Purpose Unlimited

1. Purpose Unlimited Transforming lives, leaders and organizations through the power of purpose www.PurposeUnlimited.com

3. Four Questions • What’s your practice’s most valuable asset? • What creates your practice’s biggest problems? • What’s your practice's purpose (mission statement)? • What industry dominates the help wanted section of the classifieds?

4. Content in my life and job. Content in my job, but not my life. Content in my life, but not my job. Don’t have a job or a life. On New Year's Eve, KRMG polled listeners on their web site asking them to complete this sentence, “As a I look back on 2001, I am...”

5. Content in my life and job. (31%) Content in my job, but not my life. (4%) Content in my life, but not my job. (60%) Don’t have a job or life. (3%) The Responses were:

6. Firms spend billions to fire up workers — with little luck. There’s no proof hot coals or speeches motivate the troops. -USA Today Headline

7. 3.7% more work/person= 18 more minutes/8-hour shift= $355 billion increase in GDP

8. 55% of employees have no enthusiasm for their work

9. 19% poison the workplace

10. How do organizations attempt to motivate people?

11. “...research may one day show that the only long-lasting motivation will come from employees who bring it to work with them in the form of God, spirituality, or something else that causes them to ‘rise to a higher purpose.’”- Spencer Johnson, Source USA Today

12. Manipulation vs. Motivation

13. Organizational Development You train animals and develop people

14. Principle of Organizational Design • Form follows function • Function follows purpose

15. Mission Statement PURPOSE

16. The Banker

17. Purpose

18. What’s your organization’s purpose? • Positive • Powerful • Simple • Serving

19. Microsoft To help people and organizations around the world maximize their potential

20. Cargill To be the global leader in nourishing people

21. Partnering Purpose

22. Team-Actualization

25. Partnering Pioneering Purpose

26. “It is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”- Max DePree

27. What’s Your Reality?

28. Like Cows Standing at a New Gate

29. 6 Stages of Change* • Precontemplation • Contemplation • Preparation • Action • Maintenance • Termination *Prochaska, James O., DiClemente, Carlo C., & Norcross, John C. (1992). In Search of How People Change: Applications to Addictive Behaviors. American Psychologist, 1102-1113

30. Maintenance Action Preparation Contemplation Precontemplation

31. Maintenance Action Preparation Contemplation Precontemplation

32. Termination • Fear of aging…you know what that reflects, Mitch? Lives that haven't found meaning. • If we accept the fact that we can die at any time we’d live our lives differently.

34. Partnering Pioneering Purpose Profit

35. The Western Story

36. The Eternal Questions • How do I wish to live? • In what do I believe? • What do I want from life? • What do I have to give to life?

37. In the old west, a brand not only identified a ranch's cattle, it was a symbol of pride and loyalty for all of its cowboys — they rode for the brand. People today want to be partners in a cause that is purposeful, heroic, adventurous and idealistic — like cowboys of yesteryear they want to ride for the brand.

38. “People are capable of the highest generosity and self-sacrifice. But they have to feel that what they are doing is truly heroic, timeless and supremely meaningful. The crisis of modern society is that people no longer feel heroic.”

39. “Men resemble God in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.”- Cicero

40. Purpose Unlimited Transforming lives, leaders and organizations through the power of purpose www.PurposeUnlimited.com

41. Links for Today’s PresentationGo to www.purposeunlimted.comClick on Free Downloads • The Transformational Power of Purpose Small Group Process • Riding for the Brand Debriefing • IMGMA Power Point