Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Rabbi Daniel Lapin: Program Outlines

Enlisting Commitment, Not Just Compliance
How to use covenants, not just contracts.

Engendering employee loyalty
Living to work vs. working to live
Motivating by pleasure and gain, rather than pressure and pain
The infinity principle
Sharing the secrets of Partnership Power

Communicating Effectively
The pen may be mightier than the sward, but the voice is greater than both.

Communicating your way to collaboration, consensus and commitment
Deriving profit and value from company mission statements
Listening and hearing, particularly when news is bad
Sharing knowledge - good for both company and career
Avoiding the perils of gossip, while benefitting from the Cascadia CrossLink

Generating Enthusiasm for Teamwork
A team's potential is the product of its parts, not the sum.

Drawing people together for pleasure and profit
Teaching the solo drummer to play in the orchestra
How goals can convert even mobs into teams
How teamwork energizes families, small companies and large corporations
Blending competivness into cooperation

Conflict Management
Harnessing the energy in conflict to avoid disaster.

Negotiation - get what you need, don't settle for what you can get
Exploring the creativity inherent in conflict
Establishing the moral legitimacy of your position
Talking too much, and other ways of being your worst enemy
The role of emotions in transactions and negotiations

Managing Anger and Stress
Twin tools of tyranny - not to be inflicted, indulged or endured.

Time management - priority vs. hierarchy
What does "fair" really mean
Eradicating envy and resentment
Choosing your own responses
Banishing anger by eliminating arrogance, and vice versa
Talking too much, and other ways of being your worst enemy

Change and Diversity
Finding safe opportunities in contrast and change.

Discovering unity through diversity
Change as an antidote to stagnation
Superficial diversity vs. diversity of ideas
Change, movement, television, and human nature
Unlocking the economic potential of change and diversity

Leadership
Acquiring the skills of true leadership.

Motivating yourself, then others
You are your most important employee
Bouncing back from defeat
Combating the psychological obstacles to delegating
To trust or not to trust

Erasing Limits by "Fence Leaping"
Acquiring the skills of true leadership.

Motivating yourself, then others
You are your most important employee
Bouncing back from defeat
Combating the psychological obstacles to delegating
To trust or not to trust

Ethical Capitalism
Companies need everybody's help to steer clear of trouble .

Gender and race issues
Differing views on morality and ethics
Federal sentencing guidelines
Environmental issues
Internal monitoring

Compete and Win
Competitiveness is the challenge; winning is the response.

Nice guys do win
Generating a sense of urgency
Developing genial assertiveness
Your scruples as an asset, rather than a handicap
Some situations are win/lose

The Culture of Money
Really understanding the creative fuel of commerce.

How trust and faith led us from the barter system to the cash system
Money as a certificate of performance
The symbolism of the dollar and its world roll
Understanding and capitalizing on money's magnetism
The myth that some people are poor because others are rich

Making Work Joyful
Replacing the monotony of routine with the thrill of higher purpose.

Working for a cause, not a living - a calling, not a job
Developing and instilling corporate core believes
Integrating loyalty to employer, career and self
Benefitting from human nature's craving for the infinite
Generating and maintaining optimism through gratitude

The Nobility of Business
Commercial enterprise bestows good on through its creative glory.

Why you'll never succeed at work you find morally contemptible
Maximizing the potential of every participant
The pursuit of ultimate efficiency
Becoming a creator instead of a shuffler or administrator
Creating wealth by suppressing human nature's dark side