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Peer Power Primer December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

How would you create a culture that attracts 1000 applicants for every position like Zappos or grows its customer base fivefold in just four years as HCL Technologies did? Few would expect to learn the secrets of success from a small town credit union in Boulder City, Nevada, or a rural hospital in Southern Arizona, but wouldn’t you like to know how to create a team that can increase assets by 270% while only adding one employee, or how to be so honest with your board that they plead with you...

13 Secrets to an ASTONISHING Keynote December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Keynote Keys, Spirit at Work, Topics, Training

Keynote motivational humorist Randy Morgan

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.” Goethe

Many meetings quickly fade into the background of all the “meaning-less-repeat-what-we-have-already-done-before” dithering if we don’t start new conversations. Use these thirteen steps to make all your messages meaning-full. Don’t try and make people act differently, help them think differently. Encourage new behaviors by starting new conversations.

1. Creating a Buzz

The most successful messages are not thos...

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...

Quick fixes vs Real Results December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

I have been privileged to create many training events for world-class teams over the last 15 years.

I have worked hard to make sure the content has been focused, interactive, educational but for most people the lessons are largely forgotten in a matter of weeks or maybe months.

This was not because the content was lacking or that the effort from participants was insincere, but that there was never a systemic way of continuing the conversations – a process for following through on the ideas intro...

HR: Humane Resources December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Hierarchical designs created before color television

Twenty years ago after creating the new employee “Service Camp” for the Coeur d’Alene Resort I was given the opportunity to move from operations to HR. I loved the possibilities but hated the realities. Too much time limiting liabilities and very little investment in growing resources. (Oh, and I also hated the little office in the back hall.) In the nearly two decades since, I find that for many (not all), little has changed.

There are still far too many resources devoted to protecti...