What creates stress in your workday? What prevents you from getting things done? If you answered managing people problems, this is the podcast for you! The Work With Me podcast uses the 3D Relationships tool from IFI Training to help you develop skills to successfully navigate working with people from all different backgrounds. Join us for a roundtable discussion to help you gain actionable insights to get your work done with others!
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Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is an independent 501c(3) non-profit organization research, dedicated to fostering -- within Illinois -- an environment where families can flourish.
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Frequently project plans can be thrown off by people problems. How do you plan for people problems and use your team's experience to respond to those people problems? We discuss all that and more as we tackle Oceans' Eleven (2001) (*spoiler warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-managing-projects/ The best things in life are meant t…
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How to build teams to greatness, especially when they already have rivalry and bias, requires an understanding of defining experiences and how to work with sometimes difficult, prickly personalities. We talk about how Herb Brooks, Craig Patrick, and the team built a team that overcame all odds as we discuss the 2004 classic, Miracle (*spoilers ahea…
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There are some people who just don't seem to want to work within a community. We talk about how to work with those people and others to form a community through being yourself; building relationships of acceptance, respect, and trust; and understanding needs as we discuss A Man Called Otto (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working…
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Employees often bring personal challenges to work. We dive into 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as we discuss: People Problem #1: Working With Self-Doubt Expectations Values Mentoring People Problem #2: Working With Grief People Problem #3: Working With Bad Influences *Contains Spoilers* https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-self-do…
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Bias can be a natural challenge for individuals. We focus on the following people problems: Working with bias (against values, experience and personality) Working with personality conflict (pride and logic vs. emotion) Managing a team that is full of different biases and personality conflicts (using purpose and finding key roles) We also touch on e…
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How do you work with people who have wronged you ("A-holes") Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 1) give us plenty to talk about how as we discuss how to use 3D Relationships to understand others, work around scars, recognize building blocks, and work to forgive others. (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-a-holes/ The best th…
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In this episode of the Work With Me podcast, we talk about why not everyone wants to develop relationships, how can we learn to value others, and how you get others to be all in (and "zero out") for a cause as we discuss Ready Player One. (*Spoilers*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-clans/ The best things in life are meant to be shared…
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Workplace emergencies can come out of nowhere and create a need to navigate expertise (and sometimes niche expertise), competition, and who to listen to in order to find solutions. We dive into Thirteen Lives (2022) to discuss the dramatized events of the Thai Cave Rescue. (*Spoiler Alert*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-emergencies/ …
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How do get a diverse group of other people on your side? We talk about quiet quitting, combatting turnover, and building leaders when we talk about Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) (*Spoilers Ahead*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/get-others-on-your-side/ The best things in life are meant to be shared! Our podcast is available on all great podcasting …
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While it shouldn't happen at work, some people don't know how not to bully. We address how bullying occurs in the workplace, resilience, responding ethically, and resolving conflicting values as we discuss Matilda the Musical (2022). (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-tyranny/ The best things in life are meant to be sh…
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Rocky (1976), the ultimate underdog story, gives us an opportunity to talk about mental health, working to improve your situation despite difficult-to-deal with people, and getting others to believe you can go the distance (*spoiler warning*, although we bet you already know the ending anyway). People problems we address: Discouragement Helping Bea…
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Developing trust with new coworkers requires effort but it provides opportunities for growth and it is beneficial to the whole team. Scott may be out of this episode but Susan and Richard discuss Knight and Day (2010) and the process of building relationships of acknowledgment, respect, and trust with new people, especially those driven by connecti…
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Some coworkers and friends may have personality flaws and weaknesses that can be more challenging than others to deal with. Phil Connors exemplifies an egocentric and we talk about his progress and how to work with people who may have mental health or personality challenges. We talk about that and more as we discuss Groundhog Day (1993) on this epi…
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Project Veritas has just released another exposé in which a profiteering propagandist who self-identifies as an “educator” admits that he promotes critical race theory to and in public schools by omitting the words “critical race theory.” Yes, Americans really are that gullible. The racist scamster is Quintin Bostic, a homosexual who works for the …
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Getting an entire team on the same page to produce the best outcome is a difficult task. We discuss Henry Fonda's character (Juror #8) overcoming prejudice, working with diversity, and successfully navigating complexity to find the best outcome as we discuss 12 Angry Men on this episode of the Work With Me podcast. (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitr…
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There’s a grand act of un-creation taking place all across this nation. Leftists are busy with this ugly business of un-creating order, decency, justice, compassion, and beauty, and children play a central role in this ugly business. To leftists, children are both objects of un-creation and tools for un-creating society. If we want to see with grea…
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Leftists have redefined “hate.” To them hatred refers to ideas and moral beliefs that they think harm others. So, using that definition, how do leftists hate people? Let us count the ways. Well, not all the ways. That would suck dry the wellsprings of hope from which we draw at the beginning of each New Year and which are granted to us by a graciou…
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Two recent conversations over two days with two different people were variations on the theme of cultural dis-integration—or, perhaps more aptly, anti-culture integration. We are in the midst of a revolution propelled by the integration of the government—including government schools—big business, social media, the arts and entertainment industries,…
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The New Year is often a time of reflection and trying to improve through new goals. We talk about implementing organization-wide changes as we discuss Moneyball in this episode of the Work With Me Podcast. (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-the-as/ The best things in life are meant to be shared! Our podcast is availabl…
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Haven’t leftists sanctimoniously proclaimed that no “trans”-identifying man would ever harm women in women’s private spaces? Haven’t leftists bristled with faux-umbrage at the suggestion that allowing objectively male persons in women’s private spaces will result in predators pretending to be women to easily access their victims? Haven’t leftists h…
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Children are growing up in an America where adults celebrate the dismemberment of children in their mothers’ wombs. They are growing up where cross-dressing adult men twerk in children’s departments of public libraries, where adults tell children that some women have penises, where adults allow cross-dressing men into locker rooms with young girls …
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Helping employees see the value they provide to the organization can be a wonderful opportunity to help them overcome challenges and become more engaged. We talk about how to work with employees like George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life. (*spoiler warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-george-bailey/ The best things in life are …
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Biden’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, the notoriously creepy Sam Brinton, is in the news again and again for all the wrong reasons. Correction: Brinton finally lost his job on Monday after not one but two luggage thefts at two airports: one in Las Vegas and one in Minneapolis. His luggage of choice is…
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In a brazen act of anti-Christian disrespect and cultural appropriation, Edison Middle School (CUSD 200) in the formerly conservative town of Wheaton, Illinois has chosen to deface a Christian symbol that celebrates the birth of Christ. The DuPage Policy Journal reported that Edison is prominently displaying a full-size rainbow-colored “gay pride” …
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If you want to know what “progressive” teachers think of conservative parents, please take a gander at the following blog post from recently retired Deerfield High School English teacher (and former colleague) David Hirsch. On October 6, 2022, Hirsch published a post titled, “Watch Out Parents: Big Conservative Is Not Just Coming After Teachers and…
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Well, well, well, a recent news story pokes a hole in the leftist media portrayal of crossdressers as paragons of virtue and mental health who must never be criticized. The story emerges from Chicago where LaSaia Wade, a crossdressing man who spends his days trying to normalize sexual deviance, has been fired from Brave Space Alliance, the “LGBTQ” …
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Finding the right fit when it comes to hiring and dealing with employee trends like "quiet quitting" is a challenge that we discuss when we talk about Elf in this episode of the Work With Me podcast. (*spoiler warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-finding-fit/ The best things in life are meant to be shared! Our podcast is available…
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As you read this, remember how many times leftists assured Americans that homosexuals wanted nothing more than to be left alone to do their thing in the privacy of their bedrooms. And remember how they asserted that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” would affect no one, no way, no how. Two days ago, the Corruption of Marriage Act (COMA)—known…
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PODCAST: Leftists Want to Enshrine a Right to Exterminate the Unborn in Illinois’ Constitution
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Leftist boomers and their ideological spawn together have created the worst generations, shameful heirs of a noble legacy hard-won by our forebears. Leftist boomers, taking their cues from pervert Alfred Kinsey, hedonist man-child Hugh Hefner, and addled Timothy Leary, ushered in the drug and sexual revolutions. Satiating primitive urges, escapist …
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By hook, crook, the DOJ, FBI, policies, Executive Orders, courts, and laws, leftist public “servants”—both elected and unelected—have long had conservatives in the sights of their weapons of war. And they’ve had powerful allies in this battle in the legacy news media, government schools, and, more recently, social media and corporate America, inclu…
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Sometimes personal and family issues can be a bit complex and even leak over into work. We talk about how to work through those at work and home in this episode where we discuss Dan in Real Life (2007). Check out the show notes at https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-personal-issues/. The best things in life are meant to be shared! Our podc…
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Since the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade was overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leftists have been roiling in rage at the thought that states are now free to enact the will of their voters with regard to killing humans in the womb. In his concurrence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that three other Supreme …
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I just read this comment from a conservative: “I’m done. Prayers didn’t help. We are doomed. Why even vote?” Come on, conservatives, SNAP OUT OF IT! … It’s fine to take a moment to absorb the shock and disappointment. … Okay, that moment has now passed. Now, it’s time to take stock, point fingers, give some GOP leaders the heave-ho, and then get to…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has decided to throw a boulder in the path of conservative people of faith who want to serve their communities as police officers. In September, Newsom signed into law a bill that amends a reasonable existing law which requires police officers to be free from any “emotional or mental condition that might adversely a…
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Have you found working with some leaders to be inconceivable? We talk about responsive leadership styles this week as we discuss the 1987 cult classic, The Princess Bride. (*spoiler warning) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/leadership-styles/ The best things in life are meant to be shared! Our podcast is available on all great podcasting apps. Apple…
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Halloween: the favorite holiday of men who cross-dress, wear woman-face, and like to hang around young children. And in San Diego they did just that. The San Diego Union-Tribune (U-T) reported on the “first-ever Boo Bash,” which included, “candy, a kid’s costume contest,” and, fittingly, “a Disney-villain themed drag queen performance.” Drag queens…
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Friday morning, Illinois Family Institute (IFI) was unpleasantly greeted with JB Pritzker’s deceitful, divisive, anti-Christian screed—er, press release—that uses IFI to besmirch his gubernatorial opponent, the exceptional Darren Bailey. Through this screed/press release Pritzker unwittingly besmirched every conservative Illinoisan—including theolo…
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Jessica Valenti, author of the book Sex Object: A Memoir and founder of the blog Feministing, is a dishonest woman with the unseemly life mission to keep abortion safe, legal, and commonplace. She describes herself on TikTok as a “feminist author” and “a much bigger deal on Twitter,” who writes “about abortion every day.” Valenti, an avid proponent…
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Solutions that seem magical can be very attractive. How do you work together with your team to find long-lasting solutions? We discuss tips and tricks for getting results in this episode focused on the original Hocus Pocus (1993). (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-magic-solutions/ The best things in life are meant to …
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While many Republicans are celebrating Tulsi Gabbard’s exit from the destructive Democrat Party, Illinois Family Institute is taking a wait-and-see approach to yet another political incarnation of Gabbard. While rejecting the Democrat Party and its baleful policies is always a good thing, not every exit from the Democrat Party constitutes an embrac…
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Recently, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Transgender Health Clinic, and Akron Children’s Hospital have been under fire for engaging in experimental cross-sex hormone-doping on gender confused teens—some effects of which are risky and…
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What are the best ways to build a new team, organization, or business? The right mixture of personality and experience can be a powerful foundation for building new teams that get the job done. Ghostbusters (1984) illustrates how the right team in the right emerging organization can lay the groundwork for success. (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitra…
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Uh oh, somebody at the Today Show didn’t get the message from the Ministry of Truth. Last week, a panel of four Today Show talking heads called the human creature with human organs, a human head, human limbs, human features, and human expressions growing inside of a woman a “baby.” #HumanHeadsWillRoll Stacey Abrams is not going to be happy about th…
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On September 9, 2022, Indiana University (IU) issued a press release announcing that in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Kinsey Institute, the university has installed a life-size bronze statue of entomologist and pervert extraordinaire Alfred C. Kinsey after whom the Kinsey Institute is named. Demonstrating the astonishing ignorance and hypocr…
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At first glance, diversity can seem to be a huge barrier to creating healthy relationships. Knives Out (2019) gives some fun insights into how we overcome relationship barriers to be innovative and come up with solutions that will help us improve performance. (*Spoiler Warning*) https://ifitraining.com/podcast/working-with-relationship-barriers/ Th…
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Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not on Earth anymore. By now many Americans have heard—or worse, seen—photos of the male shop teacher in Ontario, Canada who sports mammoth mammaries with erect nipples in skintight tops to class. The mentally ill and morally degenerate teacher goes by his new name, Kayla Lemieux, and he now sashays around school in a dra…
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Sexual libertines long sought to transform cultural disapproval of homoeroticism into approval, and one way they pursued this goal was to co-opt the fight of blacks for racial equality. Hence, sexual libertines pursued the inclusion of homosexuality (and now “gender identity”) in anti-discrimination law. To that end, sexual libertines relentlessly …
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Leftists, practiced at the art of deception, do not care about anyone who lives in America. They care about one thing: maintaining power at all costs. And they think catering to criminals will achieve that goal. Case in point the in-credibly—as in not credibly–named Safe-T Act (Safety Accountability Fairness and Equity-Today), which passed Illinois…
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On September 6, the Human Services Committee of Evanston City Council voted unanimously to send Alderman Devon Reid’s proposed ordinance to allow women to go topless in “all public places (forward to 51:25)” to the “Equity and Empowerment Committee.” Reid wants his proposed ordinance reviewed over concerns that “it excluded the transgender communit…
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