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Is email killing your team’s performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Atos an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries thinks so and is planning to ban email for internal communications by 2014[i].

What is email waste costing you? According to a survey posted in PRNewswire 25% of “email time” is wasted for a total of 15 days per year. Let’s do the numbers

Total employees X (average annual wage + 15% benefits) X 6% = YIKES!!!
Example: 1200 employees X $30/hour = W...

Is email the bane of nonprofit progress? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Most nonprofit boards are risk averse so we find that the most effective way to make significant progress is to invest our own time and money to develop, test and prove service systems without any form of guarantee or initial investment required by the board. In the first year we typically lose money but once we work out all the bugs and have successful systems in place we are typically treated like valued partners and compensated fairly for continuing to provide the service...

Parallel systems power creativity and efficiency December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence One comment

It seems that whenever I come up with a revolutionary new idea it only takes a little more research to find someone who had the same insight……before I was even born. This week’s blast from the past comes from Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933). Not only was Mary admired for her smashing hairdo but she was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt as his personal consultant for her expertise as a management theorist...

3. Transformers resist positional power December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership One comment

Successful change initiatives don’t require everyone, but they do need the situational leaders within the ranks. In describing the transformation to an “Employees First” culture of the 50,000 employee multinational IT Company HCLT, CEO Vineet Nayar believes his employees fell into three distinct categories, lost souls (Zom-Bees), fence sitters and transformers. To accomplish their transition he focused on the transformers.

These were not the happy “go along to get along” type but often t...

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 No comments

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 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”...