Category Green Solutions

Innovation, Can there be Trust without Transparency? December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Despite endless exhortation of organizational innovation only 9% of U.S. companies are considered innovative. The problem is not an absence of talent but an undermining of trust. Innovation requires risk, failure is a fact and fear keeps most close to the warm fires of familiarity. The initiative to improve is successfully smothered by systems steeped in secrecy, committed to control and failing fabulously to do anything even remotely revolutionary.

Most efforts for organizational improvem...

Understanding Appreciative Inquiry December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Together the students and the teacher create the teaching

I was just about to publish an article about three incredible true stories when I realized I had not written about how those stories (or any story) can be used to help team members at all levels of an organization rediscover the unwritten influences that drive every organization. One such process is called Appreciative Inquiry

“Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a method for studying and changing social systems (groups, organizations, communities) that advocates collective inquiry into the best of wh...

Recycling the Same Old Issues? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance No comments

I am a recycling Neanderthal; I get confused about what goes where, do tops stay on, what kind of plastic is or isn’t recyclable, especially if there are bins or labels I may be unfamiliar with. Truth be told if I am in a hurry and can’t quickly decide (or don’t have my reading glasses) I give it my best guess and in they go. Reflecting on my sorting conundrum I realized this is exactly like the process nonprofit boards and staff go though.

The distribution of board/staff responsibilities ...

Does Altruism’s Influence Honesty? December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance 2 comments

As we are inundated with yet another story of “Moral Flexibility” it seems appropriate to reexamine the characteristics of our own cultures. Let’s begin with nine simple questions.

Which of these characteristics exemplify your team?

Strong group cohesion
Close personal connections
Self-policing
Robust privacy policy
High organizational esteem
Internal locus
Flexible metrics
Subjective operational assessment
Altruistic Intentions

If your team exhibits these characteristics, y...