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Are you winning the rat race?

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligencePeer Powered PerformancePositive DevianceTraining  No comments

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you‘re still a rat.”

Lily Tomlin

Every day is a contest.  We compete for increasing market share, advancing our position, receiving the recognition we deserve, the customers we need and the respect we long for.  But how do we measure our success?  Is there a finish line or benchmark?  Do all stakeholders agree on the metrics?

When Vineet Nayar took the helm of HCLT his greatest challenge was not their failures but their successes...

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NO-NONSENSE NONPROFIT SERVICES

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipAssociation InsightsEmotional Intelligence

In the last fourteen years, Red Shoe Solutions (RSS) has been responsible for planning and directing dozens of large successful events in seventeen U.S. states, Canada and Europe, serving members from over forty nations in total. We select our clients carefully to ensure the highest level of service and the best professional fit. 

Our experienced team provides complete administrative services, consulting and event management for nonprofits who take governance seriously...

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Peer Power Primer

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligencePeer Powered PerformancePositive Deviance

Peer Power Primer

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...

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Should you praise effort or ability?

December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

400 5th graders12 schools

We are torn between two masters.  On one hand we like to learn.  We are born inquisitive, adventurous and unafraid.  Then we are taught that mistakes are bad.  Not only are the mistakes bad but there is obviously something wrong with the person who makes them.  The solution then is to confine ourselves to activities at which we are already proficient and blame other people or situations for everything else.  Problem solved.  Except of course that it isn’t.

Mistakes in fact are physiologically th...

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13 Secrets to an ASTONISHING Keynote

December 15, 2021 Affective LeadershipEmotional IntelligenceKeynote KeysSpirit at WorkTopicsTraining

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...

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