Wheat Ridge, Colo.—The Automotive Service Association of Colorado (ASA-CO) hosted a professional development seminar on Aug. 18 titled “Fearless Business…Thriving in Times of Accelerated Change.” The seminar was presented by Randy Ferguson.
Donny Seyfer, chairman of ASA-CO introduced Ferguson as the founder and president of “The Love, Courage, and Achievement Project” and author of Outrageously Fulfilling Relationships.
With more than 25 years of experience as a facilitator, Ferguson has led more than 1,000 seminars helping participants find a higher possibility in their personal and professional lives.
ASA-CO member attendees were offered practical and immediate tools to help them maintain forward-focused energy and entertained the audience with his easygoing manner, humor, and stories.
Ferguson told attendees that you can transform your dreams into reality by mastering your own attitude. He spoke of using emotional intelligence to shift your energy away from negative drains.
One simple tool is to consciously shift to forward-focused questions when dealing with others. He used examples such as asking, “What is working well, and how can we expand that?” as opposed to, “What’s not working?” The use of these forward-focused questions may allow for a higher-quality impact in all of your relationships, he said.
Ferguson also told how each person has core issues and that unresolved core issues can cause distress. He suggested that if you can discover your own core issues and release their grip, you will be able to “respond” instead of “react” in situations that are now triggered negatively by them.
He defined a core issue as “a fundamental judgment made against you at a time of hurt, typically in childhood.” An example might be someone calling you “stupid.” Often you might try to overcome this type of core issue with overachievement, which is not a bad thing, he said, but it can cause you to overreact in situations. No amount of success can help people overcome what they think of themselves, he said.
His philosophies hit home with the attendees.
In the open discussion following the lecture, several expressed their belief that minor changes in their attitude and insight into their core issues could make a major difference in their professional and personal relationships. Several attendees stayed to request books and further training from Ferguson.
ASA-CO will host their next professional development seminar Oct. 3 at Cherry Creek High School in Englewood. The seminar is titled “Keys 2009: Business Process re-Engineering” with Colby Foster, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Please contact ASA-CO Executive Director Kari Foster at kfoster@ASAcolorado.org for more information.
