The Neuroscience of Trust
Companies are twisting themselves into knots to empower and challenge their employees. They’re anxious about the sad state of engagement, and rightly so, given the value they’re losing. Consider Gallup’s meta-analysis of decades’ worth of data: It shows that high engagement—defined largely as having a strong connection with one’s work and colleagues, feeling like a real contributor, and enjoying ample chances to learn—consistently leads to positive outcomes for both individuals and organizations. The rewards include higher productivity, better-quality products, and increased profitability.
Wellness Starts In the Mind
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
How Do You Build Resiliency?
Just as we learn how to walk, or ride a bike, or become proficient in our carriers, we can learn the skills that make us more resilient. To start building your resiliency, try out the following strategies:
Assess Your Performance
For a limited time, we are offering this new self-assessment for you to identify your top 3 and bottom 3 performance capabilities.
Prepare – Perform – Recover – Evolve
Dan Dworkis MD PhD, an emergency room physician, author of The Emergency Mind and host of the Emergency Mind Podcast talks about four key elements to performing at the highest level on a continual basis.
Prepare them to win.
“When you know what to think you are ready to compete. When you know how to think you are ready to win.”
Dare to Dream
Today, I want to encourage you to have fun by expanding your dreams (as in your wishes and desires, not what happens while you’re sleeping).
Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership
Organizations not only want, but they expect their leaders to have core skills and competencies to improve organizational effectiveness (Charan & Drotter, & Noel, 2010). Emotional intelligence has been identified as an essential skill for effective leaders (Bar-On, 1997; Boyatzis, 2008; Goleman, 1998b).
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Prudence is one of the four cardinal virtues and one of the 30 Magnus Virtues that reflects acting cautiously and wisely in administering the authority of your office while making morally correct decisions, even under pressure. Prudence impacts performance.
Resilience
You have probably heard the phrase, the world is your oyster. If you are like me you may have heard the phrase without knowing what it means. The phrase means that you are in a position to take opportunities that life has to offer.
The Journey Beyond Fear
The pandemic certainly intensified the fear of many, but my book suggests that fear was increasingly spreading around the world well before the pandemic emerged – at the highest levels of organizations, on the front lines and out in the community.
Ways to Strengthen Resiliency
If I had to sum up in one sentence what I have learned from sitting with so many patients in my office over the course of 25 years, it would be this: More than anything, the human spirit is remarkably resilient. This year has only reinforced that realization for me.
10 Reasons Why Teams Need Emotional Intelligence
Teamwork is very popular and a necessity in organizations, but it is an unnatural act that takes a strategy, discipline, and practice. Most organizations talk about teamwork and put a group of workers together and say, “You are a team now." Duly formed, the team is marched out onto the field to succeed or fail.