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I interviewed Dr Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change at INSEAD, many years ago when I was still testing the RYD Hypothesis that it's only in the integration of Leadership Depth, Business Excellence and Craft Mastery that great leaders and great businesses would be birthed and nurtured. He is a thought leader in the space of Leadership Development who relies heavily on Psychology for developing business leaders and CEOs. He chose to be a psychoanalyst and integrate that into his work. I believe therapy and healing (which is about clearing the past) is directionless without coaching and coaching (which is about creating a bright new future in alignment with our impossible, unimaginable, crazy dreams and making a massive impact) is ineffective without therapy and healing. That is why, we have integrated psychotherapy for our coachees' ongoing inner work to go to dark places within that they don't want to go to and even to dark places within that they didn't even know existed to live in the expression of their undeniable greatness, their Inner Light and realize their highest potential. That is why Centre for Coaching Excellence, an RYD channel of impact for training and developing RYD Coaches, has psychotherapy as part of its Leadership Depth curriculum. In Gear 0, high performing leaders are either: 1) Rescuer Leaders creating dependent, ineffective team members 2) Avoider Leaders creating stressed-out, ineffective team members 3) Critical Fighter Leaders creating under-confident, ineffective team members 4) Victim Leaders creating directionless, ineffective team members Since a leader, a coach and a parent have the same 3 roles to play in order to support their people, coachees and kids to joyously realise their highest potential - nurturer, leader, coach; you can replace leaders with parents or coaches and team members with kids or coachees; the above 4 statements would be equally valid. Here's an interesting article on Rescuer Leaders by Dr Kets de Vries in HBR - The Dangers of Codependent Mentoring Are you a Gear 0 High Performing Leader; or a Peaceful Warrior Super Performing Leader on your Hero's journey from Gear 1 to Gear 5? Raising our consciousness is an endless journey but it is possible to raise one's consciousness all the way to at least Gear 3 before we step into conversations with our team members or kids, irrespective of which gear we may currently be at. That is what Conscious Leadership and Conscious Parenting is all about. Here are few Distinctions with respect to Communicating Powerfully in the World of Others (Gear 3 Leadership Muscle). A Distinction is a distinct point on the Ball of Perspective that give us Power to Create our Reality in alignment with our impossible, unimaginable, crazy dreams. 1. In Gear 1, we relate to our own self as extraordinary. In Gear 2, we relate to other people in our Space as extraordinary. It's only in Gear 3, other people begin to relate to us as extraordinary. All of us want to be in Gear 3 but to get there, one has to go through the fire of Gear 1 and Gear 2. Interestingly, by the time we reach Gear 3, other people admiring us doesn't even matter anymore because we have become an empty space for other people to discover themselves; a channel of impact for people to draw from the Universe through us what would most serve them. 2. Ego is nothing but a human being's self-defense mechanism to protect oneself from the pain of one's own Hole in the Soul: i. I am not good enough. ii. I am not important. iii. I am all alone. No one loves me. Let this understanding support us to be loving kindness to all people in all our conversations because we know the pain of the Hole in our Soul. 3. The 3 growth levers equally exercised supports us in our good to great journey to realize our highest potential - Leadership Depth, Business Excellence and Craft Mastery. As a leader, our job is to support our people to realize their highest potential. By being clear which growth lever is not fully strengthened for our people, we can help them understand the barrier in their growth and help them build their structure of success to maximise their growth and therefore, their happiness and fulfilment. 4. If people are not on their good (Gear 0) to great (Gear 5) journey, they would be operating from Gear 0, from the hole in their soul. Our highest contribution to them would be to raise our consciousness to Gear 4 (Delivering on Our Word leadership muscle) which helps them to step up to Gear 1 (I am extraordinary and I love myself) in our space, helps them to experience their own greatness in our space; supporting them to learn, grow and contribute much more effectively. Gear 4 is the domain of Integrity. Gear 4 is also the domain in which when I say - I believe in you, you will viscerally feel my belief in you. That creates the space for you to step up to Gear 1 in my space. But, if I have broken words in our relationship, it will come in the way for me to step up to Gear 4 in our relationship. So, restoring my broken word to you supports me to step up to Gear 4 in our relationship, which is when I can look straight into your eyes and say - I believe in you; and you will experience my belief in you and relate to your own self as extraordinary. 5. Happiness and Fulfilment is an experience of growth. If we are not growing, we are dying. The highest growth available to us is in realizing our highest potential. We define and, therefore, limit our highest potential by our dream. More impossible, unimaginable, crazy our dream; more growth we have gifted ourselves this lifetime; provided we play the game to realize our dreams. Help people discover their impossible, unimaginable, crazy dream that scares them a bit because if their dream doesn't scare them, then their dream is not big enough. Support them to build a structure of success for realizing their dreams and help them to identify the first tiny step to take from their structure of success. This is a foundation for communicating powerfully in the world of others. My dream is that RYD Circle of Love nurtures 60 Indian businesses to be Fortune Global 100, 300 Indian businesses to be Fortune Global 500 and 1000 Indian Businesses to be Forbes Global 2000 enabling India to be the world's most developed, beautiful, greenest nation; with her citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous in the world. What is your impossible, unimaginable, crazy dream that scares you a bit and yet brings stars to your eyes, joy to your heart, dance to your feet, a song on your lips, peace in your mind, energy to your life and lights up your soul? Dream Big. Create Big. Impact Big 💜 Loving you, j.
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Clarity is scary because then we can no longer blame Confusion for not taking actions that require courage to take. Confusion is our zone of safety because once there is Clarity, we would have to give up the comfort of being busy being busy as we can no longer hide behind Confusion. That is why we avoid reflecting, meditating, learning new ideas and anything else that will slow us down because then Clarity in all its Simplicity will emerge. Better be stressed out fire-fighting than having to face the fact that we don't really have the courage to take the 20% actions that would give us 80% outcomes that we are seeking. Safer and easier to keep running around doing the 80% that would only give us 20% outcomes. That is why developing ourselves as an 80 / 20 Thinker is so tough because the truth is we don't really want to look straight in the eyes of the 20% actions that we necessarily need to take. Better get lost in tactics of today than build the strategy for re-inventing the future. So much safer that way. And, so comforting to know we are working extremely hard. Clarity moves us forward to Joyous Inspiration and Effective Action. But, Joyous Inspiration is scary. Boredom is safer giving us the right to not take difficult, effective actions. Being centred and grounded is scary. Being stressed is way safer because Stress fights Clarity tooth and nail to keep it away. The fact is die we have to. Better die fast building a new future than die slowly surviving. The caterpillar has to die for the butterfly to emerge. What if the caterpillar was scared of dying? Then, it would lose the opportunity to transform into a beautiful butterfly, flying high in the sky of its limitless possibilities. Embrace your undeniable greatness to break free from the cocoon of your fears to let your inner Light shine to make our world a brighter, better, happier place. As you do that, feeling brighter, better, happier will become the place to come from; not a place to endlessly crave for and chase in the world outside. Certainty and Confusion are two sides of the same coin. Beware of both. Certainty will not allow you to see your own assumptions and will block you from travelling to other points on the Ball of Perspective to learn from others what you seek to create - massive impact and, therefore, wealth through building a great business; loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships; happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyously expressed; highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being, Certainty is often a cover-up for Confusion. I am Right (corollary of that is: You are Wrong) is a usual way to protect ourselves from Confusion and the subsequent Overwhelm. Confusion will not allow you to learn, explore and experiment for you to arrive at the Clarity of 20% Actions that will give you 80% Outcomes that you are seeking. Choose Being Curious over Certainty as that will open you up to learn what you need to learn to step into Crystal Clear Clarity on the 20% Powerful Effective Precise Actions that will give you 80% Outcomes. The Light of Curiosity (Gear 3 Thrival Consciousness) will dissolve the the darkness of Certainty, Confusion and Overwhelm (Gear 0 Survival Consciousness). Keep being curious to learn, re-invent yourself and contribute, which will support you to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way. Loving you, j. Why did we lose the World Cup? It’s because of our team’s and our collective small mind consciousness. https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/team-india-lost-world-cup-final-even-before-losing-toss-4595029 That’s the transformation we need as a country - to believe in our undeniable greatness. When we do that, then we can play or lead a business not under pressure and stress to prove ourselves to others and to our own self but from a place of quiet inner joyous confidence. That’s when we can perform consistently at our best. If each one of us takes on transforming our Survival Consciousness (Gear 0) to Thrival Consciousness (Gear 5), from feeling less than to childlike trust in our own greatness, from feeling worthy as an outcome of Success to feeling worthy as a place to come from, from feeling happy as an outcome of success to being happy as a place to come from; we will win world cups and lead our businesses to become Fortune Global 100 with ease and grace. As we raise our consciousness from Gear 0 to Gear 5, we will create space for people around us to raise their consciousness and with that, our kids will joyously realise their highest potential, our organizations will transform from good to great, our communities will transform from good to great, our country will become the world’s most developed, beautiful and greenest nation, with its citizens happiest, healthiest and the most prosperous; and we will win the maximum number of gold medals in Olympics and win every World Cup. Into that heaven of joyous freedom of the Whole Soul, my Father, let my country awake 💜 Loving you, j. Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed. (Reference: Reuters Investigates SpaceX Safety) A great leader (Gear 5 / Level 5) contributes, makes a difference and benefits communities that he / she is impacting directly (employees, customers) and indirectly (society). A mediocre leader (another name for good / Level 4 / Gear 0) causes harm to their people and the world. If our own people are being harmed, our customers can never be served nor the world. But the worst harm that a mediocre leader sadly causes is to their own self. It is the Law of the Universe. We are lucky that in India, this law runs in our blood because of centuries of learning about it. We call it Karma. What you give to others, comes back to you probably many times over. Even a tiny harm done to another - for example, shouting at someone. At the very instance of the shouting, there's anger and upset flowing in our own body which is harming our own self. Heaven and Hell is not beyond this Lifetime. Karma has us experience Heaven and Hell in that very instant in our body. A random act of kindness fills the body with so much joyous fulfilment and that is the experience of Heaven. Hurting someone is an outcome of bitterness / anger / resentment in the body which is the experience of Hell in that instant. A great Leader has the luxury of Having it All. Have It All is not available to a mediocre Leader because success is built at the cost of everything else and success is used to fill the Hole in the Soul. Unfortunately, no amount of success can fill the hole in the Soul because nothing on the outside can fill the hole as only we have access to our Soul. The worst misery in the world is to build vast amounts of success and wealth, and realising that one is still feeling lonely, inadequate, unimportant even as one is standing on top of that huge mountain of success and wealth. Who am I to judge Elon Musk when the whole world is raving about him? Though, I do send him love and blessings to find joy of Having It All. Keep learning, elevating your consciousness and growing to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way. Loving you, j. In Xth grade, I was 165 cms. To my shock, I measured only 160 cms during a routine health check-up when I was pregnant with Anya. I had lost 5 cms in 17 years due to poor posture inspite of regularly waking up in the wee hours of the day to do yoga. A year back, I changed to another yoga teacher, far more experienced, and yet, continues to learn from her own teacher. I measured my height yesterday and my back has strengthened just in one year for me to be standing straighter at 163 cms. I gained 3 cms of height at 50 years of age. Sharing my learnings from here, in case they serve you in some way: 1. Learn from a teacher / mentor / coach who has a teacher / mentor / coach because a great teacher / mentor / coach is a great student for life. 2. Learning from your own experience is not enough because we can never see our own self. We need the luxury and a privilege of a teacher / mentor / coach who has the courage to ongoingly show us the mirror. Without that mirror showing us our blindspots, we don't have the ability to show our students / mentees / coachees / team-members / kids their blindspots and therefore, no ability to support their growth because growth is in response to a blindspot uncovered. A blindspot has to be uncovered by one's own self through skillful coaching of our teacher. A blindspot told remains hidden and is resisted vehemently. 3. It's not enough to do yoga during that one hour in a day as a tick-mark activity. Yoga has to be lived moment by moment. The awareness of mind, body and breath during the yoga practise is required to be carried forth from the class to Life and experienced moment to moment. Today, I have the awareness to catch myself slouching in a coaching session and straighten up in response to that awareness. 4. It's not enough to do an RYD Habit. An RYD Habit is transformative only if the essence of that is practised moment to moment. Do we acknowledge ourselves for 5 minutes in the morning and spend the rest of the day criticising ourselves in our head? Are we writing gratitudes for 5 minutes; and then spend rest of the day being critical of others and being upset with circumstances? 5. In the earlier years of my yoga practise, I didn't have mind, body and breath awareness even during the yoga class. Yoga is a journey like any other RYD transformative practice. It bears fruit only if practised consistently over a period of time and letting its essence flow from the practice to Life. Keep learning, contributing and growing to joyously lead yourself and your businesses from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜 Loving you, j. Having It All is a measure of Leadership Depth and is a journey till we reach Gear 5 Consciousness, raising ourselves one Gear at a time from Gear 0 to Gear 5. Having It All is winning the gold medal in the Olympics of Life. It's in Gear 5, happiness becomes a place to come from instead of as a reaction to our ever-changing circumstances. Having It All is having i. Deeply fulfilling, successful, profitable business supporting us to live our purpose of life; gifting us with impact, contribution and financial freedom AND ii. Loving, harmonious, positive, uplifting relationships at work and at home AND iii. Happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed AND iv. Nourishing, nurturing ourselves to the highest level of health, fitness and joyous well-being - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual AND v. Making a massive difference through the work we do Not, one at the cost of the other. Breakdowns will happen along the way because that is the design of Life. Our consciousness will strengthen and rise if we use every breakdown as an opportunity to learn, make a bigger difference as an outcome of the learning and break through the barrier that caused the breakdown. The specific breakdown will point us in the direction of what we are meant to learn to break through. If business results are not coming, it's time to step back and reflect to learn what can create business results in alignment with our intentions. And, then apply the learnings to transform the area. If health is failing, it's time to step back and reflect to learn what can create better health in alignment with our intentions. And, then apply the learnings to transform the area. If relationships are failing, it's time to step back and reflect to learn what can create more loving, harmonious relationships in alignment with our intentions. And, then apply the learnings to transform the area. If kids are failing to live from our family values, it's time to step back and reflect to learn what do we need to do to create a space for happy, healthy, responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed in alignment with our intentions. And, then apply the learnings to transform the area. If work feels meaningless and directionless, it's time to step back and reflect to learn what is our Purpose and build our business in alignment with that to increase our impact. A Helpless Victim in the face of a Breakdown will break down. A Dictatorial Fighter will use brute force to fight the Breakdown at the cost of his relationships, kids, health and well-being. In the beginning, it will feel like as if the Fighter is winning the battle against the Breakdown. But, ultimately the Fighter will break down after the Fight because no one is left to fight. An Over-functioning Super Hero Martyr will use all her hours to do all the work that everyone else is supposed to do. In the beginning, there will be a satisfaction of being busy being busy. But, ultimately the Over-functioning Super Hero Martyr will break down with mental, emotional and spiritual exhaustion. Usually, we keep cycling between these 3 roles which are an expression of our Hole in the Soul, small mind. These roles do not allow us to live our Purpose; or to re-architect our business, our relationships, our health because of the fear of the unknown. Stressful Present is better than the Unknown, however Better it may be. It takes Courage to break free from this Vicious Cycle and create a New Future. And, without that Courage, all we have is a heart that has forgotten to sing, a mind which knows not where to find peace, lips that have forgotten to smile, feet that drag instead of dance to the music of life. Let's all break free from the Vicious Cycle of the Hole in the Soul to continue our journey as Peaceful Warriors with Confidence, Courage and Commitment to together create a Brave New World for ourselves and our kids 💜 Loving you, j. Most businesses die a slow death which means they are dying and don't even know it because they are focussed on fire-fighting without solving for the real reason for the fires that continuously show up all the time. And, the leader at the helm of the organisation is super busy being super busy to solve for the problems of today without realising that if she / he is not actively creating the future, there will be no future to lead the business towards. Mediocre businesses fight fires; while great businesses experience fun, fulfilment, freedom as they go about their day making a difference to their employees and their customers. Here are one or more of these diseases that a fire-fighting business may be suffering from: 1. Aimnolesia - Suffering from aimlessness and purposelessness. The business leader has a mistaken belief their purpose is to make money, not realising that humans power businesses and what brings the best out of people is when they are working for a cause. In the words of Richard Branson (Founder, Virgin Group through which he started and controls more than 400 companies with annual turn-over USD 21 Billion) - Being purpose driven (replace with purpose inspired) provides a company the competitive edge, staff confidence and strong innovation. Recent research at Harvard shows that companies with a ‘higher purpose’ are more than three times as likely to retain their employees. Deloitte found that companies with a strong sense of purpose were almost twice as likely to be confident about business growth in both the short and long term. Recovery protocol: Discover your own purpose, be lit up with it and make that the rallying point for your team. Purpose, Core Values and BHAG is the foundation, and the magic pill. 3HAG is a good maintenance framework. 2. Chasolesia: Businesses who suffer from this disease chase their customers endlessly in an exhausting run and continually blame the market conditions or the incapability of their own people for their fate of negative downward spiral of dwindling revenue and profits. Recovery protocol: Surgical procedures like Business Model Canvas, Blue Ocean Strategy and Verne Harnish's 7 strata in combination with each other are known to provide 100% recovery rates. 3. Mistakophonia: Businesses who once had a profitable business model live with the mistaken belief that the same old business model will lead them to their glorious future. Business Models are iterative and designed to evolve with the evolving market conditions and customer needs. Businesses who suffer from this disease can't wrap their heads around why they are not successful anymore and continue to fire-fight waiting for the market to turn-around which never does. Recovery protocol: Same as Chasolesia. The surgical procedure is like the Enema to be administered at regular intervals. 4. Strugglofia - These businesses have found a profitable business model but struggle to bring in the discipline of relentless repeatability and execution excellence. This is a disease because of lack of growth habits. Businesses fail to recognise that like human beings, businesses need growth habits to be disease-free. Recovery Protocol: Rockefeller Habits 5. Constopia: The Business is constipated with all organs of the business choking - People, Strategy, Execution, Cash. Recovery Protocol: Hurry, bring in Scaling-up before it's too late. Wishing you, your families and your businesses A Very Happy Dusshera and Joyous Well-being 🎉 Love and Light, j. Coming back after a golf game of 18 yesterday. Best Friends again after 23 years, a joy hard-earned. We went through a roller-coaster of a life together. He lost his hair. I turned grey. Best friends again because he is no longer critical and I am no longer sensitive; thanks to our own individual inner journeys of coming home to our own self that our hole in the soul is no longer expected to be filled up by the other. I used to hate playing golf with him before. He was constantly back seat golfing me during our games. But, I loved our game yesterday. We were both encouraging and appreciative of each other’s game. He had invited me to join his boys group for golf, which he has never done before. I guess he hated playing with me before as much as I hated playing with him. My sister asked me the other day - How is it going with Addy? The first words that came to me were - ease and grace. We had to go through our hell-hole to reach our paradise, which is even now being continuously constructed together. I know I created that hell-hole because good was not good enough for me. I could have accepted As-Is and strolled through life comfortably. I created more Breakdowns because I challenged the Status-Quo in my relationship with Aditya, in my relationship with my parents, in my relationship with kids, in my relationship with my sisters, in the area of my health, in my Business - in search for Greatness which means Greater Fulfilment. I fell numerous times, flat on my face but every fall gave me clues on how to step-up to break through to the next level. I am grateful that I can see how much more I have to grow. I am happy and grateful to be on a never-ending journey of Mastery. More I learn and contribute, more I realize my potential, greater the impact I become a channel of. If the journey is exhausting me, I know it is because I have fallen back to Gear 0. So, I get up and climb up to higher states of consciousness through personal inner work supported by my coaches. In Gear 0, FEAR is - Forget Everything and Run (usually by doing something that helps you escape experiencing the fear) In Gear 1 and above - FEAR is Face Everything and Rise. I am deeply grateful to my coaches who continue to hold Space for me to keep joyously walking on my endless, deeply fulfilling journey from good to great. Keep walking, one step at a time, to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around you; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜 Love and Light, j. Things happen when we are little children. At that age, we don't have the emotional understanding to process the pain. So, we push the unprocessed painful emotions under the carpet.
But, we have now become adults. Childhood memories may have blurred. The only thing that remains is the impact of the unprocessed emotions - relationships that don't fulfil, lack of spontaneity, disconnection with one's own self, lack of authentic self-expression, inability to love and to receive love, experiencing the emotions from long ago of hurt, sadness, anger, shame that unfortunately now get projected on people around us. We think the emotions we are feeling are because of people around us, without realising that the emotions are already within us and all that the people around us did was to bring them back into our awareness. The worst impacted of our unprocessed childhood emotions are our children and the painful cycle continues from generation to generation. We do everything possible to not feel these emotions - over-work thinking achievement will take away the pain, consume intoxicants to distract ourselves away from that pain, consume more and more information thinking more learning will fill the hole, allow social media and devices to deaden us, over-eat, over-do for the cacophony of action to deafen the whispers of the little hurt girl or boy within us who only needs our unconditional love and acceptance to feel safe and soothed. Instead, we become the critical parent to that little girl or the little boy within us. Only when we can love, approve, appreciate and care for ourselves for the little girl or the little boy inside of us to feel our love, approval, appreciation and care (Gear 1); only then our children, our spouse and others in our space can feel our love, approval, appreciation and care for them (Gear 2). Only then can we communicate powerfully in the world of others for them to be open to our proposals (Gear 3). Only then, can the light in us see the light in others and others experience our belief in their undeniable greatness which has the power to transform them (Gear 4). Only then, there is ease and grace in fulfilling our intentions, realizing our dreams, bending reality in alignment with our impossible, unimaginable vision, and having it all (Gear 5). As we raise our human consciousness (Leadership Depth) by filling the hole in our soul with our spiritual values, transforming the darkness of the limiting thoughts in our mind to the light of the limitless thoughts, filling the emptiness in our heart with loving kindness, dissolving the dis-ease in our bodies to step into joyous well-being through RYD transformative practises, we become the greatest version of ourselves. Business is our playground to play the game of leading ourselves from good to great. The journey of Business Excellence allows us the opportunity to live our purpose through our work. As we travel the journey of Business Excellence to lead our business from good to great in service of our customer and employee communities, our consciousness gets raised. As we learn with the intention to serve and contribute (Craft Mastery), our consciousness gets raised. We experience ourselves as whole and complete as we are right now. We experience others as whole and complete as they are right now. We experience life as whole and complete as it is right now. We experience love, joy, equanimity and loving kindness, moment to moment. It's a journey worth travelling - however difficult it may seem, how many times we may fall off the path, how much it may feel we are not progressing because mastery is in being on the journey inspite of the difficulties, coming back to the path every time we fall off and continuing to travel even when we feel we are not progressing. Keep travelling to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way 💜 Love and Light, j. Key Insights from the article:
https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-company-culture-shapes-employee-motivation 1. Total Motivation of employees (a measure of stronger workplace culture) increases customer satisfaction, revenues and profitability. 2. Play, Purpose and Potential increase Total Motivation of employees. i. Play: When you are motivated by the work itself. You work because you enjoy it. Play is our learning instinct, and it’s tied to curiosity, experimentation, and exploring challenging problems. ii. Purpose: When you work because you value the impact you are creating through your work. iii. Potential: When the work you do enhances your potential. 3. Holding a Weekly Meeting with your team increases Total Motivation of employees when you include the below 3 questions directed at encouraging Play, Purpose and Potential: a. Play (working for the joy of working): What did I learn this week? b. Purpose (making a difference): What impact did I have this week? c. Potential (becoming the greatest version of myself): What do I want to learn next week? 4. Emotional pressure, economic pressure and inertia reduce employee motivation. i. Emotional pressure: Using fear, peer pressure and shame to get work done, working because of fear of negative impact of not getting the work done. When you do something to avoid disappointing yourself or others, you’re acting on emotional pressure. ii. Economic pressure: When an external force makes you work. You work to gain a reward (money) or avoid a punishment. iii. Inertia: When you ask someone why they are doing their work, and they say, “I don’t know; I’m doing it because I did it yesterday and the day before,” that signals inertia. You are doing all the tasks but you just can’t explain why. 5. A high-performing culture maximises the play, purpose, and potential felt by its people; and minimises the emotional pressure, economic pressure, and inertia. This is known as creating total motivation (ToMo). 6. A century of research has proven what many intuitively know: why you work determines how well you work. 7. Six Questions that help measure the Total Motivation of Employees on a scale between 1 (strongly disagree) and 7 (strongly agree): i. I continue to work at my current job because I believe the work has an important purpose. ii. I continue to work at my current job because this type of work will help me reach my personal goals. iii. There is no good reason why I continue to work at my current job. iv. I continue to work at my current job because the work itself is fun to do. v. I continue to work at my current job because without this job I would be worried I couldn't reach my financial objectives. vi. I continue to work at my current job because if I didn't, I would disappoint myself or people I care about. (https://app.vegafactor.com/take_the_survey) 8. What processes in an organisation affect culture? i. Role design ii. Organisation's Purpose and Core Values iii. Performance Systems where employees are stack-ranked or rated against each other will increase emotional and economic pressure, reducing total motivation and thus performance Leadership Depth would make you care about your people and have the courage to make changes in the organisational culture with the intention to contribute to your people than with the intention to make more money. With what intention you drive culture transformation in your organisation will determine how successful you would be in making it happen. Craft Mastery would bring the joy of learning in your organisation, one of the key contributors in increasing Total Motivation - yours and your people. Business Excellence through Rockefeller Habits would ensure you implement best-in-class proven processes that would support to maximise the Total Motivation of your employees. Keep playing the Great Game of Business using the 3 Growth Levers (Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery, Business Excellence) to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun along the way 💜 Love and Light, j. |
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