When working with clients, have you ever encountered someone who knows what they want but has no clue of what to do to get there? If you were trained as I was, then you were taught that, in order for a plan to be successful, it’s important that your client is the one to craft […]
The management style of the industrial age no longer suits the informational age. The bureaucratic, top down, authoritarian style is not effective with today’s workers. People are no longer motivated by rewards or fear of punishment as much as by being connected to the bigger purpose, having need-satisfying work, and exercising their independence and creativity.
Today I thought we’d talk about the friend to friend relationship. Included in this category are healthy intimate relationships, as well. When you are in a friend/friend relationship, external control is practically never external used. If you were to use external control with your friends on a regular basis, you would soon discover you don’t have any.
If you are a parent who uses a behavioral system for your child in terms of a point or level system, where they earn points for good behavior and lose privileges for bad behavior, my advice would be to reexamine this program’s effectiveness. I know I have written earlier that any type of external control […]
Choice Parenting by Richard Primason, PhD Dr. Primason writes a very compelling book for parents outlining concrete examples of how parents can apply Choice Theory to their parenting practices. His writing is very clear, with a common sense approach. He doesn’t promise miracles, but he does offer a way for parents to get what they […]
