Leaders create working conditions that engage the workforce. Engaged employees create engaged customers fostering organizational success. Effective leadersbalance emotional and mental energy in their teams. They are attuned to the feelings of others creating resonance and help their staff identify and work with their strengths, moving them into emotionally-positive directions.
If conditions exist where roles, responsibilities, authority, accountabilities or expectations are unclear, emotional energy can easily be stymied, giving rise to frustration and result in
- Workflow problems
- Diminished productivity
- Staff disengagement
- Attendance issues
- Project or business failure.
Creating a High Performance Culture
Employee disengagementreflects a lack of applied emotional energy or passion while burnout is a symptom of depleted emotional energy or spent passion.
When effectively guided, passion:
- Intensifies focus
- Activates the mind
- Expands awareness
- Challenges thinking
- Creates excitement and energy and attracts like
and when aligned with purpose, passion:
- Builds courage and conviction
- Confronts fear
- Contributes to creating a culture that encourages learning & discourages blaming…a culture that can give rise to innovative and creative thinking, so critical for corporations and individuals to succeed in an increasingly competitive world.
Measuring Success
Pro-active business leaders recognize coaching as an effective means to help create the internal and external conditions necessary to leverage their human capital and embrace an expanded spectrum of values as well as three critical factors for measuring organizational (and societal) success reflecting the triple bottom line:
- Economic
- Environmental and
- Social.
Commitment to developing emotional intelligence in an increasingly competitive, global economy is definitely a SMART personal and business investment. Learn more
We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Bertrand Russell
About Julia von Flotow
