Ivy Sea Issue Portal: Right Relationship and Good Business

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Much rhetoric exists in leadership and management circles about the importance of people to the organization's success. Millions of dollars are allocated to recruiting, training and keeping talented employees, and millions more on public-relations and advertising campaigns aimed as much to prospective and current employees as to investors and the general public.

Why, then, do many leaders and their management gurus casually use such degrading and deflating language as "human capital" and "retooling" employees? Why has the predominant trend of the past two decades been the elimination of people and the decimation of organizational culture for the sole purpose of building wealth for a slim minority of investors (despite negative effects on longer term productivity)?

We at Ivy Sea have created this portal as a place to house and discuss alternatives to this way of doing business; to share ideas about how to create a financially healthy organization that truly values the people it employs and serves — an approach that promotes right relationship as well as financial stability. We welcome your ideas, and offer a few of our own.

• Celebrating Independent Spirit
• Change and Communication
• Community and Dialogue
• Conflict and Communication
• Corporate Culture and Communication
• Ethics and Communication
• Leadership: Leading Virtual Teams
• Morale and Motivation
• Renewal and Transformation
• Right Relationships - Valuing People
• Social Responsibility
• Spirituality and the Workplace
• Storytelling: Unleash the Power!
• Strategy and Communication
• Vision, Inspiration & Creativity

The following web sites feature some nice resources and ideas for valuing people, and promoting right relationship and good business:

• Alfie Kohn's articles on motivation & more

• Calliope-Learnings from change agents in family-oriented social services

• Center for Visionary Leadership

• Context Institute

• Hope and Healing

• ICP — Postive Language and Naysayers

• International Listening Association

• Nathan Cummings Foundation

• New Internationalist Online

• People-Centered Development Forum

• The Campaign Against Workplace Bullying

• The Pecking Order Report on Hierarchy

• Work911.com's Article Indexing Project

• YES! A Journal of Positive Futures

We at Ivy Sea have found interesting content at the above-referenced sites, but do not endorse or vouch for any of the sponsoring organizations. Please surf and apply your findings mindfully. Suggest a site link.

While the purpose of this public-service website is to promote right relationship and good business, the following offers a selection of resources to get you started:

— Opinion series: What is right communication, anyway?

— Layoffs, morale and right-communication

— Six coaching strategies you can apply in the workplace

— What's your personal social responsibility?

— How can you uncover employee potential?

— Six great ways to recognize employees

— Why can't you skimp on good communication?

— What communication vehicles work best, and when?

— Think communication's a no-brainer?

— IvySea Organizational Culture Portal

— Tenets in common: honing virtue in the workplace

— Do you over-step boundaries with your clients or employer?