Pickle Pledge

by Joe Tye

This is all about eliminating negative dysfunctional attitudes within the workplace. It creates an acknowledgement of the problem, the cost of the problem and then creates fun ways to combat it and eliminate it. While it refers to Healthcare in the title, the principles apply to all types of businesses. Hopefully you will NOT see yourself among the pages of this wonderful and enlightening book.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 28, 2016

About the author

oe is Founder and Head Coach of Values Coach (www.ValuesCoach.com), which provides training and consulting on values and culture for hospital and corporate clients. He is a best-selling author and frequent speaker for organization and association events. His books include All Hands on Deck: 8 Essential Lessons for Building a Culture of Ownership and The Florence Prescription: From Accountability to Ownership.

Joe also created the 60-module course on The Twelve Core Action Values, the world’s most comprehensive course on personal values and values-based life and leadership skills. Through the Values Collaborative, more than 500 people in more than 80 different organizations (as of this writing) have become Certified Values Coach Trainers (CVC-T) who share the course with coworkers (and in some cases reach out to a larger community). Paul Utemark, CEO of Fillmore County Hospital, said that as a result of this training: “I got a whole new team and didn’t have to change any of the people.”

Joe is an engaging and entertaining speaker who gives more than 100 presentations per year. He consistently earns “best of show” evaluation ratings and has many repeat clients. You can check Joe’s speaking topics and calendar and view the complete video of his keynote presentation for the annual leadership conference of Select Medical, America’s premier provider of rehabilitation services, at: http://www.valuescoach.com/speaking.

Reviews

[Jim Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Pickle Pledge title would indicate that it is for “healthcare” because it reads, “Creating a More Positive Healthcare Culture – One Attitude at a time. Tye and Dent in fact have identified a cultural problem that exists in most if not all businesses, not just the healthcare field. As a REALTOR and a Designated REALTOR Broker for more than 33 years, I can attest that negative attitudes within the real estate industry are very prevalent. As a retired member of the U. S. Coast Guard, I can attest that negative attitudes existed onboard Coast Guard units as well. More importantly, instead of just complaining (writing about) the existence of negative attitude within the workplace, Tye and Dent provide you with not only the why such attitudes are extremely dangerous, financially costly, and dangerous but more importantly, how to fix such negative attitudes – “one attitude at a time” as suggested in the title of the book. DON’T LET THE TITLE FOOL YOU. This book applies to ALL businesses of ALL types. I cannot think of a business that I have been affiliated with and more importantly businesses I frequent that can’t learn something very valuable about their own businesses that will ultimately make them better places at which to work and thusly far more profitable all at the same time. But..this book not only applies to helping businesses become better places at which to work and become more profitable, it also applies to HOMES and FAMILIES. Having a positive attitude begins with waking up and choosing to have a positive attitude. Taking the Pickle Pledge at home is just as critical as taking it at work because your happiness in both places is critical to having a happy life.

Who should read this book? That one is easy – EVERYONE!