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Collaborating in the Workplace series featured on Wise@Work app
One of the most desirable skills in the professional world is the ability to collaborate well with any team. In this series I created for the Wise@Work app by Wisdom Labs, I share my methodology, utilizing research on what makes for successful, productive teams as well as Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Use this practical series to develop crucial skills that help you connect with yourself and others in ways that foster superior collaboration. Check out the series by downloading the Wise@Work app: https://hubs.ly/H0mTg0v0
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Venture Stories podcast features Ike Lasater
Venture Stories host Erik Torenberg recently interviewed Ike about his "story," as well as perspectives on NVC.
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New Book:Collaborating in the Workplace: A Guide for Building Better Teams
Published by PuddleDancer Press, Ike’s newest book, Collaborating in the Workplace: A Guide to Building Better Teams provides practical, step-by-step exercises that you can use to develop crucial skills to help you and your teammates connect with each other in ways that foster superior collaboration. “A wonderfully practical guide for building teams and getting the best out of everyone. If you are looking to build collaboration in the workplace, start by reading this book!” —Daniel L. Shapiro, PhD., author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable “Comprehensive, focused, and immediately useful, Collaborating in the Workplace is a highly practical synthesis of current research on what makes an effective team. Our work teams found Lasater’s…
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“How to navigate intergenerational land and wealth transfers without your family being torn apart” The Cattleman Magazine
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s The Cattleman Magazine recently published my article “How to navigate intergenerational land and wealth transfers without your family being torn apart.” Although it is targeted toward ranching families, the information in this piece is applicable to all families. When my grandfather, Edward Cunningham Lasater, died in 1930, his South Texas ranch was in financial trouble. For years, he had struggled against a mountain of debt incurred to purchase land that stretched from southeast of Falfurrias, northwest towards Realitos. And yet despite his efforts, at the time of his death, the estate was still burdened, as the country segued from an agricultural depression during the 1920s…
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“It Pays To Listen,” Smart Manager Magazine
I’m pleased to share “It Pays To Listen,” which I wrote for the February issue of Indias’s Smart Manager Magazine. Teams are where business is done. Whether it is a team within one department, an interdepartmental group, or a team that includes outside parties such as contractors or clients, it is people working together that creates success. Yet, not all teams are effective. Some groups seem to gel and work together effortlessly, whereas for others, strife and struggle seem to be the norm, with work progressing in fits and starts. Why the difference? What makes an effective team, and more important, how can you and your employees learn to create teams…
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Team Work In Action
I have spent the last 15 years offering workshops to the general public. These workshops have been based upon the psychological and brain science research of the last several decades, as well as the insights developed and articulated by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, which he called “Nonviolent Communication (NVC).” During this time my focus was to develop, with John Kinyon, eleven maps for navigating conflict, and the nine skills necessary to use these maps (see www.MediateYourLife.com). More recently, I have realized how important it is to introduce the understandings articulated by Marshall Rosenberg into the business community. This is because, in our modern times, businesses and organizations are influential agents of…
