Teen Bill of Responsibilities

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This is a book about teens, their choices and their responsibility for those choices. It's a book that is meant to be used even more than it is meant to be read. When the reader is finished with it, most of the pages will contain the reader's words, the reader's ideas and the reader's realizations.

As teenagers transition from childhood to adulthood, naturally they want more rights, more options. They want to be treated differently, and with more respect. They want to have more control over their lives and make more decisions that affect them.

Each chapter is divided into three parts. The first part includes examples of rights and responsibilities that pertain to the chapter topic. For example:

I have the right to be offended by
what someone says or does.
I have a responsibility to realize that not
everything that offends me is necessarily offensive.

The second part includes a typical right the reader might have that pertains to the chapter topic. Several blank lines immediately follow each right in this section. They are provided for the reader to write what he  thinks his responsibility would be for that particular right. For example:

I have the right to expect my parents to be proud of me.
I have the responsibility to ______________

The third part allows the reader to come up with his own "right and responsibility" examples. The only rule is that the examples fall under the category of the chapter topic.

I have the right to___________________
I have the responsibility to___________________

Another way to use the book is to read parts of it aloud and discuss it with friends. The author advises that participants keep an open mind and use real examples from their own lives.

A third way to understand the ideas in this book is to take the Teen Bill of Responsibilities Course, which is available for free to middle schools, high schools and homeschools (click here for more details).

Understanding the connection between rights and responsibilities provides teenagers with the tools to handle life's challenges more effectively. It also provides them with the wisdom to use their power in ways that will leave this world a better place than they found it. 

Corporate Bill of Responsibilities

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Companies of all sizes have a social, economic, and environmental impact on their communities. It's easy to see that employees and stockholders are directly and negatively impacted when corporations and their executives are not held accountable for their actions. At the same time Corporate America creates jobs, provides benefits, and produces goods and services this country cannot do without. When people lose faith in Corporate America, every American is hurt.

Author Stephen Smoke has written a business book that is different from any other book of its kind. Corporate Bill of Responsibilities is an interactive experience that offers employers, employees, and the general public a template for being part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Using the Socratic Method and Guided Discussion techniques, the book provides a process that employees and employers can use to experience their own revelations about responsibility and values in the workplace and in their personal lives.

When all employees, from the CEO to the person running the mailroom, understand and adopt quality corporate values, and are able to use those values to make decisions in their own spheres of responsibility, then a thousand employees become one entity moving in the same direction. The traditional vertical company becomes more horizontal. Satisfaction and reward are more evenly distributed, and a company has the potential to grow and not just change.

CEOs: Learn how to lead by example, inspire others, increase morale and minimize company politics. Learn how to determine, then publish and effectively implement corporate values and ethical standards.

Managers: Learn how best to motivate employees and create an atmosphere of "fairness, not fear" in the workplace. 

Employees: Learn to clarify their rights and responsibilities at work. Discover how to achieve personally and professionally at work, and how to communicate openly without fear of recrimination.

The Corporate Bill of Responsibilities gives readers a unique and no-nonsense guide to balancing corporate rights with corporate responsibilities, and individual rights with individual responsibilities. It is the author's hope that corporations, employees and the community will understand the important synergies they share, and that they will all act on that knowledge in a more responsible manner that benefits them all.

A Corporate Bill of Responsibilities ONE DAY WORKSHOP will soon be available, in either an online or on-site format. For more information please Click Here.