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How full is Your Bucket
1. How full is Your Bucket?
Book By;
Tom Rath & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.
Presentation By; Lisa E. Grant
We all have an imaginary bucket.
How full is yours?
4. 5 Strategies to Having a Full Bucket
are?
• 1. Prevent bucket dipping. Try to be realistically positive.
• 2. Shine a light on what is right. When there’s gossip, change
the subject. Don’t get pulled into it.
• 3. Make best friends. Show others your respect them.
• 4. Give unexpectedly. Offer assistance to a coworker.
• 5. Reverse the Golden rule. Do unto others as they would
have you do unto them.
5. “Ken & His Secret Weapon”
• He is the C.E.O. of a major corporation.
• Ken stops to talk with all of his employees.
From upper management to Laborers.
• Why? Ken does this to let all of his employees know that they are
important.
• Ken believes that simply saying, “I hear you have been doing well
here” to “congratulations on the birth of your child”, let’s the
employees know that he really does care about them.
• Ken’s reward- Creating a Positive Energy that moves through his
network.
• Thus his employees are more productive.
6. Katie Couric & Brian Bennett
Interview
• During this interview, Katie Couric asked Brian
Bennett, who had grown up in an abusive
home & struggled in school, how he became
so successful?
• He replied, “The defining moment was when a
grade school teacher simply told me that she
cared & believed in me, (Rath & Clifton,
2004)”.
7. An Example of a Bad Boss.
• We have all at some point in our
lives had bosses or associates
that treated us badly.
• From completely ignoring us to
yelling at us in front of others .
9. Another Example is;
• People who walk through the office/workplace with glazed
facial expressions.
They simply don’t care anymore.
• Or there are those people that create drama in the workplace
by spreading Gossip.
← Water-
Cooler Gossip.
10. U.S. Dept of Labor say’s
• “That the number one reason why people
leave their jobs is because they don’t feel
appreciated, (Rath & Clifton, page 31)”.
They are completely
Drained.
Their Bucket’s are
Empty.
11. The U.S. Dept of Labor also say’s
• Having this type of boss or associate
can lead to health problems such
as high blood pressure.
• George Fieldsman's study.
People who don’t like their
boss have a greater chance to
experience heart disease
and/or stroke.
12. Employees Who Bucket Dip
• Glazed/Negative Facial expression.
• They have bad attitudes.
• They are spread Gossip. “Counter productive
gossip and its
contagious effects
drains people’s time,
energy, destroys
morale & stifles
creativity,
(Monster.com)”
13. In the United States,
Negative/Disengaged Employees
• This number is at 22 Million.
The Cost of Bucket Dipping
• Negative bucket dipping
cost about $250 Million
dollars a year in productivity
alone.
14. Relevance to This Course
• Conclusion- I thought that this book, “How
Full is Your Bucket”, was very helpful in trying
to maintain a positive, yet realistic attitude.
Thank you.
