While most employees evidence a startling lack of intellectual curiosity or creativity, they prove profoundly imaginative when estimating their relative usefulness or when postulating visions of their own probable futures. In short, they are prisoners of their own optimistic delusions. In this online video, Dr. Kersten offers several conversational techniques which can be used to demolish those delusions and liberate employees from the torment of their unrealistic expectations.
In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten provides executives and managers with a shockingly effective strategy for responding to the complaints of their subordinates.
Face-to-face interaction of executives with their employee subordinates is an unfortunate necessity in most organizations. However distasteful, such exchanges do provide fertile opportunities for the seeding of Radical Demotivation™ in the employee psyche. In this segment, Dr. E.L. Kersten explains one of several disconfirmational communication tactics which can be helpful in disabusing employees of their narcissistic delusions of parity.
Dr. E.L. Kersten provides a helpful overview of storytelling techniques that can aid executives and managers in the creation of a Radically Demotivating work environment.