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Employees in Pajamas?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work -
Imagine you are experiencing the worst economic times in recent history. You have just invested in a complete online employee survey program. The results have been painstakingly analyzed and reviewed, and you have a plan for action. Your entire team is scheduled for a nearly unprecedented early morning meeting to give the consulting team ample opportunity to address the issues identified through the survey process and your entire staff shows up ………………in pajamas. Would you be?
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Engage through Imagery
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Astonishing Service, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work -
Simple ideas understood by all are both the salve and the anchors that keep a team’s “eye on the prize” in challenging times. Vineet Nayar in his book Employees First, Customers Second used the story of the “Big Windows” he discovered at a friend’s home in Amsterdam to focus his team on the value (and discomfort) of transparency. He shared this story with absolutely everyone so they all had a common language...
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Is email killing your team’s performance?
December 15, 2021
Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence 
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Atos an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries thinks so and is planning to ban email for internal communications by 2014[i].
What is email waste costing you? According to a survey posted in PRNewswire 25% of “email time” is wasted for a total of 15 days per year. Let’s do the numbers
Total employees X (average annual wage + 15% benefits) X 6% = YIKES!!!
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Parallel systems power creativity and efficiency
December 15, 2021
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It seems that whenever I come up with a revolutionary new idea it only takes a little more research to find someone who had the same insight……before I was even born. This week’s blast from the past comes from Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933). Not only was Mary admired for her smashing hairdo but she was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt as his personal consultant for her expertise as a management theorist... -
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...