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Positive Leadership Challenges Kartenset

    

Das Positive „Leadership Challenges“ Kartenset von mir & Marcus Schweighart💡💡unterstützt Dich dabei, ein vertieftes Verständnis von „Positive Leadership“ zu entwickeln und Dein alltägliches Führungsverhalten  zu reflektieren.

In 52 Impulsen (Challenges) erhält Du konkrete Tipps in den 8 Kategorien Stärken, Vertrauen, Positive Kommunikation, Positive Kultur, Mindset, Resilienz, Sinn sowie dem Führungsmodell der Positiven Psychologie PERMA-Lead.

Preis: 39,00 € incl. MwSt zzgl. Versandkosten.
Mein Kollege Marcus Schweighardt hat sie noch auf Lager: hbc shop

Positiv Führen – Mitarbeitergespräche – Tipps von Experten

 

In Kooperation mit meinen Kollegen aus dem Netzwerk für Positive Leadership ist eine wie ich finde inspirierende Sammlung an Tipps für stärkeorientierte Mitarbeitergespräche entstanden. Vielen Dank an Christian Thiele und Marcus Schweighardt für die Initiative.

Es sind andere Zeiten als sonst. Da könnte man als Führungskraft doch auch die Jahresgespräche anders führen als sonst, oder? Und da könnten wir Trainer*innen und Coaches doch auch mal auf andere Weise Ratschläge geben als sonst, oder?
Also haben wir uns zusammengetan, 9 Expertinnen und Fachmänner für Positive Leadership und Positive Psychologie, haben gehirnt – und geben hier einige Tipps für das Mitarbeitergespräch. In alphabetischer Reihenfolge:

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Vorbereitung

Tipp: Nimm Dir die Zeit, um vorher über die Stärken und Ressourcen Deines Mitarbeiters nachzudenken. Sie zu kennen und für Euer Gespräch bewusst zu haben, ist sowohl wertvoll für Dein konkretes Feedback als auch, um gemeinsam passende Ziele zu setzen. Reflektiere auch im Vorfeld, wie Deine eigenen Stärken Deine Wahrnehmung und Deine Gesprächsführung beeinflussen könnten.

Hintergrund: Re-engineering Performance Management, BEN WIGERT, PH.D., AND JIM HARTER, PH.D.

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Keeping up your energy while talking into space

With returning to a hard lockdown in many countries to help control the big surge in coronavirus, working from home continues. Therefore, good habits in connecting and communicating in person with others are crucial for both our well-being and productivity. Have a look at my article from May 2020. It has obviously lost nothing of its topicality.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/keeping-up-your-energy-while-talking-space-silke-cramer/

Let’s start with the positive. Video calls and other communication tools have enabled social connections to flourish across the globe in ways that would have been unthinkable not so long ago. They allow us to build and maintain relationships and collaborate remotely. These communication tools bring us together to learn, to comfort each other and to find creative ideas together. Above all, they can undoubtedly foster a strengthening and peaceful togetherness in us which is so much needed. So imagine, if we didn’t have these tools now?What would our lockdown world look like?

Despite all of the positive effects of digital interfaces, many of us are feeling like we are still not thriving as much as we thought, even though we have digital human-to-human interaction.

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5 Key Ingredients for a Successful Diversity & Inclusion Strategy

This is our latest article from my partner at strengths circle and me on how you can successfully capitalize on individual strengths and differences, make people flourish and your organization thrive.
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How can organizations create an environment in which everyone with the capability to excel can do so and feel safe and appreciated?

We at Strengths Circle have worked with many leaders across different industries and countries and we know diversity only really works when we can create a truly inclusive work environment that allows employees to be their authentic selves, work in their strengths and therefore reach their full potential. Based on our many years of experience, we have gathered the following 5 key ingredients to make your diversity & inclusion strategy sustainable:

1. Always start with your top and cascade down: 

Always, always start with your top leadership team. Driving a successful diversity strategy begins with the senior leaders as it’s them who have to ask the right questions for the company and set the tone. Specifically, they need to understand the competitive components that build future success in their organization, and how to attract and retain people who can bring different strengths, thoughts, opinions, backgrounds, cultures and approaches to their market. The top leadership team needs to understand, support and be a role model in living the company’s D&I strategy.

In practical terms this means: Make sure D&I sits at the core of your company’s business strategy and is an essential part of your decision-making processes. Actively involve all top leaders right from the beginning when rolling out any initiatives such as training

2. Know your business case and what’s at stake:

If you want other people’s buy-in – actually, if you want your own buy-in, particularly for when it’s time for some tough business decisions, you really need to understand what your organization’s business case for diversity and inclusion is. How it matters not just for the company overall but also how it connects to your very own business objectives, to the ones of your department as well as to your team’s. Only if you and your employees truly understand the cost of failing at this, can you start to expect real commitment.

In the future of work, diversity will not be an option, but an imperative to sustain in our global, fast paced economy, where never just one person owns and knows the truth.

 3. Build on your people’s strengths:

Adopting a strengths-based approach means shifting the focus from fixing problems and weaknesses to building on people’s energizing strengths and identifying opportunities to leverage them. In doing so, the leaders need to have a realistic picture of their own strengths and skill sets first before identifying, recognizing and developing their people’s strengths.

The differences and strengths of others are potential drivers of change. The more opinions, the more variety, and the more diversity we bring to the table the more we can unchain our creativity, which is hidden in every one of us.

We believe that diversity in recruiting and development will increase if the focus is on strengths.

4. Create a culture of psychological safety:

Psychological safety means that people in a work environment feel safe to put oneself on the line by asking questions or help, seeking and giving tough feedback, admitting a mistake and owning up to it – or proposing new ideas. You feel you can trust others around you, others trust you and your ideas and inputs are appreciated.

Psychological safety shows real accountability and ownership. It doesn’t mean we have to be all friends and it’s always just a cosy, cuddly atmosphere. No, it means we are comfortable with the uncomfortable because every single team member feels appreciated and listened to. It’s not an easy fare to create such a culture in your team and wider organization. Only too often, leaders don’t take the time or have the courage to unearth unspoken emotions within a team, build trust and ensure that everyone’s opinion is equally heard. This is the key for innovation and inclusion.

5.  Be aware of your mental filters and de-bias your decision making:

A D&I strategy isn’t just all about unconscious bias training but it can’t work without it either. If we want to create a truly inclusive culture and retain and attract diverse talent, we do have to understand and counterbalance our biases. Our biases don’t just impact our decisions concerning other people but any (business) decisions we take on a daily basis. If we want to be better prepared to make sounder decisions in the VUCA world we live, we need to continue to dig deep and incessantly increase our awareness of our personal biases and how they affect our decision-making.  We have to equip ourselves and our people with the right tools to recognise and mitigate that impact.

Judgment, preaching and pointing fingers have often proven to be counterproductive. Instead we need to be curious, listen to understand, and ask the right questions to open people’ s minds and help them change perspective.

What do you do to create an inclusive work environment that enables your people to excel and feel appreciated? We’d love to hear about your key ingredients to success.

Silke Cramer & Inka Kretschmer – For more on what we do at Strengths Circle, please visit www.strengthscircle.com

Deutsche Vorstände 2018: Mehr Thomasse als Frauen

In Deutschlands Unternehmensspitzen dominiert nach wie vor eine männliche Monokultur. Das geht aus dem aktuellen Allbright-Bericht hervor, einer politisch unabhängigen und gemeinnützigen Stiftung mit Sitz in Stockholm und in Berlin.

Der Zuwachs an Frauen in den Vorständen der 160 deutschen Börsenunternehmen war im vergangenen Jahr so gering, dass er in etwa dem gleichzeitigen Zuwachs an Männern entspricht, die Thomas heißen. An den Unternehmensspitzen dominiert eine männliche Monokultur, die sie nicht abzuschütteln vermögen: Thomas rekrutiert Thomas und der wiederum einen Thomas, der ihm sehr ähnlich ist; am 1. September 2018 sind 92 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder Männer. Von der Vielfalt in der deutschen Gesellschaft kommt in diesen Führungsetagen wenig an.

Zwar gab es im vergangenen Jahr eine Verbesserung des Frauenanteils in den Vorständen der mittelgroßen Unternehmen des MDAX von 3,8 auf 6,8 Prozent, doch in den großen DAX-Konzernen, bislang der stärkste Veränderungsmotor, stagniert der Anteil mit 13,4 Prozent auf Vorjahresniveau. Die Unternehmen fallen damit im internationalen Vergleich immer weiter zurück: In den USA und Schweden ist der Frauenanteil in den Vorständen schon jetzt doppelt so hoch und er wächst dort wesentlich schneller.

Hier kann der Bericht als PDF heruntergeladen werden.

Close relationships make people happy

Harvard

Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier.

„Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives, the Harvard study revealed. Those ties protect people from life’s discontents, help to delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes.“ – Robert Waldinger, Harvard Grant Study

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Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

“Cultivating braver and more daring leaders”

Vulnerability, clarity of values, trust, and rising skills are the four pillars of courageous leadership according to Brené Brown. With this, uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure are essential to a successful entrepreneur journey. Based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, Brené Brown is showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”

Deep Work by Cal Newport

“Let your mind become a lens: Dealing with the daily distractions and getting back to deep and focused work”

Cal Newport has some valuable advice about how to relearn the ability of deep work.
The thesis is that deep work is both rare and valuable in today´s world. A lot seems to be common sense but, as Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar says about common sense in one of his Ted Talks about “Happiness”, it may be common sense but it is evidently not „common“.

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The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

. . . About The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor

Success follows Happiness! When we are happy, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This discovery has been repeatedly shown by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. Shawn Achor wrote a compelling book . . . .

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