Category Peer Powered Performance

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...

HR: Humane Resources December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Hierarchical designs created before color television

Twenty years ago after creating the new employee “Service Camp” for the Coeur d’Alene Resort I was given the opportunity to move from operations to HR. I loved the possibilities but hated the realities. Too much time limiting liabilities and very little investment in growing resources. (Oh, and I also hated the little office in the back hall.) In the nearly two decades since, I find that for many (not all), little has changed.

There are still far too many resources devoted to protecti...

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...

Top Down Tyranny Is The Mother Of Mutiny December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

This is part of a conversation from a LinkedIn group called Step into the Spotlight. I belong to many groups most of which are copious in their communication but devoid of discussion. This is the same challenge facing many nonprofits, governmental organizations and hierarchical entities of all kinds. It has been the common practice all over the world...

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 ...