Category Affective Leadership

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

Motivational experts imply that just the right speech can create a shift in awareness that changes everything. And they are absolutely right ……for 2% of the people.

change-failures

The other 98% need time, attention, conversation and community to create sustainable transformation. The counterproductive effect of this quick fix approach is that the short term sugar high of unrealistic expectations is quickly replaced with a lasting low of knowing that something is missing.

There is something missing but i...

Permanent Monday Syndrome December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Topics, Training

Once again Gallop’s survey of 150,000 workers proves what too many already know from daily experience. There is a reason they call it work. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams reported in last night’s broadcast that only 30% of employees reported being engaged, 52% openly admit they are not and 18% are actively disengaged.

This is not new news – roughly the same statistics have been reported for the last three years, which makes you wonder...

Change doesn’t have to be painful December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work No comments

The challenges facing government employees are HUGE but the solutions don’t need to be painful. Change is only hard when we are unwilling to let go of the past. We all have this weird need to justify the “rightness” of past behavior.

Who we have been and what we have done has nothing to do with who we are now unless we choose to chain ourselves to our history.

We are not our actions; we are that which acts and
we act based on our best awareness AT THAT TIME.

If we hold on to the past we...

Is email killing your team’s performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Atos an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries thinks so and is planning to ban email for internal communications by 2014[i].

What is email waste costing you? According to a survey posted in PRNewswire 25% of “email time” is wasted for a total of 15 days per year. Let’s do the numbers

Total employees X (average annual wage + 15% benefits) X 6% = YIKES!!!
Example: 1200 employees X $30/hour = W...

Is email the bane of nonprofit progress? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Most nonprofit boards are risk averse so we find that the most effective way to make significant progress is to invest our own time and money to develop, test and prove service systems without any form of guarantee or initial investment required by the board. In the first year we typically lose money but once we work out all the bugs and have successful systems in place we are typically treated like valued partners and compensated fairly for continuing to provide the service...