EQIQ Blog
We hope you will agree: there is a wealth of useful information in the following blogs. If you go to the oldest posts, you will see we have been, for a long time, covering topics around heart-centered leadership and the liberation of purpose, passion and power of teams and organizations. The specifics of world events and your industry's challenges may change, but the key leadership tools and practices remain the same.
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Courage in the Valley of Death
A digital version of Staub's timeless book for leaders, this easy read offers tools and insights on how to courageously face change and new beginnings.
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Mental Flexibility: The Secret to Leadership Resiliency
The key here is to develop greater mental and emotional flexibility. Without that ability to flex without breaking, to bend with the currents of change without getting up rooted, an individual, a leader, a team or an organization can collapse, fall apart or lose their way.
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Bring the Whole Person to Work
Do what you do with all of yourself. In fact, in the challenges before us, we can not afford anything less. When it comes to addressing complex challenges, dealing with rapid change, being more innovative and getting more with less, we need the richness, intelligence and full engagement of everyone around us.
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Poetry & Innovation
The challenge for all leaders and teams is how to both deal with rapid discontinuities AND how to become more innovative. The enemy to both is “old ways of thinking” and old forms of communicating, connecting and relating that limit human potential, imagination and capacity.
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Protection, Permission and Power
One of my greatest mentors was Dr. Martin Groder who had been a student of Dr. Eric Berne, the father of Transactional Analysis. Marti had both an MD in Psychiatry and also an MBA, working in a Clinical Practice as well as Consulting with CEOs and Senior teams. He […]
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The Power of Attention
Knowing what to focus on, where to put your attention and how to observe are essential behaviors to develop if you wish to become more effective not only at work but in life overall.
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Leaders Set the Example
Leaders engage active follower-ship by vitalizing attention through bringing life to the collective imagination.
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Leadership Is the Tone Of Heart
We do not lead from the head – trying to engage others solely through intellect is like trying to light a piece of paper with the picture of a candle. It is the tone and quality of our hearts speaking to, engaging the hearts of others that determines the passion and quality of how others follow.
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Effective Communication: Closing Feedback Loops
The failure to close the feedback loop so that the communication can flow into meaningful directions and actions, leaves those asked for input out in the cold. The result of this leadership failure is either anxiety or cynicism leading to a decreased state of motivational readiness as well as less overall employee engagement.
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Accountability
To increase accountability and performance levels requires taking a systematic approach. “Systemic Accountability” as I have termed it consists of 4 broad aspects or drivers. The essence of accountability is not to be found in “controlling” others or in trying to coerce behavior from them. In fact, coercion and force drive a higher level of CYA (cover your ass-ets) and minimize accountability.
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Leading In Possibility
Leadership focuses minds by engaging hearts by challenging old limitations in thinking, in perceiving, in working and relating. Leaders are dealers in the currency of possibility.
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Essential Behaviors
Essential behaviors are the actions we take as well as the practices we engage in that connect most powerfully with others and make the greatest positive difference in the results we get in life, whether at home or at work.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 8: Listening to Learn
Listening to Learn is informed by the simple observation that we have two ears and one mouth. If we can learn to listen at least twice as much as we talk, we have automatically increased out effectiveness. Yet, the process of actively listening to learn has a few more skills associated with it.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 7: Systemic Accountability
To the extend there is fear around being shamed or blamed for undesired outcomes, we will create cultures in our organization and behavior in individuals of denial, finger-pointing to deflect the blame, defensiveness to corrective feedback, sweeping things under the carpet and a lot of CYA.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 6: The Courage to be Vulnerable
The Courage to Be Vulnerable means that you let people know that you need them, that you need their inputs, ideas, insights and concerns. Vulnerability means that you have the strength to ask for help, to admit you don’t know and that you can’t do it all by yourself.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 5: Tough Love
Tough-Love is the capacity to have the courageous, difficult conversations, to hold self and others to account, while doing it in a respectful, caring and engaging tone and manner.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 4: Invitation
In the long run, invitation is infinitely more powerful than coercion. If you want to become even more powerfully effective, then you need to learn to invite others to join with you.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – Step 3: Drawing the Larger Circle
Thinking about and practicing drawing the larger circle, the bigger framework helps you to become someone who creates winning solutions with others, increasing your influence, personal power and the willing engagement of others so that you can be even more of a wholehearted leader and power in this world.
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Effectiveness 3.0 – The First Two Steps
Here are two foundational steps to becoming more effective and a “force of nature” in your relationship and interactions.
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