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What is Peer Powered Performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work No comments

Many people have inquired as to the purpose of our new Peer Powered Performance™ LinkedIn group. In short we wanted to create a place dedicated to those interested in exploring any combination of systems that help to establish:

All-inclusive
Non-coercive
Totally-transparent
Collaborative communities

Peer Powered Performance™ is based on the belief that organizations of all kinds, for-profit and non-profit alike are far more effective and innovative when they are designed for the...

Illusory Superiority: The Lake Wobegon Effect December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Social Smarts No comments

Prompted by the article from NonProfit Times When Board Members Just Don’t Get It my wife shared (she is the brains) I was inspired to add my own thoughts for the purpose of understanding the power of humor in revealing our illusions. Who better to fill our hearts with laughter while challenging our minds to wonder than Garrison Keillor.

Most of us can imagine his melodic voice as he lovingly describes his mythical hometown as a place “where all the women are strong, all the men are good lo...

Inoculations of Inspiration or Tools for Transformation April 4, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 4 comments

Over the past thirty years as a manager and particularly in the last fifteen as a professional consultant and keynote speaker I have built a career around the conviction that it just takes one person, one moment of insight to change a life forever. There are many people who over my career for whom I have made a profound difference. There are also many more who have been entertained, educated and even inspired for weeks or months who eventually revert to old habits of thinking, old ways of se...

Googling Leadership January 15, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Over the past fifteen years I have worked with some amazing managers. They are dedicated, hard working and with few exceptions most were promoted into their roles primarily because of their technical expertise. This is not to say that many don’t have exceptional leadership skills, but that “soft skills” are often viewed as being less important than their more quantifiable counterparts.

Google Stock analysis This is not unlike the culture that created Google, where algorithmic expertise was prized above all ...

Keynote or Community-Temporary or Transformational September 13, 2012 Emotional Intelligence No comments

Keynote: Powerful, inspiring and insightful keynotes are irreplaceable. They set the emotional climate for any conference or training transporting people to a place where they remember the greatness that is within each of us. This experience is not an intellectual recollection of facts but a re-experiencing of truth.

We have all been the people we want to be. Sometimes we just forget.

The real benefit of a great keynote or short term training is not the information presented but t...