Category Emotional Intelligence

Those Awkward Emotions December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

We are settling in with my Mom and Dad who will be with us for the next four months while their house is being built. It is surprising the childhood triggers that surface in close proximity. As usual there are always great lessons. The most significant this morning is how difficult it is to embrace honesty in a culture (family) steeped in history...

Part 5: Evolving to Peer Power December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence One comment

Peer Powered Performance™ (P³⁾ is a slow system for fast change designed to methodically, consistently and transparently unleash the energy, creativity, resolve and resilience available in every organization. P³ is not a one shot, quick fix, “check this one-off the list” solution, but a process for increasing awareness through education, transparency and collaboration.

Peer Powered Performance™ is not a system for revolution but a process for evolution...

Are a few BAD APPLES costing you 40% December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

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I always believed that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) education was most effectively addressed as individual sets of skills, but I no longer think that is true. EQ comes in communities. We have all seen very high EQ people behave in very unconscious ways given the right-wrong environment. We have also observed very unconscious people lifted to new levels of awareness simply by being in the presence of those few fearless among us...

Confessions of an EQ FAILURE December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

I recently “pressured” my parents, who are well into their “golden years”, into leaving their beloved Pacific Northwest to live near us here in Boise. My wife and I spent months creating as much space and comfort as possible so we could all live together comfortably for the five months it would take for their house to be built. Our cohabitation lasted three weeks. I failed not just miserably but spectacularly. I intellectually knew what to do but in the heat of the moments it seemed ...

Peer Power Primer December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

How would you create a culture that attracts 1000 applicants for every position like Zappos or grows its customer base fivefold in just four years as HCL Technologies did? Few would expect to learn the secrets of success from a small town credit union in Boulder City, Nevada, or a rural hospital in Southern Arizona, but wouldn’t you like to know how to create a team that can increase assets by 270% while only adding one employee, or how to be so honest with your board that they plead with you...