Category Positive Deviance
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How do you energize your change strategies?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Deviance 
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Take a tip from OPOWER and use peer power to energize change. Most of us “know” the changes we need to make, but if knowing were enough the average person wouldn’t make the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.[i]
We need not only to know the changes we want to make, but believe we can. One of the best ways to increase our expectations of success is to see the accomplishments of our peers...
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5. Success lies not in the validity of our answers, but the quality of our questions.
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Deviance -
The best solutions are not told or sold, but encouraged and elicited. In the example cited in Transformers resist positional power the HCLT leadership team developed a Facebook style collaborative tool called U&I. Their
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intention was to share the goals and accomplishments of the organization with all employees. What they discovered was that the “Transformational” team members did not want to be told “what had happened” they wanted to be involved deciding “what would happen”... -
The Science of Emotion
December 15, 2021
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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
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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... -
Emotions, Education and Engagement: Misunderstanding Motivation
December 15, 2021
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Should you send your children to the best schools possible?
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Are your new members suffering from “Relative Deprivation?”
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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...
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Energized by Inclusion
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance -
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.
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In contrast, many work environments are inundated with ambigui...