Category Affective Leadership

Leading without Positional Power December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Diagnostics, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

The Starfish and the Spider+Employees First

Leaderless organizations are everywhere. If you don’t find ways to include everyone on your team, you may soon be the one sitting on the bench.

After reading a bio of one of my business heroes, Vineet Nayar I decided to read his favorite book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom. Vineet was the CEO of HCL Technologies at the time and has been recognized as one of the top business thinkers in the world today...

Innovation is the difference between creating the future and reliving the past. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

The benefits of secure, private, transparent, “Facebook Style” collaborative tool is virtually endless but here are twenty just to get you started.

You create a positive resource focusing attention on energizing and empowering ideas.
Connecting a geographically and organizationally diverse group of Team Members.
Team Members are highly motivated to only submit their best ideas.
Leaders have a vehicle to nurture Team Member ideas.
Everyone is encouraged to participate.
The ...

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

This is based another enlightening IdeaCast

How Effective Leaders Talk (and Listen)

It is directed toward big business but the difference between communications and conversations are critical to every relationship.

Can of worms Most GOOD organizations including nonprofit associations focus on good communication to their members or employees.

GREAT organizations understand that engagement is not engendered by being good at communicating outwardly but by being thoroughly invested in listening intently.

When...

The Upside of Inverting Your Organization December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

This is a MUST READ for anyone serious about giving your front line team FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY.

Recognized as the 2008 the “Number One Best Employer in India” by Hewitt Associates and Business Week. HCLT is propelled by a leadership style described by Fortune Magazine as “The World’s Most Modern Management” CEO Vineet Nayar has been singled out by the London Business School as “the leader of organizational Innovation”...

Have your meetings lost their “Muchness”? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Video Samples

If you would like your next event to be even more Wonder-Full? Take a few tips from Wonderland. Being a meeting planner or educator requires wearing the hats of author, illustrator, screen writer, director and actor to create experiences that both educate and entertain.

The most important outcome of any event is not in information shared, revenue generated or goals exceeded, but in the lasting stories we create.

Meaningful change is not the result of a single exposure to new ideas regardless of ...