Category Association Insights

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 ...

# 1 factor in millennial job selection December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work No comments

People and culture fit are the #1 factors in choosing what company to work for according to a survey of 15,000 Millennials reported in How Companies Can Attract the Best College Talent by Sanjeev Agrawal. The View From Behind the Workplace Flexibility Curve echoed that sentiment with the admonition that culture includes the ability to work when and where they are most productive.

If Millennials can’t find flexibility in your workplace
they will find it or build it themselves.

Allow employe...

Leading-Edge Leadership December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

The days of top down “Anything” are over. The choice for everyone is evolution or extinction and those with the best ideas for improvement are closest to the customer. Those on the leading edge of of the customer interaction are the only ones who experience the disconnections. “Being There” is the key to improving care.

Whether you are a struggling start-up, heritage hierarchy or as ginormous as Google everyone deserves an opportunity to “tweak the tension”...

Predictive Index, Total Transparency or Circle of Scholars December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Training No comments

Inspired by the April 16th HBR Management Tip of the Day: Ask Your “Loving Critics” for Real Feedback adapted from To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask” by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner.

I respectfully disagree with the recommendation. These esteemed authors seem incredibly kind of when they say “subordinates are often more reluctant” to point out deficiencies in their supervisors...

When is Long-Term care appropriate? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Just 4 Laughs No comments

My dad, who is just about to turn 80, sent this to me. I hope you enjoy the system of diagnosis as much as I did. Though hidden in humor (which is the best way to convey almost any message) the story says a great deal about the heuristics we use in decision making.

During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, “How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in a Long-Term Care Home?”

“Well,” he said, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the...