Randy Morgan CSP tagged posts
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Motivation is Misleading
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 
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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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Energized by Inclusion
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance -
Old school leaders aspire to the belief that
“he who holds the knowledge, holds the power.”The new paradigm is he who holds the knowledge,
and doesn’t share it, is probably guilty.
We would never consider a sporting event without goals, displaying confusing scoreboards or faceless time clocks. Instead feedback is immediate, concise, compelling, and consistently understood by everyone both in the game and on the sidelines.
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In contrast, many work environments are inundated with ambigui... -
Quick fixes vs Real Results
December 15, 2021
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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...
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HR: Humane Resources
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance -
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...
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Illusory Superiority: The Lake Wobegon Effect
December 15, 2021
Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Social Smarts -
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...
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