Category Affective Leadership

Emotions, Education and Engagement: Misunderstanding Motivation

December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Feeling beings
  1. Should you send your children to the best schools possible?

  2. Are your new members suffering from “Relative Deprivation?”

  3. Is Self-Awareness part of your core curriculum?

I tend to be a nonconformist by nature which may be evident from my unconventional Red High Tops and cartoon style “Bee the Difference” illustrations.  Before I change my opinions I like to see facts and multiple sources to support new awareness...

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Energized by Inclusion

December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance  No comments

Judge Hammer

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power
.”

  The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.

blank scoreboardWe would never consider a sporting event without goals, displaying confusing scoreboards or faceless time clocks.  Instead feedback is immediate, concise, compelling, and consistently understood by everyone both in the game and on the sidelines.

goal posts In contrast, many work environments are inundated with ambigui...

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Shingles, You and System Two

December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

Ophthalmic Sensory Nerve Branches

First let me assure you THIS ARTICLE IS NOT about “stinging, tingling, aching, numbing, throbbing, sores interspersed with quick stabs of agonizing pain”.  This is a story about stress.  Business stress, personal stress and interpersonal stress.   They all suck and the first thing they suck is energy.  The challenge is finding the REAL source.

 This contribution is not designed to follow the progress of the Credit Union Leaders Book club as an application of the ideas in Daniel Kahneman’s

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Why “Change the Buzz” Bees?

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

Why Bees

Because “Bee-ing” is the single most important, and least understood step in any change involving complex social interactions.  Consider these statistics as evidence of our misconceptions about change.

  1. 95% of those who lose weight on a diet regain it.

  2. 25% of people abandon New Year’s resolutions within one week and 60% do so within six months.

  3. The average person makes the same resolution 10 times without success.

  4. 70% of organizational change initiatives ultimately fail.

These exam...

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Seven Secrets to help you rediscover the “re-newed” in you.

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

The best that can happen is happening

Everything happens to teach us about….ourselves

We just received the “opportunity News” that another conference had been “downsized”.  It included the typical tight budgets and difficult time’s apologies and promises of new bookings in the better days to come.

We know how hard it is to put on these conferences, especially for volunteers who  already have real full time jobs. These are perplexing times, but these are the times when people find out who we really are...

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