Category Affective Leadership

Make More Mistakes December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work No comments

We all want to be around people who make us feel good about ourselves. Even when they are critical of our performance they always appreciate the performer. When we judge someone else we lump the doer and the deed together. We do this to others because we do it to ourselves, and it is a HUGE MISTAKE. You are not your actions; you are that which acts and you act based on your best level of awareness at that time...

Change Drains, Innovation Ignites December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Change Drains

The need for change implies we were not only doing something wrong, but that we were wrong. The feeling of being wrong has an incredibly powerful influence. In the midst of having a great day we can make one mistake and that is all we think about on our way home. We are hard wired to notice and remember anything that feels like a threat. The feeling of being wrong is tremendously threatening and that picture pulls us towards failure.

70% of organizational change initiat...

How do you energize your change strategies? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Deviance No comments

peer-powered-prodding

Take a tip from OPOWER and use peer power to energize change. Most of us “know” the changes we need to make, but if knowing were enough the average person wouldn’t make the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.[i]

We need not only to know the changes we want to make, but believe we can. One of the best ways to increase our expectations of success is to see the accomplishments of our peers...

IV = III +III December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Training No comments

If you were allowed to move just one line to make this equation (IV = III +III) true, what would you do? The answer from Jonah Lehrer’s new book Imagine: How Creativity Works is moving the first I to the right of the V changing the equation to VI = III +III. (Those left brains among us are now very glad I provided the solution.)

The next equation is slightly more difficult. Using the same rule (move just one line) to make this equation correct. III = III + III...

Creativity, Truth: 3 authors, 5 books that change everything December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work, Training One comment

If you are looking for resources to reinforce creativity, encourage honesty and dispel the illusions that undermine performance, I recommend three authors and five books. The first is Daniel Pink. I have read two of Daniel’s four books A Whole New Mind and Drive. The first in particular provides powerful examples of why the “Right Brainers” of the world will be a driving force in designing the future...