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Whale Done!

The Power of Positive Relationships

By: Kenneth Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins,Jim Ballard

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Whale Done!

The Power of Positive Relationships

By: Kenneth Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins,Jim Ballard

A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home. What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale? Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home. When gruff business manager and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learned their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting negative behavior -- all of which make these extraordinary performances possible. Kingsley took a hard look at his own often accusatory management style and recognized how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father actually diminish trust and damage relationships. He began to see the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong) and "Whale Done!" (catching people doing things right). In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful personal lives.

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The Whale Done School

Transforming a School’S Culture by Catching Students Doing Things Right

By: James Ballard,Cindy Zurchin,Thad Lacinak

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The Whale Done School

Transforming a School’S Culture by Catching Students Doing Things Right

By: James Ballard,Cindy Zurchin,Thad Lacinak

THE WHALE DONE SCHOOL is the third in the Whale Done! series, focusing the proven power of positive attention on the process of educating children. Based on an actual school-turnaround story, the fable demonstrates how students' behavior and academic performance improves dramatically when teachers systematically employ the science of training killer whales -- i.e., building trust, giving lots of attention to what their students do right, and redirecting wrong behavior to positive outcomes.

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Whale Done Parenting

How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids

By: Ken Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins

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Whale Done Parenting

How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids

By: Ken Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Whale Done! offer five simple and effective principles for coping with any parenting challenge. Most parents feel frustrated with their children from time to time, but killer whale trainer-in-training Amy Sheldrake has a unique perspective. She marvels at the complex behaviors her superiors are able to coax out of these enormous beasts, while she and her husband struggle to make their beloved—and much smaller—son Josh obey what seem like the simplest rules. What does training killer whales have to do with raising children? As this engrossing and unique parenting fable shows, more than you’d think. In their New York Times bestseller Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard and his coauthors—including two veteran marine mammal trainers—showed how positive training concepts used at places like SeaWorld could be adapted to the workplace. In this new book they apply these same principles to parenting. Once Amy and Matt get the hang of the five Whale Done principles, they see a dramatic difference in overcoming challenges like following bedtime routines, dealing with tantrums, introducing new foods, sharing, avoiding overuse of the word no, learning to care for a pet, and instituting time-outs. Whale Done is much more than a set of techniques; it is a way of looking at people and seeing the best that is in them. Great leaders, saints, and sages have developed this skill. Since most of us are less advanced than those paragons, this book can serve as a guide for how to bring out the best in our children.

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The Whale Done School

Transforming a School’S Culture by Catching Students Doing Things Right

By: James Ballard,Cindy Zurchin,Thad Lacinak

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Transforming a School’S Culture by Catching Students Doing Things Right

By: James Ballard,Cindy Zurchin,Thad Lacinak

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Whale Done Parenting

How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids

By: Ken Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins

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How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids

By: Ken Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins

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Whale Done!

The Power of Positive Relationships

By: Kenneth Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins,Jim Ballard

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The Power of Positive Relationships

By: Kenneth Blanchard,Thad Lacinak,Chuck Tompkins,Jim Ballard

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