Category Affective Leadership

Are you using Power or Force? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence One comment

Every picture we create in our minds has a magnetic power. These “Attractive Powers” have been measured and quantified through the use of behavioral kinesiology as described in books including Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins M.D., Ph.D. Power is universal and energizing, while the use of Force always creates its own resistance and is a negative drain on ourselves, our organizations and the world as a whole...

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

If you have come to this posting in follow up to one of many keynote presentations congratulations and thank you. Most people have good intentions in the moment but it is easy to fall back into the daily grind of too much to do and too little time to invest in yourself. You are your most important investment.

According to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, each day we are given 20,000 moments.

For most a vast majority of these moments are simply reruns or what has been ...

Accountability Inverted: Ten questions to change your leadership culture December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work No comments

I was recently required to submit a resume for a “leadership coaching and team development” consulting contract and realized my past leadership experience tells nothing about my skills as a leader today.

Demographics have changed, responsibilities have changed, and expectations have changed. It is not enough to get better at doing what we have always done. We have to understand the role of leadership in a completely different way...

Engage through Imagery December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work

Simple ideas understood by all are both the salve and the anchors that keep a team’s “eye on the prize” in challenging times. Vineet Nayar in his book Employees First, Customers Second used the story of the “Big Windows” he discovered at a friend’s home in Amsterdam to focus his team on the value (and discomfort) of transparency. He shared this story with absolutely everyone so they all had a common language...

Part 1: Solving Stress: The Inside Solution December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 3 comments

This is part four in a five part examination of the forces that keep individuals and institutions caught a cycle of stress trapped by unexamined assumptions and ill designed solutions. Part one examined the role of self in our illusory imprisonment, two the often subconscious part played by supervisors in the continuing incarceration and section three delves into the irresistible influence exerted on us by our peers. Chapter four introduces the value of using the Positive Peer Pull of...