Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships Audiobook (Free)

A compendium of straightforward techniques on how best to accentuate the positive and redirect the detrimental, increasing productivity at work and in the home.

What do your people at the job and your spouse and kids in the home have as a common factor having a five-ton killer whale?

Probably a whole lot more than you imagine, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. Within this moving and inspirational fresh book, Blanchard points out that both whales and about Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Romantic relationships people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He displays how using the methods of animal trainers — specifically those in charge of the killer whales of SeaWorld — can supercharge your efficiency at work and at home.

When gruff business supervisor and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, being among the most feared predators in the sea, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Afterwards, talking to the chief trainer, he discovered their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting detrimental behavior — which make these amazing performances possible. Kingsley took a difficult look at his personal often accusatory administration style and regarded how a few of his shortcomings being a supervisor, spouse, and dad actually diminish trust and harm relationships. He started to start to see the difference between ‘GOTcha’ (getting people doing things wrong) and ‘Whale Done!’ (getting people doing items right).

In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard displays how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the harmful the best tools to increase productivity, rather than creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are amazingly easy to master and can be employed equally well in the home, allowing readers to become better parents and even more committed spouses in their more happy and more lucrative personal lives.