Building on my last post, I would like to introduce a tool that can help leaders implement New Leadership’s two key principles: setting clear boundaries, and giving people autonomy within them. One of the most intriguing…
New Leadership, Part 5: Setting Boundaries and Giving Space
In my last post, I discussed the ‘pecking order’ mentality that can often subconsciously drive our behaviors. I wrote about how these learned, yet unconscious and emotionally-guided behaviors often keep us from letting employees (and ourselves)…
New Leadership, Part 4: The Struggle For Your Place in the Pecking Order, The Origin of Behavior
I’ve introduced the three underlying principles of New Leadership. The idea that employees are autonomous, meaningful partners, driven by the natural desire to behave according to these natural ways of being. And yet, across our organizations,…
New Leadership, Part 3: The Core Values and Beliefs of New Leadership
My last article suggested a different approach to motivation, driven by intrinsic factors and our innate tendencies towards purpose and autonomy. Using a few examples, I illustrated the ways that protecting others’ self-esteem with respect is…
New Leadership, Part 2: Relighting the fire; Do we really try?
In my previous blog, I looked at how the two previous centuries have been characterized by certain beliefs about motivation. Most commonly, that rewarding, punishing, or giving people attention was ‘the best’ way to motivate them….
New Leadership, Part 1: The Challenge!
Good leadership means knowing how to motivate people for optimal performance. Or at least, this seemed to be the main paradigm for the 20th century. In the 21st century, however, ‘good leadership’ should, in my opinion,…
Part 8: Brain-Friendly Leadership Tips
As we bring this change and emotions series to a close, I would like to share 3 final brain-friendly leadership tips. Please feel free to share your thoughts with me! 7. Co-create as much as possible….
Part 7: Consequences for Leadership – Tips
4. When leading change, use arguments, facts and examples that engage the emotions. You can talk for a long time about our ever-changing world and the impact on your organization, but if your information is not…
Change and emotions: Part 6: Consequences for Leadership
Insight from new research on the workings of our brain is crucial to becoming an effective leader, and building productive, happy organizations. In this article, we give three practical leadership tips to make sure that you…
Change and emotions Part 5: Behaviour is Key: The Leadership Compass
When using the leadership compass, it is important to highlight the following key points (practical examples follow in the next part of these articles): The difference between inside, outside and other side. In my experience, it…