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Do Peers Perpetuate Poor Performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work 2 comments

This is part three in a five part examination of the forces that keep individuals and institutions caught a cycle of stress trapped by unexamined assumptions and ill designed solutions. Part one examined the role of self in our illusory imprisonment, two the often subconscious part played by supervisors in the continuing incarceration and section three delves into the irresistible influence exerted on us by our peers...

Part 5: Evolving to Peer Power December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence One comment

Peer Powered Performance™ (P³⁾ is a slow system for fast change designed to methodically, consistently and transparently unleash the energy, creativity, resolve and resilience available in every organization. P³ is not a one shot, quick fix, “check this one-off the list” solution, but a process for increasing awareness through education, transparency and collaboration.

Peer Powered Performance™ is not a system for revolution but a process for evolution...

Do you despise Motivational Speakers? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Peer Powered Performance

Despite being in the profession for almost two decades and receiving a designation earned by less than 10% of professional speakers[i] I am uncomfortable introducing myself as a “motivational speaker”. Last week when asked to introduce myself to a class on the value of internal social networks I said; “Most people describe me as a ‘Motivational Speaker’ which simply means I get people excited to hear about things they will forget within the week”...

Are a few BAD APPLES costing you 40% December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

$bad apple$

I always believed that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) education was most effectively addressed as individual sets of skills, but I no longer think that is true. EQ comes in communities. We have all seen very high EQ people behave in very unconscious ways given the right-wrong environment. We have also observed very unconscious people lifted to new levels of awareness simply by being in the presence of those few fearless among us...

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...