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Employees in Pajamas?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work -
Imagine you are experiencing the worst economic times in recent history. You have just invested in a complete online employee survey program. The results have been painstakingly analyzed and reviewed, and you have a plan for action. Your entire team is scheduled for a nearly unprecedented early morning meeting to give the consulting team ample opportunity to address the issues identified through the survey process and your entire staff shows up ………………in pajamas. Would you be?
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Are you using Power or Force?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence 
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Every picture we create in our minds has a magnetic power. These “Attractive Powers” have been measured and quantified through the use of behavioral kinesiology as described in books including Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins M.D., Ph.D. Power is universal and energizing, while the use of Force always creates its own resistance and is a negative drain on ourselves, our organizations and the world as a whole...
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Motivation is Misleading
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance -
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.
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...
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1. No news is not good news
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence -
The longer leaders wait to tell the truth the deeper hole they will have to dig out of when they start. As human beings we are hard wired to constantly asses our environment for signs of threat.
We are not unlike the members of a baboon tribe who look towards the “alpha” every twenty to thirty seconds.
People tend to focus their attention up the hierarchy and in the absence of positive feedback imagine the worst. When we are under stress this tendency for trepidation is even greater.
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Red Shoes and Bee Characters keep the “Buzz” alive.
September 13, 2012
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work, Training -
Red High top “Chucks” have been my trademark for more than 15 years. Last year we added the “Change the Buzz” Bees to our brand family. Each Bee is designed to provide a visual reminder of the creative buzz within each of us. We are all simply energy buzzing around at speeds so fast our eyes see only the illusion of solid form. But our forms, our bodies never stop changing.
Cells are made and lost at a staggering pace with 10²² atoms[i] being released with every breath...
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