The Workplace Terrorist: A Passport to Keep You from Becoming a Workplace Hostage. Take the Sims’ Flight

By Lucy Sims

Terrorism is a serious thing at any time. For many people, its something they face every day. Try thinking of dealing with negative people as dealing with a terrorist. As over exaggerated as this may sound, the adverse effects a negative person can have on our lives can cause lifelong damage.

In The Workplace Terrorist: The Passport to Keep You from Becoming a Workplace Hostage. Take the Sims Flight, author Lucy Sims helps you find excitement in your job and your life. Sims took the experiences of catastrophic events and using the metaphor of an airplane flight, developed a motivational tool to show what can happen if we allow terrorism in our workplaces or lives. We dont think much about how we are affected by the negative actions of others and how this is a type of terrorism. The highs and lows of an airplane flight bring home how frightening these experiences can be.

No matter what you do in life, the principles found in The Workplace Terrorist: The Passport to Keep You from Becoming a Workplace Hostage. Take the Sims Flight can be applied. Think of terrorism as something to get rid of and something to never be around you, your workplace, your home, and so on. How you view negative people will change when you understand how they can affect your everyday life. And perhaps most important, youll learn how not to be a workplace terrorist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469753492

Lucy Sims

Lucy Sims is founder and president of SIMS’ FLIGHT, a personnel development company that shows people how to find the positive in their jobs. She uses her background in human resources and her roles as a mother, daughter, sister, and wife to help people enjoy their jobs and their coworkers.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Recognizing Terror on the Job

Security

Start Today

Implement Positive Changes Today

Measure Your Success Daily

SEARCH YOURSELF

Forgive and Forget

Life Is Large, So Live It!

Imagine: Get in the Vision

Grow Every Day

Help Someone Else

Trust and Believe That You Can

The Passport to Sims’ Flight

The In-Flight Movie

Landing

Hostage

I

dedicate this to my dear family and friends.

To R. Dean Williams, and to Charles and Marie Johnson, I want to really thank you for your instant approval of my desire to move forward with my vision of Sims’ Flight. You were encouraging and dedicated from the start. You took a chance and made a large investment in the entire project.

To Linda Hill, Ruthana Swain, Patricia Dozier, Yasmin Stanley, Eartha Loyal, Jeff Fitzgerald, Estelle and Paulette Carter, Annie Sims, Lewis Alexander, Nellie Johnson, and my parents, Alfred and Mary Hill, thank you for your support. This project would have been harder for me to get going without your initial investments of love and support.

Foreword

Lucy Sims served as principal in a private church school for several years. During these years, I was one of her teachers. I was always impressed by the dynamic approach she employed to convey her message. In this fascinating book, Ms. Sims shows you step by step how you can overcome obstacles on your job, develop good relationships with your coworkers, and be satisfied with whatever position you hold. If you are not satisfied, she also makes it clear how you can take simple steps to advance to the next level. This easy-to-read book is both rich and rewarding.

Her vast experience in life has granted her much expertise on the topic of the workplace terrorist.

Ola Watts

Educator

This book, written like an airplane flight plan, is not only interesting, but also an excellent way of initiating an introspective analysis of one’s self. I first met Lucy Sims over twenty-five years ago, and I know how deeply dedicated she is to working with people to help them improve in all areas of their lives, including their workplace.

The Workplace Terrorist is written for you, if you are feeling the pressure of an unhappy workplace or dissatisfaction with life in general. This book explores your attitude, your approach to your employer, and the changes that will lead to a happier, more exciting job relationship and life in general.

As a corporate manager and secretary, I have employed some of these same suggestions in my life, and for over thirty years, I have definitely seen the need for the material as outlined in this book.

If you take this passport on a Sims’ Flight, you will not only improve your job and workplace environment, but also become a better person, a more confident person, a more goal-oriented person, and a happier person.

Jenna Munford

Corporate Manager and Secretary

Preface

A fter careful meditation, and consideration, I’ve decided to express my soul purpose for using the metaphor I’ve chosen in this book. To begin with, it certainly was never intended to offend anyone who perhaps have lost someone or was hurt personally as a result of any terrorist attack in the United States or abroad. However, I do believe that the definition of the word terror allows it to be used in many areas of our life and the workplace terrorist is just another form of terrorism. Although I am walking on very sensitive grounds, I felt that it was necessary to use this strong word to illustrate just how I believe an individual’s behavior