“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” —Henry Ford

Finding Your Balance when the world is rockin' and rollin' is Leslie's latest speaking topic.

Finding Your Balance is a rousing presentation of understanding and principles about how to navigate challenges in the organization caused by wrenching changes in the external environment.

It's about how to tap into one's positive nature, and, how to revive one's quest for answers.

As it is with Leslie's other topics, her crucial point of departure is centering development around the facts of being and becoming together, and doing so with passion, resourcefulness, and optimism.

In business, taking care of the 'human resource' is much about helping it to thrive during good times, and tough times.

Leslie Yerkes,
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"Leslie makes everything interesting." - American Lung Association of Ohio  Mississippi Valley Conference

"Tons of energy and insight" "Fun speaker with good ideas to take to the workplace." - American Healthcare Radiology Administrators   AHRA Annual Conference

Is anyone feeling overwhelmed, stressed, chronically worried or even frightened?

Who wouldn’t be?

2009 was a tough year. 

Many people have asked me for my best advice about how to navigate through the tough times? Yet, I myself was out of sorts and grappling with last year's challenges too.

Then, while listening to a senior executive sharing his philosophies with a class room full of middle managers, I took away a learning that I think was really good advice for our challenges.

‘Be of good cheer.’  advised John Beeder, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for American Greeting. More than that: he told the group this was his number one success principle. I thought how his advice sounded simple yet also is a very powerful positive guidepost for me in these tough times.

And then, I knew I had an answer to the requests for advice about what to do during tough times.  The clues and tips and helpful principles were all around me, gathered from clients, colleagues, friends and family.  As I thought about this, I came up with at least 10 things that would serve us well to remember.

What charged my epiphany--where, what I wished to know anew I discovered was there all around me all the time--was John Beeder's deep reminder about how our own positive nature really can be the starting point. This helps us gather in all the helpful experience and knowledge around us--the very kind which re-connects us with our own positive hopeful potential, and, with the positive potentials alive in our key relationships.

Let's face it: one of the syndromes evoked in a long uphill slog through a challenging year, or through anything unwelcome, is a kind of contraction and withdrawal. I know in the business world and with organizational cultures, this is sometimes rationalized as being a necessary return to "basics." Often a term is used that shouts contraction: retrench!

Yup, let's all get into our trenches. No: time to crawl back out.

The tips and principles I recovered and put back into the front of my toolkit, are all in different ways about sustaining the whole person during challenging times. This 'whole person' shouldn't be the first commitment thrown to the dogs of a rough year.

I feel blessed now, in recognizing how Beeder's simple advice really asks us to drill down and open up our hopeful, optimistic core and allow this to fuel our working and playing our way to a new balance. . .when the world is rockin' and rollin'.

Go out and find something inspiring! Here's a video I found:

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