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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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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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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…
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Collaboration Through Connection
Collaboration grows out of connection. Because connection (and thus collaboration) is ephemeral and cannot be coerced, we get lost when we think we can get what we want in the world by forcing others to bend to our will. Therefore, whether we are parents, leaders in our community, team members at work, political or military leaders and actors, attempting to get what we want by imposing our will does not give us the results we want in the end. By using force, we perhaps can get someone to do what we want them to do, but we can’t get them to do it for the reasons we want them to…
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An Operating Manual for Our Time
We are not given an operating manual for our lives when we are born. This was strongly brought home to me recently as I held my two newest grandchildren, born within two weeks of each other. Aside from the basics of filling their diapers, nursing, crying and sleeping, they have to learn everything else. There are many unconscious processes that must mature as the child grows into adulthood. As biological beings, all of these processes have evolved since the first spark of life. We have not only been evolving as biological beings, but also as thinking idea machines. Richard Dawkins used the term “memes” to refer to these bits of…
