Category Affective Leadership

Understanding Appreciative Inquiry December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Together the students and the teacher create the teaching

I was just about to publish an article about three incredible true stories when I realized I had not written about how those stories (or any story) can be used to help team members at all levels of an organization rediscover the unwritten influences that drive every organization. One such process is called Appreciative Inquiry

“Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a method for studying and changing social systems (groups, organizations, communities) that advocates collective inquiry into the best of wh...

Top Down Tyranny Is The Mother Of Mutiny December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

This is part of a conversation from a LinkedIn group called Step into the Spotlight. I belong to many groups most of which are copious in their communication but devoid of discussion. This is the same challenge facing many nonprofits, governmental organizations and hierarchical entities of all kinds. It has been the common practice all over the world...

Recycling the Same Old Issues? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance No comments

I am a recycling Neanderthal; I get confused about what goes where, do tops stay on, what kind of plastic is or isn’t recyclable, especially if there are bins or labels I may be unfamiliar with. Truth be told if I am in a hurry and can’t quickly decide (or don’t have my reading glasses) I give it my best guess and in they go. Reflecting on my sorting conundrum I realized this is exactly like the process nonprofit boards and staff go though.

The distribution of board/staff responsibilities ...

HR Meeting Resources Part 1: Daniel Kahneman December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Creating Conversociations, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance One comment

Thank you to all of you who attended the June meeting “Hierarchy, Heterarchy, Holacracy Oh My”. I appreciate the opportunity, your rapt attention and kind comments. Many have reached out to me for the promised resources. I am in the process of chunking the slides you requested into short digestible lessons (as per the Khan Academy approach).

The “Bee the Difference” characters included throughout are, like my red high-tops, symbolic of the first and most important step in any sustainab...

Evolution to Inclusion December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Social Smarts No comments

There are many books espousing systems from Holacracy to Meritocracy but few that will give you a first-hand account of the fears, failures, successes and stumbles from the view of a CEO. Vineet’s inversion of HCL was painful and productive, divisive and inclusive, respected and reviled. He titles his book Employees First, Customers Second but his actions never marginalized any “value adding alliance”. Customers were more important than ever...