Archive for Emotional Connection
Dissecting Charisma – The Cliff Notes
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (June 2011)
In our Facing the Leadership Chasm article, we cited multiple key points from Cornell University ILS School’s study “Recognizing Creative Leadership: Can Creative Idea Expression Negatively Relate to Perceptions of Leadership Potential?”, including:
- Creative employees who are perceived as being charismatic ‘have a leg up’ on creative employees who are not perceived as being charismatic; and
- Being creative but not charismatic is a promotional liability.
So if you are creative, which is an asset, how do you:
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Let’s first take a step back and define ‘charisma’. According to Wikipedia, charisma is a “…compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others.” The term is derived from a Greek word meaning ‘favor given’ or ‘gift of grace.’ Charisma can arise from two opposing foundations:
- Honorable, collaborative and authentic
- Dishonorable, manipulative and disingenuous (e.g., narcassism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy)
Our context is the former vs. latter.
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Disengaged Employees – A Case Study
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In our February professional development newsletter A-CHIEVE! , our feature article addressed The Disengagement Epidemic – a pervasive problem impacting approximately 33%+ (or 25 million) of the U.S. workforce resulting in a $416 billion productivity drain (per Gallup). In fact several of you, our newsletter subscribers, reached out to let us know that YOU’RE part of the 33% — either ‘disengaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’. Overwhelmingly our readership asked us “Why doesn’t leadership ‘get it’ and why aren’t they doing anything about it?” One of our readers, let’s call him ‘Jeff’, agreed to be interviewed so we could better understand how an employee could arrive at a place of being ‘actively disengaged’ — which is where Jeff is at. His story is all too familiar.
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The Disengagement Epidemic
Posted by: |Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (February 2011)
How Engaged are You, Your Team and Your Organization?
Did you know that we’re in the midst of a Disengagement Epidemic? According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2010 data, 33% of the workforce is highly disengaged as compared to 20% in 2008 and 10% pre 2008. And they’re not the only ones presenting alarming statistics. Gallup 2010 reports that 33% of employees in world-class organizations are either not engaged or actively disengaged and 67% of employees in average organizations are either not engaged or actively disengaged – which equates to a 1.83:1 ratio of disengaged to engaged employees. Gallup further reports that “more than 25 million people are actively disengaged with their jobs and workplace at a cost to U.S. employers of $416 billion in lost productivity.” But the picture is even worse than that. Gallup 2010 research statistics show that organizations comprised of not engaged or actively disengaged employees additionally experience the following:
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