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Emotions, Education and Engagement: Misunderstanding Motivation December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Should you send your children to the best schools possible?
Are your new members suffering from “Relative Deprivation?”
Is Self-Awareness part of your core curriculum?

I tend to be a nonconformist by nature which may be evident from my unconventional Red High Tops and cartoon style “Bee the Difference” illustrations. Before I change my opinions I like to see facts and multiple sources to support new awareness...

Energized by Inclusion December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.

We would never consider a sporting event without goals, displaying confusing scoreboards or faceless time clocks. Instead feedback is immediate, concise, compelling, and consistently understood by everyone both in the game and on the sidelines.

goal posts In contrast, many work environments are inundated with ambigui...

Why “Change the Buzz” Bees? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

Because “Bee-ing” is the single most important, and least understood step in any change involving complex social interactions. Consider these statistics as evidence of our misconceptions about change.

95% of those who lose weight on a diet regain it.
25% of people abandon New Year’s resolutions within one week and 60% do so within six months.
The average person makes the same resolution 10 times without success.
70% of organizational change initiatives ultimately fail.

These exam...

Seven Secrets to help you rediscover the “re-newed” in you. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

Everything happens to teach us about….ourselves

We just received the “opportunity News” that another conference had been “downsized”. It included the typical tight budgets and difficult time’s apologies and promises of new bookings in the better days to come.

We know how hard it is to put on these conferences, especially for volunteers who already have real full time jobs. These are perplexing times, but these are the times when people find out who we really are...

Fight the Fear, Stay off the Brakes December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

FEAR MAKES PEOPLE DANGEROUS. This is true on icy roads, congested traffic and in leading people through difficult changes. Most of us have experienced accelerating to merge into fast moving traffic only to find the driver in front of us paralyzed by the process has slammed on their brakes. Winter news broadcasts are full of the latest dash cam capture of inexperienced icy-roads drivers spinning out of control with both feet jammed on the brake pedal...

Category Peer Powered Performance

Emotions, Education and Engagement: Misunderstanding Motivation

Energized by Inclusion

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that “he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge, and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.

Why “Change the Buzz” Bees?

Seven Secrets to help you rediscover the “re-newed” in you.

Fight the Fear, Stay off the Brakes

Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”

The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.