The Dream Manager (extra book)

I found my next job!  It is described in this great leadership/management book called, The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.  Kelly, a coach/motivational speaker/consultant provides a turn-around story of a fictitious janitorial company in mid-America.  The problem at the company is that the turnover rate of employees for this 400+ staff is about 400% annually!  One of the managers who works directly for the owner comes up with an idea to curb the problem, let’s do a survey!  So they do, what they find as the number #1 issue from the employees is their need for transportation to get to work and back home.  When he convinces the boss to expend the monies to do so, they see a huge reduction in staff departures.  After this windfall in savings (not having to re-train staff, hire new ones, etc.), the manager has a second response from their surveys…. they have other things they want, not necessarily more money, but desires like a home, car, vacation, education for their kids…. i.e., dreams.  After some thinking, he suggests to his boss, let’s hire a “dream manager” someone who can assist staff in financial planning and helping people to dream, using their work as a starting point for something else.  Of course what happens after they hire the dream manager is the absolute transformation of a company!  And so it goes.  There are many more details of how it happens with the dream manager, but the author is using the story as a means to say, we all should be having dream and all managers have a responsibility to help employees to dream…  what a great story!  I can see why Mr. Kelly is successful.  He lays out a process that people should be engaging for the twelve areas of their life: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual, Psychological, Material, Professional, Financial, Creative, Adventure, Legacy, and Character.  His model is very similar to the model I use as a life coach.  I would strongly encourage anyone at all to study this book.  It is a really quick read.  I finished it while lying on the boat this afternoon.   Thanks to the person who suggested I read it from BCC.  I will be using it with my AnBryce students and other NYU students this year.