Books by Matthew Rawlins
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The Lottery: A Question Can Change a Life
How do people succeed? Simply put, they know how to ask the right questions.
Relationships and businesses flourish when people know how to ask the right questions. Although it sounds simple enough, few of us have been taught the fine art of asking questions.
A better question uncovers a better answer. And, the right questions will release creativity, open the door to discovery and bring clarity to challenges.
In this powerful story, The Lottery: How a Question Can Change a Life, you will discover that asking the right question at the right time and in the right way can change your life. Author Matt Rawlins is an international communicator, gifted in helping individuals and groups move.
The Green Bench: A Dialogue About Leadership and Change
Take a seat and learn the secrets of business management - and life!
It was a chance meeting. A retired teacher stopping for a breather while out for his walk, and an overstressed young executive escaping from office chaos and politics. There on a green park bench they begin a dialogue that dramatically changes the young man's view of leadership. With this stranger he feels the freedom to ask the really important questions: Why must I pretend to know everything? Why can't I see the real problems, not just the surface issues? Is change the beginning or the end for me? How can I keep from getting stuck? And what can I do to motivate people to learn and change?
If you've asked these same questions, listen in. The old teacher's stories give stunning insights into the chaotic, constantly changing world of 21st century business management. After a while on The Green Bench, you too will learn how to learn, how to lead, how to take risks and how to maintain a sense of peace and stability through it all.
So, go ahead, have a seat.
Finding the Pain in Your @ss-umption
What do these three areas have in common?
Dealing with change
Creativity
Difficult Conversations
At first glance they all have an aspect of conflict in them. In looking a bit deeper into them we can discover that they are all dealing with different assumptions people make and often don’t even know it.
If we can learn to deal and work with those often hidden assumptions, then we can go a long way towards being successful in dealing with these areas. This is often hard work but is key to being a successful leader in the world we all live in.
Read this brilliant leadership tale about Boomer and Scooter, who discover in the game, ‘Pin the Tail on the Donkey’ that recognizing and learning to deal with @ssumptions can be a life changing experience.
There's an Elephant in the Room
What would happen if you had an elephant in your team or organization? Its presence is felt by all, yet no one is willing to talk about it.
The trouble is if you can’t talk about something, you can’t change it. If you can’t change something, you miss out on new opportunities, creativity, achievements, beauty and success.
Explore through this engaging story, with its delightful illustrations, what happens to an organization when its people are silenced and elephants are free to roam wherever they want.
But then what would happen if you talked about the secrets everyone knows?
Discover what happens when 4 misfits in a dying company choose the courage to be honest with each other.