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Conversation Vs Communication December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

This is based another enlightening IdeaCast

How Effective Leaders Talk (and Listen)

It is directed toward big business but the difference between communications and conversations are critical to every relationship.

Can of worms Most GOOD organizations including nonprofit associations focus on good communication to their members or employees.

GREAT organizations understand that engagement is not engendered by being good at communicating outwardly but by being thoroughly invested in listening intently.

When...

# 1 factor in millennial job selection December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work No comments

People and culture fit are the #1 factors in choosing what company to work for according to a survey of 15,000 Millennials reported in How Companies Can Attract the Best College Talent by Sanjeev Agrawal. The View From Behind the Workplace Flexibility Curve echoed that sentiment with the admonition that culture includes the ability to work when and where they are most productive.

If Millennials can’t find flexibility in your workplace
they will find it or build it themselves.

Allow employe...

Leading-Edge Leadership December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

The days of top down “Anything” are over. The choice for everyone is evolution or extinction and those with the best ideas for improvement are closest to the customer. Those on the leading edge of of the customer interaction are the only ones who experience the disconnections. “Being There” is the key to improving care.

Whether you are a struggling start-up, heritage hierarchy or as ginormous as Google everyone deserves an opportunity to “tweak the tension”...

Predictive Index, Total Transparency or Circle of Scholars December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Training No comments

Inspired by the April 16th HBR Management Tip of the Day: Ask Your “Loving Critics” for Real Feedback adapted from To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask” by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner.

I respectfully disagree with the recommendation. These esteemed authors seem incredibly kind of when they say “subordinates are often more reluctant” to point out deficiencies in their supervisors...

If you want to really be happy, learn to do less. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work No comments

Lasting change is not the result of some new “to do” on our already too long list. The change we seek is not found in doing more, but surprisingly the secret is found in learning to do less.

If we want to really be happy (and who in their right mind would say they don’t) we need to let go of our compulsion to judge, attack, blame, regret, be right, and most of all our belief that choosing to be unhappy is a necessary even moral obligation...