Love in the workplace
Is your workplace positive and loving? Does the question make you flinch? The word love is reserved for the private space. It is a taboo at work. But that doesn't…
Involving and empowering others
Today, let's focus on developing a positive, productive culture from a leading position, so you can involve more others than as an individual positive agent. How could you work with…
I love Liberating Structures
If you really want a positive culture and extraordinary meetings, I recommend the Liberating Structures (LS), developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless. LS focus on changing routine habits of…
Positive Energizers
Individually, you can influence people to be more positive. When you do this in a conscious effort with a group, not only can you influence more others but you can…
What do you ask to influence others?
In our culture of telling, to ask can be judged as ignorance while leaders are supposed to know what to do. Telling is expected and respected. And it feels so…
Being Positive
Guest post by Graham Williams. “The frames our minds create define – and confine – what we perceive to be possible. Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find…
What does your body say?
If you suspect that you might need to clean up some emotional issues before you can be an authentic person at work - Steve Sisgold is your man. In his…
How is your energy?
In The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwarz write that managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance. To be engaged, we must be energized…
What are you grateful for?
Gratitude has been found to increase individual and group performance and leads to positive behaviors. Paying gratitude visits (to say thank you), writing gratitude letters and keeping a gratitude journal…
Why and how positivity pays off
Professor Kim Cameron wrote “Positive Leadership - Strategies for extraordinary performance”, a concise guide that contains compelling research on the effects of Positive Leadership. It’s inspiring to see this collection…
Book Review: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
Ora et labora: the twin pillars of monastic work are of equal importance. For a Trappist monk work is a form of prayer and prayer is a form of work.…
Deep Democracy Workshop to Transform Challenges: dare you to kiss a frog?
Deep Democracy is a fascinating approach to both personal and organization development. Join me as I join this wonderful workshop to learn more... Kiss a frog? Ugh! It’s natural for…