Category Peer Powered Performance

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...

Tired of feeling stressed? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work No comments

I just finished Shawn Achor’s latest book Before Happiness and decided to revisit my first introduction to Mr. Achor’s insights. In the The Happiness Advantage Shawn describes our mis-perceptions about the relationship of happiness and performance this way.

“Most people believe that once they become successful, then they’ll be happy...

The Science of Emotion December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Leadership is a Science

Leadership used to be referred to as an art. Now it is a proven science. Every component of this process has a purpose. Like the endless lines of zeros and ones in binary code, it is not only the content of each component but the space between that produces the results.

Humor with a purpose

laughing_audience In live presentations I am most often described as a humorist, but my purpose is not laughter. I use humor to share difficult lessons in an entertaining way...

Fearless Conversations or Fearful Conciliation’s? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Keynote Keys, Peer Powered Performance, Training

Using Unrelated Stories to Overcome
Unreasonable Defensiveness

I was recently asked to come up with an approach to safety concerns at one of the largest concrete structures in our country.

The request, as usual, was to be funny, fix the problem, and get out. You have 45 minutes. An impossible objective, but it is entirely my own fault. I am a victim of my own creation. For two decades I have been most widely known as a keynote humorist...

Achieve more Autonomy December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

Todays’ acronym for improvement is AMP to help us remember three primary intrinsic motivations. According to research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, (pronounced me-HIGH chick-sent-me-HIGH-ee) these motivations are Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

President Kennedy knew the country needed a great Purpose when he promised to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth by the end of the decade.

We know he believed in our ability to create Mastery because at the time of this proclamation hi...