3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama

By David Emerald

This teaching story uses the groundbreaking 3 Vital Questions® approach for empowering leaders and teams to become collaborative, engaged, and resilient in the face of the rapid changes that mark today's increasingly complex, competitive environment. Working late at night, Lucas, a middle manager in a large organization, meets a custodian named Ted. The two strike up a friendship as Ted teaches Lucas three vital questions with the power to transform the disillusionment he is experiencing at work. Readers follow Lucas as he learns how to shift from feeling like a Victim to acting as a Creator in his career. With the wise guidance of Ted and Kasey, a senior manager, Lucas applies the three vital questions and begins transforming his workplace relationships, with exciting results. At home, Lucas and his wife Sarah discover how the questions can spark creative collaboration with each other and their two young children. From the author of the bestselling self-leadership title, The Power of TED*(*The Empowerment Dynamic) ushers in a new era of possibility for the world of work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Polaris Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9780996871860

David Emerald

David Emerald Womeldorff is a consultant, facilitator, executive coach, speaker and author. Writing under the pen name of David Emerald, he is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership. He is also co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA), which is committed to facilitating emergent leadership in an integral world. As director of the Center's Collective Leadership and Self Leadership practice areas, his focus is on supporting and facilitating individuals, teams, and organizations in making a conscious shift to leading and working from a vision-focused and passion-based orientation for their lives and livelihoods. David helps clients cultivate collaborative capabilities to create sustainable change and growth and to create powerful partnerships. He currently serves as an executive Coach and is on the faculty of the Executive Integral Leadership Program (IELP), an innovative program for Executive MBA students and business executives offered by the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business (Executive Education). David and his wife and business partner, Donna Zajonc, are faculty members of the International City and County Managers Association (ICMA) University. David's TED*™ framework has been selected to be a part of the University of Notre Dame's "Management and Leadership Certificate" e-learning program, as well as their EILP. He is a frequent guest presenter on The Empowerment Dynamic™, as well as his "Creating Powerful Partnerships: Seven Agreements for Accelerating Collaboration." David has consulted throughout the U.S. and internationally in a wide variety of industries. David has conducted thousands of one-on-one feedback, coaching and action planning sessions in his leadership, executive and organization development roles. He has facilitated groups in areas such as strategic visioning and action planning, cross-functional team development and managing change. David also has extensive experience in designing and leading educational programs, with a specialization in leadership development. Previously, David was Consulting Director of Bank One Corporation's Learning and Leadership Development, a corporate team of education and organization development professionals; Acting Director of Executive Education and Senior Development Consultant, managing and co-facilitating their highly-acclaimed Leadership Development Progra...