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Elephant Sized Changes at Dancing Elephants!
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Article Overview: 2007 is here and with it has come a number of exciting changes at Dancing Elephants! We’ve changed physically and psychologically and we want you to be able to learn from our experience. It’s been an interesting few weeks around our office and we’re excited to share the changes with you.
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Elephant Sized Changes at Dancing Elephants!
2007 is here and with it has come a number of exciting changes at
Dancing Elephants! We’ve changed physically and psychologically and we
want you to be able to learn from our experience. It’s been an
interesting few weeks around our office and we’re excited to share the
changes with you.
To start the New Year, we rolled up our sleeves and went to work on
the office itself. Will and I have successfully transformed Lynn’s
office from a storage closet to a real office , ala While You Were Out. We then did a Clean Sweep, purged the clutter and swapped offices with each other.
Finally, while we were in the midst of all that change we decided to institute a whole new culture at Dancing Elephants!
Why all the change, you might ask? If you’ve spent any time with us
at all, you know that we deeply believe that humans are creatures of
habit. It is those habits that drive us towards, or away from, our
goals.
As we looked at our own personal goals for the upcoming year and
beyond, we realized that we had two kinds of habits that were keeping
us from reaching our wildest dreams.
Our physical habits of work, including piling and filing, getting
distracted by visitors and not creating a sense of urgency in our
office were holding us back. These habits were preventing us from
moving forward. We decided the best way to change those habits was to
change our external environment and force ourselves to consciously
create new, better ways of getting our work done.
Based on just the first two weeks, I’d say it is working fabulously.
The biggest change, however, has been our cultural shift. After
coming back from a conference a few weeks ago, we realized that we had
wandered off the path of our mission of having fun in our work. We had
become or were becoming stodgy drones, more concerned with appearing
professional than enjoying our work and our clients.
That’s all changing at Dancing Elephants. We have made a commitment
to having fun together; celebrating our successes and the amazing
people we get to work with each day. When you visit, you’ll likely hear
more music, see more high-fives and big smiles. You might just hear a
whoop and a holler every now and then. Feel free to add your own joyous
noise to mix!
In addition, you’re going to see some changes in our programs. We’re
adding more fun to them as well. We’ll be featuring “Hot Seats” in some
of our seminars and teleseminars, where attendees will have the
opportunity to get mini-makeovers right in the session.
In Elephant University look for more fun, interactive classes, games
being added to teach concepts and just plain old humor and amusement.
We’ll still be guaranteeing results, we’re just gonna have a bigger
blast getting them.
I hope you’ll join us in the fun this year and please feel free to
add suggestions for ways we can help you grow financially,
professionally, personally and educationally. We’re listening with big
elephant ears!
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