Category Affective Leadership

What Number Crunchers Know About You December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Just 4 Laughs

$It’s not Magic. It’s Math$

For ten years we managed an international research organization packed with people that we didn’t understand at all. They LOVED numbers. To them numbers are like a crystal ball capable of forecasting the future with amazing accuracy. Math and it is being used everyday to know what you’re going to buy before you do.

Do you know why they they put produce at the front of the grocery store? I always thought that was backwards because you put it at the bottom of the cart where it can g...

Expectations Shape Realizations December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

I woke up early this morning thinking about a comment made after an all-day program yesterday. She said, “He knows how I am“.

When I think about how I responded to events in my life even just a few years ago, I realize the things I used to believe about myself were not true. It also follows logically then that what I believe about myself right now is not true as well...

Gallup Wrong Inconceivable December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Diagnostics, Emotional Intelligence

lockers_closeup-web The “Inconceivable” part is for all you Princess Bride fans.

Gallup’s 2013 70% Disengagement Data is being described as inaccurate by Forbes Magazine contributor Jack Zenger. Jack is also the co-founder and CEO of Zenger Folkman. I don’t know if the analysis by Gallup is misleading.

I have used the Gallup employee engagement statistics for years and never stopped to think about the negative impact of such labeling even if it were true.

Jack’s viewpoint reminded me of a long forgotten a ...

Achieve more Autonomy December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

Todays’ acronym for improvement is AMP to help us remember three primary intrinsic motivations. According to research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, (pronounced me-HIGH chick-sent-me-HIGH-ee) these motivations are Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

President Kennedy knew the country needed a great Purpose when he promised to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth by the end of the decade.

We know he believed in our ability to create Mastery because at the time of this proclamation hi...

Another Mental Myth Shattered December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Keynote Keys

Remember these impressive statistics.

We remember

10% of what we read

20% of what we hear

30% of what we see

50% of what we see and hear

70% of what we say

90% of what we say and do

The problem with these, like most simple solutions to complex problems, is they are wrong. We all learn in different ways and at different paces.

The optimum learning design depends on the “content, context, and learner”.

Here are seven key points offered in research conducted by Cisco.*

Avoid multitasking...