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.
Introducing the Special-Edition Build-Your-Own-Calendar.
Your Designs. Your Dates. And Now, Your Choice of Four Prints.
With our characteristically obnoxious sense of poor timing, Despair is pleased to unveil yet another permutation of our Build-Your-Own-Calendar- The Special Edition.
This 12-month calendar includes all the standard exciting features you’ve come to grudgingly admire in our Build-Your-Own-Calendars- but that’s not all. It also includes four premium-quality 8.5″ x 11.5″ Demotivator prints of your choosing- for only $5.00 more!
But WHY couldn’t we have introduced this version when we rolled out the prior one, since a lot of you already plopped down the money for a 12-month calendar and can’t justify buying another one just because there’s a compelling new model? I ask myself the same question every single time Steve Jobs opens his mouth… (The short answer is, as always, because your credit card has unlimited potential, even if you don’t.)
Too lazy to wrap your presents? Too cheap to buy a nice mailing box? We’ve got you covered! Pick up some of our stylish Calendar Gift Mailers by clicking here.
Hey, and speaking of companies with a history of being less-than-straight about release dates, guess what Despair DIDN’T release last month? That’s right- the latest Despair Video. All we have, a week after the supposed release date, is a preview, and only in Quicktime, no less!
“Self-Narratives”
Another delayed release from our vaunted Product Development group
People keep e-mailing annoyed inquiries about it to me by replying to the last Wailing List. (Like I’ve got some sort of inside scoop as the lowest-ranking employee of the only marginally respected Marketing Department?) All I know is that the Brahmins in Product Development keep telling the rest of us, “It’ll be out this month… For real this time.” Okay, sure- why not? (But if you guys don’t do it, maybe I’ll just shoot a video of a day in the life of an underappreciated marketing peon at Despair, and drop that beets right on YouTube… Don’t push me, guys… You know I’ll do it… )
Now Playing in Despair Video:
Episode 3: Addressing Employee Complaints
In our latest installment of Despair Videos, Dr. E.L. Kersten provides executives and managers with a shockingly effective strategy for responding to the complaints of their subordinates.
(And if that alone isn’t enough to compel you to watch it, maybe knowing that there is a coupon code worth $5 included in the video somewhere might help.)
