletter</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="main-title" style="padding: 0 10px; font-size: 24px; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 6px;"> <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="www.soaringeagleinstitute.com" src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/logo2.png" style="padding: 20px 0 0 10px; text-decoration: none;" /></a> <br />HELPING BUSINESSES THRIVE DURING RAPID CHANGE<br /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="date" valign="top" style="color: #333333; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;"> <br />June 2011 SEI Newsletter<br /><br /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" width="600"> <tr> <td> <!-- content --> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="600"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="250"> <table cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#e5e4dc" width="250" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sidebar-top-left.gif" alt="" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;"> <br /><br /> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">In this issue</strong> <table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="20"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bullet.gif" alt="" style="border: 0;" /></td> <td class="list" style="color: #cc0000; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">BUSINESS AS A GAME--PLAY VS. STRUGGLE</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bullet.gif" alt="" style="border: 0;" /></td> <td class="list" style="color: #cc0000; text-transform: none; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 0 20px 0; font-family: Verdana;">WHAT WE DO</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bullet.gif" alt="" style="border: 0;" /></td> <td class="list" style="color: #cc0000; text-transform: none; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 0 20px 0; font-family: Verdana;">2011 2ND QUARTER SPECIALS</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bullet.gif" alt="" style="border: 0;" /></td> <td class="list" style="color: #cc0000; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 0 20px 0; font-family: Verdana;">UP FOR ADOPTION: Attitudes on Technology Integration</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bullet.gif" alt="" style="border: 0;" /></td> <td class="list" style="color: #cc0000; text-transform: none; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 0 20px 0; font-family: Verdana;">SUMMER 2011 SEMINAR SERIES</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <br /><br /><strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">What We Do</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> <br /> <strong>SOARING EAGLE INSTITUTE</strong> is a consulting and training company that helps individuals and organizations soar to success through the tools of coaching, consultations, developmental activities, and experiential learning opportunities. We have served New Mexico organizations since 1992. Working co-creatively with clients, our expert staff of <em>Human Capital Advisors</em> develops cost effective, customized consulting and training programs to meet your organization's specific and unique challenges. <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 10px 10px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; color: #6600CC; line-height: 20px; text-align:center;">  If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible& . What wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility  <br /> -Soren Kirkengaaard <br /> </td> </tr> <tr><td><br /></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="article-title" height="45" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;" width="270" colspan="2"> <hr> SEI News & Announcements <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">Saturday, June 11: <br /> Let s Talk Business New Mexico </strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> Shauna and Dan will be featured on the radio show:  Let s Talk Business New Mexico on Saturday, June 11, from 6:00-7:00 AM to discuss Possibility Thinking with the host  <br /><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-style: italic; font-weight:bold; color: Maroon;" > Pulakos<span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-style: italic; font-weight:bold; color: Black;" >CPAs</span> </span> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size:small; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; color: Black;">Tax Ï% Audit Ï% Advisory Ï% Since 1960</span> <br /><br /> Tune in to KKOB AM Radio 770 and phone in your questions to (505) 243-3333. <a href="http://www.pulakos.com/lets_talk_business.asp" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/PAWebBox2.gif" alt="" width="200px" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.pulakos.com">www.pulakos.com</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.pulakos.com/lets_talk_business.asp" target="_blank">www.letstalkbusinessnm.com</a> </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">June 22: Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business, 9:00 am  4:00 pm</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p64&navicat=16&navisubcat=20&naviprod=64" target="_blank">This link will lead you to our registration site</a> where there is additional information. </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">July 13: Dan Gerry is presenting to a group of CEO s in Santa Fe -  Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business </strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">September 14: Shauna Rampley is presenting to a group of CEO s in Santa Fe -  The Self-Responsibility Path </strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> Both Shauna & Dan are available to make presentations to specific groups (professional organizations, civic or community groups, etc.  call us at (505) 255-9782 for more info. </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;"><a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/possibility-thinking-2-neuroscience-in-action-september-30-2011/" target="new">September 30: Possibility Thinking Class 2: NeuroScience in Action</a></strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> You ll definitely want to hold this date, as Dan has designed a wonderful follow-up to his first PT seminar. This one will knock your socks off, so watch more information. </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">July Newsletter</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> Watch for a 2nd installment of Dan s new theme  Business as a Game: Play versus Struggle. </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">June 2: Shauna WAS the speaker for the monthly meeting of the ASTD New Mexico Chapter</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> Her topic:  We Teach People -- Not Content. (based on Adult Education principles & Shauna s 30+ years as a trainer). A lot of information was gathered from the participants about methods that support Adult Learners, and other aspects of working with Adults  we transcribed all the data, and it is posted on our website  <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/shauna-rampley-presentation-for-the-astd-chapter-monthly-meeting/" target="_blank">Check it out on our new blog.</a> </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">Continuing Education Credits</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/walker.gif" align="left" alt="kudos" style="border: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: text-top;" /> Kudos to Dan for establishing our partnership with the Albuquerque Chapter of HRMA (Human Resource Management Association). He & Shauna presented a customized version of our Possibility Thinking course with special emphasis for human resource professionals. Participants with PHR or SPHR designation earned 6.75 HRCI Strategic Credits (CEUs). The feedback was phenomenal, and the chapter was so pleased they are offering two additional seminars facilitated by Dan & Shauna in the fall: <ul><li>Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business, August 26</li> <li>Strategic Communication with Stakeholders: Tools for Thriving in a Chaotic World, October 7</li> </ul> Both seminars will be co-sponsored by HRMA and the University of Phoenix Albuquerque Campus. Both seminars (or any other topics areas) may also be customized for other professions which require continuing education credits  contact us at (505) 255-9782 if you re interested in sponsoring us to obtain CE credits in your professional arena. To register, go to the SHRM website: <a href="http://www.hrmanm.org/event/august-2011-soaring-eagle-institute-neuroScience-meets-business" target="_blank">Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business</a> | <a href="http://www.hrmanm.org/event/october-2011-strategic-communication-tools-for-thriving-chaotic-world" target="_blank">Strategic Communication with Stakeholders: Tools for Thriving in a Chaotic World</a> or call the SEI office for more information, (505) 255-9782. </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px; text-align:center"> <strong><a href="Mailto:soar@soaringeagleinstitute.com">Shauna Rampley</a>,<br />Managing Partner at SEI</strong> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <br /> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ShaunaRampleySm.jpg" align="center" alt="Shauna Rampley, Managing Parnter of SEI" style="border: 0;" width="161" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> <br />June's newsletter has some great resources for you to explore, including:<br /> <ul> <li>Dominique Jones' article on attitudes toward adopting new technologies is a must read. Dominique is both a technology whiz AND a creative writer / writing coach who has been helping us move toward getting more of our career wisdom ready for internet publication. She s been patiently coaching us, helping us create a readiness to take this big jump, so we wanted to also let her share some of her own wisdom with you in the form of this article. <li><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p64&navicat=16&navisubcat=20&naviprod=64" target="_blank">Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business 2.0 Special Price</a>: Dan has expanded and upgraded the information in the first Possibility Thinking course. Especially if you attended in 2009 or 2010, we d like to offer you a discount price to come and enjoy the seminar again on June 22 and experience the latest  upgrades to Dan s wonderful course. Regular price $149, newsletter readers may come for $99 (enter discount code NEWS201105 at checkout), or 2 people may attend for the price on one (enter discount code NEWS201106 at checkout). For more, see 2nd Quarter Specials below. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="article-title" height="45" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;" width="270" colspan="2"> <br /><hr> 2011 2nd Quarter Specials <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: none; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">DiSC Self-Assessment<br />Subscriber Exclusive</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;" align="center"> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/disc.gif" /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> Improving Communication and reducing conflict, the DiSC assessment is used worldwide in training and coaching. <ol> <li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p52&navicat=14&navisubcat=18&naviprod=52" target="_blank">Special Coaching Package:</a> $135 includes DiSC self-assessment and 1.5 hour interpretation / coaching session </li> <li><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p10&navicat=14&navisubcat=18&naviprod=10" target="_blank">2011 Newsletter Subscribers Only Special:</a> DiSC Self-Assessment instrument special price $29. 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Especially if you attended in 2009 or 2010, we d like to offer you a special price to come and enjoy the seminar again on June 22 and experience the latest  upgrades to Dan s wonderful course. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> <br /> Exclusive offers for SEI newsletter subscribers only: <ul> <li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p64&navicat=16&navicat=20&naviprod=64" target="_blank">2 for 1:</a> Choose a quantity of 2 and Enter Promotion Code <em>NEWS201106</em> when you register, and two can attend for the price of 1!</li> <li style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p64&navicat=16&navisubcat=20&naviprod=64" target="_blank">Special Discount Price $99 (Regularly $149)</a> Enter Promotion Code <em>NEWS201105</em>. 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While most people go into business to make a living, you will create a business worth living! <br /><br /> It includes a 6-hour DVD program, and a self-paced workbook. Regular Price: $249) <ol> <li><a href="https://soaringeagle.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=4&i=p24&navicat=20&navisubcat=22&naviprod=24" target="_blank">Internet Special</a>: $129. </li> </ol> </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;"> <em> Could your team use help in communicating more strategically with stakeholders?</em> <br /><br /><strong>Consider Strategic Communication with Stakeholders: Tools for Thriving in a Chaotic World.</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 16px;"> <br /> During this interactive seminar, you will learn skills for weathering the changes in our economy. 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Like most of you I m happy to see the summer season arrive a time to lighten up, play a bit more, and think of new possibilities. As most of you know, we at Soaring Eagle Institute specialize in Possibility Thinking, so we hope you join us in opening up to new ways of being in your business and/or your lives. Our theme for June is  Business As A Game: Play versus Struggle . We, like many of you, are grappling with the effects of the recession on our business and on our own attitudes. Fortunately, we know from our intense exploration of neuroscience research in developing our expertise in Possibility Thinking how much success depends on where we put our attention. Since we ve long understood that Business is a Game, we re putting more of our focus on play and challenging ourselves to stay out of unnecessary struggle. I ve written an article featured in this newsletter issue about two remarkable leaders who found ways to be more consciously playful at work and what happened on the job as a result of their contagious attitudes and non-traditional approaches. I hope you enjoy their stories and feel inspired enough to share some of your own experiences by commenting on our <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/your-world-at-work-struggle-or-play/" target=_blank>Blog page</a>. <hr /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="article-title" height="35" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;" width="350" colspan="2"> Your World at Work: Struggle or Play? </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;" colspan="2"> <em>by <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/about_us/#dan_gerry" target="_blank">Dan Gerry</a>, Senior Partner at SEI</em> <br /><br /> I was visiting recently with a good friend who has worked in specialty nursing for many years in the health care industry. In prior conversations she s gone on and on about the many problems in her workplace--too many patients, too few staff, high stress, fears about the next layoff or staff reduction, everybody hunkered down trying to survive the daily grind  sound familiar? <br /><br /> Knowing that she has a very intense job treating patients with drug overdoses, PTSD and severe psychological disorders, I was surprised by how much her morale and energy level had shifted in the short time since I had last seen her. She mentioned that her unit had a new physician manager -- was it possible that just a seemingly small change could move her so quickly from dreading work to looking forward to each day with renewed energy and enthusiasm? I had to know more about her new physician in charge! <br /> <hr /> <strong>"Somehow in a couple of weeks he d been able to lower the stress level, make work more fun, improve teamwork and even get the staff to feel a renewed sense of pride and accomplishment."</strong> <hr /> <br /> My friend s face and voice lit up as she began telling me how much her new boss loves his work, laughs and kids around, and seems genuinely interested in the well-being of patients and staff alike. She was surprised, she told me, when he asked her what she thought was going well and what could be improved in the unit, and even more surprised when he told her he wanted her to join him during new patient intake interviews. He told her that together they would be able to more accurately assess incoming patients needs and develop more creative and appropriate treatment plans than if he followed tradition and did this by himself. <br /> <br /> What she seemed most touched by was his playful and loving nature. Somehow in a couple of weeks he d been able to lower the stress level, make work more fun, improve teamwork and even get the staff to feel a renewed sense of pride and accomplishment. <br /><br />I was struck by her frequent use of the word  playful as she described her boss actions and the positive effects his playful nature was having on morale and patient outcomes in the unit. She brought to mind a similar experience I had in 9th grade with a remarkable teacher& still vivid in my memory after all these years. <br /><br />Pete Dunn-Rankin was a late-20 s new instructor hired to teach advanced math courses at my junior high school in Sarasota, Fla. He stood out as the only teacher who seemed genuinely happy to be there. I can still see him walking down the hall whistling a tune and greeting his students with a warm smile. There were rumors that he was single and spent his free time digging clams with his toes in the shallows of the nearby bay& lending credence to notion he was a  free spirit . <a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/your-world-at-work-struggle-or-play/" target="_blank">[...Continue To Full Article Online]</a> <br /><br /> <strong style="text-align: center;">--------Special Invitation!!--------</strong> <br /><br />1. No doubt somewhere in your travels you ve run across a conscious leader or two! We d love to hear about a great boss or leader from your past and what made her/him special. <br /><br />2.We re also interested in knowing what experiences you ve had with fun and play at work& is it helpful or distracting? <br /><br /><a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/your-world-at-work-struggle-or-play/" target="_blank">Click this link to provide your comments</a> we d love to hear from you! <br /><br /><strong style="text-align: center;">---------------------------------------</strong> <br /><em>In our July Issue, I ll be continuing this conversation related to play at work by sharing neuroscience findings and suggestions for raising the PQ (Play Quotient) at your workplace or in your personal life.  I ll also have some comments on a Gallup study that reveals how minimally engaged most Americans are in their jobs and some steps you can take to become more personally engaged and/or help others find more meaning in their work.  A better bottom-line awaits!!</em> <hr /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;" colspan="2"> <!--<img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/febcartoon.jpg" width="350" alt="Image" style="border: 0; display: block;" />--> <!--<br /><br />--> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table border=1 width="75%" align="center"> <tr> <td align="center" style=" background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px; font-size: 12px;"> <h2>Contact Us Today at <br />(505) 255-9782</h2>All SEI partners and associates are available as <strong>keynote speakers/presenters</strong> for conferences, professional associations, and special events. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/Images/speaker_web.jpg" height="180px" style="text-align:left;" /> <br /> <h2>Continuing Education</h2> We also customize presentations for any professions which require continuing education (CE) credits. <br /><br />Contact us if you re interested in sponsoring us to obtain CE credits in your professional arena.<br /> <h3>Email Us: <a href="mailto:soar@soaringeagleinstitute.com">soar@soaringeagleinstitute.com</a></h3> </td></tr></table><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="article-title" height="39" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;" width="350" colspan="2"> Summer 2011 Seminar Series </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 0 0 20px;"> <strong class="subtitle" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">Possibility Thinking: NeuroScience Meets Business</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;" colspan="2"> How many times have you come up with brilliant possibilities for your life or business  and then immediately dismissed them as  Impossible without a second consideration? The latest NeuroScience research explains why our efforts toward success get derailed by our own minds. Learn how the brain functions and how to manage your mindset more effectively. <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2DobWe7I4" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PossibilityThinkingClip1.jpg" align="left" /> Video Clip from Possibility Thinking Featuring Dan Gerry of Soaring Eagle Institute</a><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <table width="350"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="subtitle" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase;">Possibility Thinking: NEUROSCIENCE MEETS BUSINESS</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="60%" class="subtitle" style="background-color: #e5e4dc; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">Date</td><td class="subtitle" style="background-color: #e5e4dc; display: block; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 10px 0;">Time</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="60%" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/2011/possibility-thinking-neuroscience-meets-business-june-22-2011/" target="_blank">Wednesday, June 22</a></td><td style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana;">9 am  4 pm</td> </tr> </table> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqo68EXLImo" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PTTestimonial1.jpg" align="left" /> Click here to see what people are saying about Possibility Thinking </a> <br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr><td><hr /></td></tr> <tr> <td class="article-title" height="35" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;" width="350" colspan="2"> Up for Adoption: Attitudes on Technology Integration </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="content-copy" valign="top" style="padding: 0 20px; color: #000; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px;" colspan="2"> <br /><em>by <a href="http://www.larntz.com" target="_blank">Dominique Jones</a>, Consultant and Writer at Larntz Enterprises</em> <br /><br /> <strong><a href="http://www.larntz.com/?p=306">Read Full Article or Listen to Audio Version by Clicking Here</a></strong><br /><br /> <!--<img src="http://www.soaringeagleinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/JimNwsltr.jpg" align="left" alt="Jim Masica" style="border: 0;" width="130" />--> So many clients ask questions about adopting a new technical tool a new type of computer such as an iMac, a handheld device such as a smart phone, a new type of software, using Facebook and Twitter in their marketing strategies, or a new application service such as Smashwords to publish their ebook. The answer is, inevitably, it depends. <br /><br />What does it depend upon? <br /><br />The technical environment, the person s abilities, the uncertainty of the person s computing situation, and the complexity of the technology. Somehow, though, that list feels like business- and techno- babble. <br /><br /><strong>Deferred Decisions about Adopting New Technologies</strong> <br /><br />It s a lot like a situation I find myself processing in life around installing a ceiling fan in my dining area. I have been circling a solution to upgrade the ugly gold-colored pendant that sits directly in your line of sight as you enter our home. The main problem is that it clashes with everything else in our house. For years I have gone through a hemming-and-hawing process. <br /><br />I have heard that changing a light fixture is simple. I have a loop in my mind that is always looking for the ultimate ceiling fan/light fixture that will blend into our southwestern architecture. I find something that costs at least $500, ponder, and dismiss it as too extravagant. After having fixed our water filter through research and experimentation, I also started researching how to hook up a light fixture on my own. I read a few sections in a book while standing at Home Depot. I watched home shows in frame-by-frame motion to grok the process of hooking up light wires in the ceiling. Of course, I searched online and watched YouTube videos. I even considered taking an adult education course on electrical maintenance. And I ended up getting a $15 replacement pendant cover to hook somewhat recklessly onto the bottom of the existing chain. <br /><br />I am simply not comfortable changing and upgrading the light fixture at the wire level, no matter how much I read. And this story has been unfolding for five years. <br /><br />That is a long time to suffer a line of sight I would like to improve. I think some of my clients suffer technology woes with the same non-starter experience. They have the spirit to move forward, and they know they would like something different, improved, more modern. They just feel inadequate to handle the whole thing, and they don t even know which parts they should do themselves vs. which parts to contract. A feeling of discomfort leads to deferring the change that could help them appreciate technology more. <br /><br /><strong>Personal Design for Technical Literacy</strong> <br /><br />Like home design, there are so many choices in too many places when it comes to adopting a new hardware or software tool. There is a whole industry with its own language and standards that can serve as a barrier to action for someone who doesn t know the right words to use to explain what they would like. The sheer number of choices and lack of simplicity conspire in a situation fraught with entropy. While commercials and emergent social mores send the message that technology is passing us by, the truth is that many people are passing technology by because they are presented with too much to absorb. <br /><br />We are in times of change, like the early 20th century when electricity was not yet stable. Rural areas did not all have electricity at that time; just as rural areas do not all have Internet access at present. Electricity was run as a for-profit business and unregulated for decades. It was a young industry, and, similarly, we are still in the first 50 years of the widespread propagation of computing and networking. <br /> <br />Because the Web and the new communication abilities have brought such a dramatic change to our lives, in many cases easing burdens and making life easier, we focused on innovation after innovation. And businesses have a stake in prompting us to buy the latest generation of items. However, there is another aspect to creation that has not yet been experienced and embraced in the technology world: appreciation. <br /><br /><strong>Multiple Approaches to Learning New Tech Skills</strong> <br /><br />Instead of experiencing the joy of all our new capabilities as time progresses, we appear to be stuck, like a record skipping on a turn-table, in a cycle of innovate-improve-innovate-improve-innovate when it comes to interacting with technology. It feels like a junkie yearning for the latest gadget, or sounds like someone throwing up their arms entirely and saying  I am just not technical! It looks like the delusion that if you do not understand technology you are not  smart. Or it looks like the delusion that all our students have access to the Web and to the tools they need to  compete in the 21st century. <br /><br />Instead of training our future generations to compete with technological skills, why not view tech as one more in a set of tools we can use to personalize our life experience in new and fascinating ways? After all, the technical tools we use are like other tools we use to build our environments, and we don t require everyone to become an electrician in order to enjoy better lighting. <br /><br />Or, we can view the technology we pick up and use as a game that is not so serious. Or, my personal favorite approach, we can view our interactions with technology as an art that we use while living our lives a creative way to express ourselves as we paint the story of our lives onto the canvas of time. <br /><br /><strong>Positive Technology Adoption</strong> <br /><br />Whatever our circumstances in the technical world, we can consciously choose to enjoy our next steps. Positive psychologists who study happiness, such as David G. Meyers, are helping us define new definitions of human progress, and I think this applies to human technical progress as well. Meyers research showed, in his article  Who Is Happy? that  wealth is like health: its absence can breed misery, yet having it is no guarantee of happiness. I would extend this concept about happiness to our interactions with technology as well. <br /><br />Being cut off from modern technologies can be limiting and painful as you try to navigate the online world, but after you have acquired a fairly small set of technical skills, you will have enough to get around. However, requiring yourself to learn limitlessly can set you up for feeling pressure. If you are suffering in any kind of technical project, know that the problem-solving and meeting the project timeline are a lot less important than witnessing your enjoyment in learning and creating new abilities. You have the power to choose your level of engagement, and you may find a happy truth that when they are made easier, you do enjoy things like video conference with your friends and family, recording your own audio podcasts, sending text messages or email on a smart phone while you are traveling, and other creative projects. <br /><br />The freedom to choose is the greatest freedom I know so far, and we deserve enjoyment as much (or more) than we deserve innovation. Technology s rise has brought with it a speed that is akin to desperation and technical innovators are tangled in a trellis of dark capitalism/competitiveness that has swept our culture for a few decades. Possibilities, however, have emerged alongside the greed and addiction. We can choose from profound communication capabilities and powerful automation capacities. <br /><br />As it stands, however, there are trade-offs for implementing powerful technologies. It takes considerable capital and a hefty investment in learning new details. Even choosing an option to try is a process of details, details, and more details. It s a delusion to think we can buy a new smart phone and immediately use all of its features without studying them and trying them out in several ways. We will not merely flip a switch and be able to navigate the virtual world. <br /><br /><strong>You and Technology, Hand-in-Hand</strong> <br /><br />One of the secrets to choosing technologies that work for you is to pace yourself. Choose only as much as you need. If you study and learn fewer things, you will have more time to enjoy your knowledge about the things you already have. Similarly, if organizations keep their automation projects more humble and realistic in scope, rather than reaching to be on the edge of innovation and to customize extensively, they can enjoy the improvements in their operations more. <br /><br />The decision about how much to learn and imbibe of the new virtual landscape is very personal and we all can feel good about our level of interest. A good decision can come from the place where you feel genuinely curious about something, and free from pressure. If you start asking a lot of questions about a technical subject and you feel joy while you are asking (instead of dread, fear, frustration, or some other barrier), that is a clue that it would be a nice thing to explore learning to do yourself. <br /><br />If you do not want to learn something, but want a system set up for you that is a great option, too. For example, I would not want the electrician I hire to change my light fixture to explain everything they are doing in detail so that after they leave I can change my own light fixture the next time. I would rather just hire them twice. <a href="http://www.larntz.com/?p=306" target="_blank">[Click to read the conclusion of this article online...]</a> <br /> <br /> <strong>About the Author:</strong> Dominique Jones is a technology coach and writer with decades of experience as a software engineer building custom Web applications. 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