The Giant Cost of Faking Feedback
by Alain Hunkins, reprinted from Pioneer Leadership. Saying you want feedback is one thing. The willingness to receive it is something else. Research has shown that leaders who ask for feedback are significantly more effective than leaders who don’t ask for it. Leaders who ranked at the bottom 10% in asking for feedback were rated at the 15th percentile in overall leadership effectiveness. In contrast, leaders who ranked at the top...
How Empowerment Leads to Engagement
by Alain Hunkins, originally published on Pioneer Leadership If it were you, which would you most prefer? No choice Someone else’s choice for me My choice The answer is obvious: In general, we prefer to make our own choices. There’s a freedom that comes from making our own choices. This is the heart of empowerment: the ability to be directly involved in our work. This involvement includes prioritizing the work, as well as when and...
The Part of Your Brain That Can Make Work A Joy…or a Hell
by Alain Hunkins There’s a small part of your brain called the RAS: Reticular Activating System. The RAS is the gateway for nearly all sensory input entering the brain. The RAS works like a bouncer outside a nightclub. It decides what information to let in, what to keep out, and which information should be treated like a “VIP”. Excepting smells, there’s no way to get into that brain without getting past the RAS. The RAS has a...
5 Painful Prices of Living with Constant Urgency
by Alain Hunkins When you’re asked, “How’s your week going?”, is your gut response to say: Crazy Busy? If so, you’re not alone. Crazy Busy – constant urgency – has become the new normal. Only there’s one problem. If everything is urgent, then nothing is urgent. There are things in life that demand urgency. A heart attack. A house on fire. A war. Yet, too many people I work are feeling overwhelmed. They’re not cardiac surgeons, or...
Why Do We Make Poor Decisions?
This is a wooden box. Some people use them to jump up onto for exercise. I am one of those people. Two weeks ago, I was using a box quite similar to this one, when I caught my left hand on the edge of box as I was jumping the 24 inches on to it. It hurt, but I thought it was just a bruise. I finished the workout, and noticed that my finger was pretty swollen. Just to be on the safe side, I figured I should have it checked out. I...
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