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Part 5: Evolving to Peer Power

December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence  One comment

stability plus creativity

Peer Powered Performance™ (P3) is a slow system for fast change designed to methodically, consistently and transparently unleash the energy, creativity, resolve and resilience available in everyno check list training organization.  P3 is not a one shot, quick fix, “check this one-off the list” solution, but a process for increasing awareness through education, transparency and collaboration.

Peer Powered Performance™ is not a system for revolution but a process for evolution...

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Do you despise Motivational Speakers?

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipPeer Powered Performance

not-motivational speaker

Despite being in the profession for almost two decades and receiving a designation earned by less than 10% of professional speakers[i] I am uncomfortable introducing myself as a “motivational speaker”.  Last week when asked to introduce myself to a class on the value of internal social networks I said; “Most people describe me as a ‘Motivational Speaker’ which simply means I get people excited to hear about things they will forget within the week”...

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Are a few BAD APPLES costing you 40%

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligencePeer Powered Performance

bad apple

I always believed that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) education was most effectively addressed as individual sets of skills, but I no longer think that is true.  EQ comes in communities.  We have all seen very high EQ people behave in very unconscious ways given the right-wrong environment.  We have also observed very unconscious people lifted to new levels of awareness simply by being in the presence of those few fearless among us...

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Part 2: The manager’s role in challenging the status quo.

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligencePeer Powered Performance  3 comments

Innovation requires experimentation

Every day, well-intentioned managers work exceedingly hard to ensure efficiency of time and task.  They allocate resources, define expectations and alleviate obstacles.   The system is both predictable and “productive”...

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Part 1: Solving Stress: The Inside Solution

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligencePeer Powered PerformancePositive Deviance  3 comments

Solving Stress the Inside Solution

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...

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