Foundation for Creating Supportive Environments

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	• How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton Gallup Press, 2004 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 87 reviews view larger image
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Foundation for Creating Supportive Environments

This book gets you out of bed and into the world by telling you how to make a world you can want to live in now.

The Magic Word, Positive!

We see so much on this idea of being, acting and feeling positive. The use of 'bucket' as a metaphor really works showing you how you put in and take out of your 'bucket'. Great book and similar to the Law of attraction. Read Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook that deals with positive thoughts that activate beliefs and then having the positive attitude attracting other positive experiences, people and things into your life.

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Everyone in Business Should Read This Book

The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know EverythingI had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Rath on my radio show a few years ago, The Enchanted Self. I was very impressed with his dedication to positive psychology. As a pathfinder myself in the field, but soming from a completely different place (my path began with insight oriented psychotherapy, feminist issues and then case study research with women) I was intrigued by the business model presented in this book. It makes so much sense. Of course people will perform better at work if they are praised and encouraged to develop their strengths and talents! Of course people will have more hope and be more productive. Why wouldn't all companies use the techniques that the authors suggest? This may be an easy read, but it is not superficial. The techniques and approaches outlined are rigourous in that they force people to change personal habits, ways of viewing each other, and ways of interacting. But I can only imagine our world if everyone out in the workplace would take on the major steps outlined in this book. I think we would all benefit. We would have happier employers and employees who knows what that would lead to. Maybe happier families at home and a more productive work place. Wouldn't that be a win-win!

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Does your bucket have a hole in it?

HOW FULL IS YOUR BUCKET by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton explores the benefits of positive reinforcement in business, scholastic, marital and other settings. This is an easy read with sound information presented in ways that are applicable immediately. The work focuses on the premise that we each have our own bucket. Positive reinforcement, given or received, fills the bucket. Negative interaction, given or received, dips out of our bucket.

Good examples are given such as John Gottman's marital study of 700 engaged couples. Gottman concluded after just a 15 minute video of each couple's interaction, which couples marriages would end in divorce. His predictions, 10 years later, were over 90% accurate, clearly illustrating the necessity to fill buckets with praise, rather than drain them with nagging and negative interactions. Perhaps a good indication of our current 50% divorce rate.

I actually purchased the book on CD and it came with some additional web-based free content, which I have not yet looked at. I can only assume the book carries the same additional access. My one knock on this CD set is, even though it is unabridged, it is only about 3 hours total. More information in the form of case studies and implementation would have added greater value.

I believe this book would be helpful in many different situations, but would particularly recommend it for business leaders, married couples and parents.

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Who filled my bucket?

A quick read, this book provides a fairly straight-forward approach to improving our environments and interactions in work and in life. Using the metaphor of "the dipper and the bucket," the authors present their research-backed (and commonsense) theory that people do best in environments that fill---rather than drain---them. People who loved "Who Moved My Cheese?" and "The Secret" will likely eat up this book as well. Although the theory may at times be a bit too simplified and watered-down (sorry to rain on the positive parade), it provides a good reminder of what makes us tick---and what ticks us off.

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How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person ? your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger ? "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before? The number one New York Times and number one Business Week bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life ? while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic.

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