Option: Alert Related Organizations
Your
organization probably interacts with other charitable and for-profit
enterprises to do its work. Though their charter, policies, and operations
may differ significantly from yours, they all are subject to the toxic
effects of the [wounds + ignorance]
Pause and reflect - which other
organizations are most important to your own? Think for a moment about the
decision-makers in them. Do you feel they would be interested in learning
about the cycle and its effects on their productivity and effectiveness?
Would it benefit your organization to alert them?
The
most direct, impactful way of doing so is to propose a personal briefing on
the cycle for their CEO and/or personnel or human resource directors.
Another way is to compose a concise description of...
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the cycle and its
organizational effects, and...
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options for reducing the effects - and
adding it to your Web site. (Option - use this address
http://sfhelp.org/prevent/intro.htm - with appropriate credits.)
Then
notify appropriate contacts in each organization of the Web address of this
description and its purpose, and the benefits of studying and acting on it.
Another option is ask people in your organization who meet with members of
related organizations to say a few words to them about the cycle, and give
them a descriptive handout and/or reading list
like this one.
Another option is to make a display or presentation on preventing the cycle
and its effects at a business conference which your other organizations
attend. Another option is to publish an article or series in appropriate
print and electronic trade publications.
There are
many different ways you can choose to alert the people in related
organizations - these are suggestive. A key is keeping a clear vision of the
human and corporate good that can come from making the effort to do so!
Option: Alert the Public
A
final way you can help to reduce and break the [wounds + ignorance] cycle is to inform
other people in your region or country as a public service. See
this for an overview of many ways to do this.
As we
end, take a moment to identify how you stand on the key ideas in this series
and article:
Status Check
Reflect - which
are guiding your personality right now? How do they feel about
proactively alerting your co-workers and audience to the [wounds +
ignorance] cycle now? T = "true;" F = "false,' and ?
= "I'm
not sure," or "I'm ambivalent, so far."
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I have honestly
assessed whether false-self wounds and related ignorance are harming
me and my family now, and threatening my descendents (T F ?)
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I clearly understand each of the
that comprise the cycle now, or I'm motivated to get clearer on
them in the next several weeks (T F ?)
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I can now describe to an average adolescent
(a) how the cycle
the generations, and (b) the main personal and social
of the cycle or I'm committed to learning these in the next
several weeks (T F ?)
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From one (trivial) to ten (extremely serious
and impactful), I feel this [wounds + ignorance] cycle ranks as a ___
compared to other major social problems (T F ?)
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I have honestly assessed the
nurturance-level of my
work environment,
and am content with what I found (T F ?)
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I feel solidly motivated to alert my
co-workers and colleagues to the cycle - or
at least one or more of the component topics - and what it means to them
personally and professionally now (T F ?)
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When I'm old, I want the satisfaction of
knowing I patiently and creatively used my talents, knowledge and energy
to help people guard themselves and their kids from the impacts of this
[wounds + ignorance] cycle. (T F ?)
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Recap
This
article is one of a series that focuses on how
average lay and professional people can help to break the [wounds +
ignorance]
that is silently eroding American marriages, families, and our nation's
wholistic health. The article focuses on specific ways that executives in
any charitable or for-profit organization can help to do this, once they
learn six
and evaluate themselves and their
families for toxic
of the cycle.
The
first essential step for executives - starting at board-chairperson and CEO
levels - to adopt the attitude that reducing the effects of this cycle is
in the best interest of your employees, customers, shareholders, and the
public, and is a moral obligation. This humanistic view must supercede the
traditional capitalistic attitude that effective business relationships
should implicitly exclude employees' personal problems or goals.
Key cycle-breaking options include...
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evaluating the
nurturance-level of your organization, and taking proactive steps
to raise it, as needed;
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alerting (a) your top, middle, and first-line managers,
(b) all other employees, (c) your customers, and (d) your stockholders to the cycle, its
and business effects,
and what to do about them;
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strategically weaving key cycle-topics into
(a) employee performance reviews (b) staff development programs, and (c) hiring and
termination procedures;
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deciding if, how, and when to alert
any active (or future) (c) unions and (d) support organizations like
subcontracted Employee Assistance Plans (EAPs). Health Maintenance
Organizations (HMOs) and insurance carriers;
and possibly...
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alerting the local or general public as a
community service.
Major
benefits for your investing in such cycle-breaking steps include (a) great
personal satisfaction, (b) lower employee turnover and retraining expenses,
(c) higher employee productivity and morale; (d) lower employee-benefit
expenses, and (e) a public image of being "a good place to work."
Not investing
in these prevention steps risks mediocre or poor organizational performance, and
passively contributing to
the decay of our nation and culture. How much are such benefits worth to you
now?
Can
you name other organizational goals that are more important, long range? If
you have an organizational mission or vision statement, would it be useful
to revise it to include the spirit of these practical, humanistic
steps?
Reflect - why did you read this article? If you didn't get what you needed -
now?
The Web address of this
two-page article is
http://sfhelp.org/prevent/biz_execs.htm