What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

* How disengagement has an enormous cost to it
* Why vulnerability and authenticity are important
* Don't tell - ASK

Related Links and Resources:
On my website www.blainebartlett.com, that landing page or home page has got a free book, 'Tapping into the Soul of Business'. It's an eBook, it's an easy read of around 35-40 pages. So, my Mastermind program is a 52-week long program but what I wanted to do is to make two months of it available in written form, it's not the mastermind itself. The book that is associated with that, you can get two chapters on it that actually speaks to two months’ worth of practices. And you can find that on www.learn.blainebartlett.com/lmmgift
Summary:
Blaine Bartlett is President and CEO of Avatar Resources. He founded the firm in 1987 and since then has led the company in developing a footprint that is truly global.
His firm develops and delivers high-impact solutions for every type of organization, anywhere in the world. They have established and maintain an impressive global network of specialized affiliates with one aim in mind – to help businesses achieve their dreams, one employee at a time.
Here are the highlights of this episode:
1:24 Blaine’s ideal Client: I love that question; because for me, it's actually morph. It started out with large enterprises. I'd work with some of the largest organizations, me and my company, some of the largest companies in the planet. Mostly that focus has been initially on 'how do you implement a strategic client' or 'strategic initiatives'. Big shifts, big directional juxtaposition from what it was. How do you get people on board? Kind of like rolling up against the queen Mary and kicking it in a bow saying 'turn, turn, turn'. It's an interesting preposition. Where we at today, is really focusing more on the small to midsize companies. My ideal is an organization that've gotten right around between 100-300 people. And I say that selfishly because I can see movement at that point in time, with that size of an organization. And there's a reason for that; 80% of the world's economy is driven by these small to midsize companies. And the big enterprise are the ones getting all the press. But the ones that really make a difference are these small to midsize organization. And having them actually percolating well (running well) is what I like to be working towards and what I'm actually directing my company to work closely today.
3:03 Problem Blaine helps solve: I will reference Gallop on this. Gallop is an annual poll employee engagement and the needle has not move for at least 25 years of I'm aware of that poll being done. And what is shows consistently which is globally is that between 85-87% of employees worldwide are disengaged from the work that they're doing. Now, they show up, they go through the motions, but that disengagement has had an enormous cost to it. And this is one of the reasons why small start-up organizations (5-20 people) that's not so much an issue, but you start getting into a 'larger than a 2 pizza' organization, I'm quoting Jeff Bezos here. People started to become disconnected from the organization's mission, from its founding purpose and soul. That problem has a cost, and that's what we solve; that's actually what we work towards making possible is high-level of 'emotional engagement' in what the organization is trying to make it happen.
4:30Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Blaine: Symptomatically, what tends to appear is people waiting to be told what to do. That's probably the most glaring example. People are highly creative, they're innovative. The human spirit seeks to express and it seeks to grow but that doesn't se...