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Making It Happen
or
Making It Worse?

How to Motivate People in Tough Times

It’s no secret today’s economic emergency is stressing people out, the
secret is *how* employees fears can make matters worse and kill vital
initiatives

The banking crisis, higher food prices, the loss of 401K savings, and the
fear of loosing one’s job are just some of the stressors which are shaking
employees to their core—undermining morale.

When people believe they can’t win, all sorts of distrustful thoughts and
feelings spiral out of control; fear turns to anger, anger to frustration,
and frustration to exasperation.

Left unattended, employees will likely engage in a “watercooler conspiracy”
creating an organizational reality that determines the difference between
survival and success.

*The Watercooler Conspiracy*

Call it an accidental conspiracy. Compelling new research shows employees
are often subconsciously governed by a code that renders them apathetic to
company vision and disempowered to execute their roles.

Through the sharing of emotions, opinions and experiences - watercooler
conversation - exasperation quickly becomes encoded into an organization’s
culture. Subtle patterns of unconscious, unacknowledged, and unspoken
inaction derail initiatives. Employees become shackled in their ability to
align attitude and activity with company vision. Exasperation becomes the
expectation.

Exasperated employees can become entrenched and defensive. When a visionary
attempts to motivate them, the employees' hair-trigger sensitivity to change
can release quiet, inadvertent stagnation; becoming engaged and invested in
maintaining the status quo.

Achieving vision-based outcomes in any organization must then begin by
cracking the subconscious code of exasperation - the "watercooler
conspiracy" governing company culture - and replacing it with a conscious
code of execution. With new research, profiles and illustrations from his
twenty years of corporate motivation, John Foppe shows how.

*John Foppe is an expert on the human condition
*
Corporate leaders, managers and entrepreneurs find John’s work equally
creditable and compelling because he was born without arms. He understands
firsthand the difficult gaps between envisioning an outcome and achieving
it.

*The Bottom Line*

The upside of outcome-driven organizations speaks for itself: stock growth
three times the rate of competitors, profits two times that of the S&P 500
as a group, and investment earnings 17.69% higher than the S&P overall.

Don’t make matters worse—give us a call. John will help your people make it
happen—even in tough times.

His biography available at:-

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Born without arms, John Foppe has had to break down and re-think every aspect of day-to-day life. He learned that the inability to do something didn’t rest on the lack of resources or vision. Instead, it has more to do with one’s subconscious perception to meeting a challenge head on.

In the field as part of his master’s degree in social work, John saw this scenario play out repeatedly. To his surprise, he discovered that many people subconsciously substitute personal improvement with systems to support their perceived limitations. As a speaker, John also witnessed this resistant mindset operate in all sort of companies. He repeatedly heard leaders complain about how difficult is to motivate their people.

John has addressed this common performance challenge through years of research, clinical study and field testing, which ultimately led to the discovery of the primary cause of failed vision execution. In light of this important, personally-significant discovery, he has developed a variety of solutions to help individuals and leaders overcome their exasperation and translate their visions into outcomes.

His compelling story and methods caught the attention of the legendary Zig Ziglar, who broke his long-standing rule of promoting from within and recruited and mentored John. He is the author of What’s Your Excuse?, which has been translated into six foreign languages. John is a contributing editor for “U.S. Business Review”. In 2007, he wrote a bimonthly column entitled, The Vision Thing, focusing on how to maintain momentum when translating visions into outcomes.

John’s insights on how the biggest vision can be derailed by the smallest bit of reticence are now being used to orchestrate the missions of visionaries and change agents around the world. Since 1995, John’s work has taken him to 15 different countries, pro-football organizations like the Miami Dolphins, and to Fortune 500 clients such as Boeing, GE, and State Farm. Moreover, he has worked with international companies such as Fortis, ST Microelectronics, and UniCredit.
Recently, John put his feet where his heart is by taking on the role of Executive Director for Community Link, a non-for-profit organization, headquartered in Breese, Illinois, that helps adults and children with developmental disabilities. John oversees a six million dollar operating budget and manages more than 130 employees who provide a full array of services, including employment, job training, and housing, to more than 400 individuals. He will continue to speak to other companies on a limited and selected basis.