Category Positive Deviance

Peer Power Invitation December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

If you have come to this posting in follow up to one of many keynote presentations congratulations and thank you. Most people have good intentions in the moment but it is easy to fall back into the daily grind of too much to do and too little time to invest in yourself. You are your most important investment.

According to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, each day we are given 20,000 moments.

For most a vast majority of these moments are simply reruns or what has been ...

Engage through Imagery December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work

Simple ideas understood by all are both the salve and the anchors that keep a team’s “eye on the prize” in challenging times. Vineet Nayar in his book Employees First, Customers Second used the story of the “Big Windows” he discovered at a friend’s home in Amsterdam to focus his team on the value (and discomfort) of transparency. He shared this story with absolutely everyone so they all had a common language...

Part 1: Solving Stress: The Inside Solution December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 3 comments

This is part four in a five part examination of the forces that keep individuals and institutions caught a cycle of stress trapped by unexamined assumptions and ill designed solutions. Part one examined the role of self in our illusory imprisonment, two the often subconscious part played by supervisors in the continuing incarceration and section three delves into the irresistible influence exerted on us by our peers. Chapter four introduces the value of using the Positive Peer Pull of...

Motivation is Misleading December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

Motivational experts imply that just the right speech can create a shift in awareness that changes everything. And they are absolutely right ……for 2% of the people.

change-failures

The other 98% need time, attention, conversation and community to create sustainable transformation. The counterproductive effect of this quick fix approach is that the short term sugar high of unrealistic expectations is quickly replaced with a lasting low of knowing that something is missing.

There is something missing but i...

Permanent Monday Syndrome December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Topics, Training

Once again Gallop’s survey of 150,000 workers proves what too many already know from daily experience. There is a reason they call it work. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams reported in last night’s broadcast that only 30% of employees reported being engaged, 52% openly admit they are not and 18% are actively disengaged.

This is not new news – roughly the same statistics have been reported for the last three years, which makes you wonder...