Newsletter - Spring 2007

U Techniques Newsletter - TAP into the power of YOU!

Welcome to Unique Technique newsletter!

Our newsletter is chock full of tips and techniques for you! We are constantly looking for those articles or stories that will help you TAP into the power of YOU!
Take a moment to review some of the tips highlighted and grab hold of the ones that you can immediately act upon and put into play in your life.

CHANGE! A Roller Coaster Ride, Here we go again!

Today we live in an environment of constant change. We look around us and nothing seems the same. No one can afford the status quo no matter what you do, work in the corporate world, self-employed, or a stay at home Mom/Dad. How do we manage the powerful emotions that change sparks in all of us? First of all YOU have to recognize the emotions and discover how YOU perceive and react to change.
Change is never smooth. We often feel like we are on a roller coaster ride, something like Disney’s Space Mountain. Being carried along in the unknown, dipping, turning and rising at lighting speeds. This is often frightening and can be perceived as dangerous. In the same way as a roller coaster can be scary, change is perceived in the same way. Reaction to change can be considered in four stages. Watch for these stages as YOU experience change.

• Denial: Withdrawal, focus on past
• Resistance: Anger, blame, anxiety, depression, apathy
• Exploration: Concern about details, confusion, energy, new ideas, lack of focus
• Commitment: Cooperation, better focus, anticipation of next challenge

Learn more about managing change and discover how you perceive and react to change. Sign up for our workshop! CHANGE! A Roller Coaster Ride, Here we go again!

At this workshop you will:

• Take the Reaction - to - Change Inventory and find out your score on how you react to change
• Discuss RTC inventory results
• Identify strategies that assist YOU with managing change

U Technique Story- Be different! Stand out in others’ minds!

Want people to remember you? “Be different” suggests speaker Patrick O’Dooley. People remember the unusual better than the ordinary. O’Dooley sold photocopying machines for IBM. He wanted customers to remember him instead of his competitors. So he would introduce himself as “Patrick O’Dooley, Reproduction Specialist.” He got some funny looks, but he was remembered.
Mr. O’Dooley had to meet with the head of a Speakers Bureau. When the secretary asked when he could visit he replied, “I can be there tomorrow at 10:17.” The secretary paused and then said… “Okay, 10:17 tomorrow.” The next day Mr. O’Dooley arrived precisely at 10:17. As he entered her office she was looking at her watch. She said, “Thank goodness! Boy am I glad you are on time. I’ve been a nervous wreck all morning waiting to find out if you were really going to be here at 10:17.”
As they walked to her office, they passed little cubicles and all along the way people kept asking her, “Is that the 10:17 guy?”
Mr. O’Dooley stood out in her mind because he approached a common scheduling task a differently than all the other appointments she makes.

UTIP : To stand out in others’ minds do things a little differently than everyone else does them.

Unique Technique - Tap into the Power of YOU! Quote

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

Oh, The Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss

Source Note: Patrick O’Dooley, Flight Plan for Living: “The Art of Self Encouragement”
Source Note: Cynthia D. Scott and Dennis T. Jaffe, “Managing Organizational Change”