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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 ...

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...

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...

How do you energize your change strategies? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Deviance No comments

peer-powered-prodding

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...