So far this week we’ve covered two high trust behaviors from Stephen M.R. Covey’s powerful book The Speed of Trust: Listen First and Make and Keep Commitments.
Today we tackle the third: Extend trust.
For some of us, this is the tough one.
We’ve been taught to make someone earn our trust… “I’m not going to trust you until you prove you are trustworthy.”
That’s one way to live life.… continue reading
Of all Steven R. Covey’s powerful ideas and frameworks (I am a HUGE Steven Covey fan!!), my absolute favorite is the Circle of Influence vs. The Circle of Concern.
Steven asks us to consider: how do we spend a majority of our time? Do we focus our time and energy on things about which we have no real control? Or, do we focus our efforts on things we can impact … continue reading
Yesterday we talked about listening first, one of the high trust behaviors outlined in Stephen M.R. Covey’s terrific book, The Speed of Trust.
Twice I’ve had the good fortune of being part of the Stagen Leadership Academy’s year-long Integral Leadership Program (ILP). Talk about a peak learning experience. Wow. That’s something I highly recommend to anyone interesting in becoming a more evolved leader.
The first module of the ILP is … continue reading
We all want high trust relationships. Our lives are so much better when we are surrounded by people who trust us and we trust them. So much better.
In his excellent book, The Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey outlines ten high trust behaviors that we can work on to increase our trustworthiness. In my experience, trying to get ten things done is a great strategy to get nothing … continue reading
Each week we are doing a deep dive into a different topic and this week we’ve been looking at some of the key takeaways from Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage. We’ll wrap it up this week by looking at the implications of boosting happiness on workplace culture.
Question: Is it surprising that leaders who cultivate happiness in the workplace also drive overall productivity and success?
Shawn shares the research … continue reading
This week we are looking at insights from Shawn Achor’s terrific book on positive psychology, The Happiness Advantage.
Key takeaway: Happiness is not a mood. Rather, it is something we can work at. Even get better at.
As with many things in life, the first step is awareness. But just being aware of happiness doesn’t make us happier, we have to take action! Shawn reminds us that information … continue reading
So far this week, we’ve learned a couple of key lessons from Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage. First, happiness is more than a feeling; it is an indispensable ingredient of our success. And second: there are some serious benefits to being happy.
Shawn then raises the question: “Well, that’s great for the happy people, Shawn, but what about the rest of us??”
There’s good news here, too. In recent … continue reading
Yesterday, we covered the main idea from Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage: that being happy is an indispensable ingredient of our success.
The book is packed with interesting research and evidence that back up Shawn’s assertion.
One longitudinal study of happiness was done by reviewing the diary entries of 180 Catholic nuns who were asked to write down their thoughts in an autobiographical journal. More than fifty years later, … continue reading
This week we are going to be looking at some of the insights from The Happiness Advantage written by Shawn Achor.
Each year at PCI we have at least one book club where we read and discuss a relevant business or self-development book. The Happiness Advantage was our 2020 selection. These reading/discussion groups have been a key element of our workplace culture at PCI dating back to 1997. The very … continue reading
One of the central ideas of Stephen M. L. Covey’s book The Speed of Trust is that to build trust, we must be persons of high character.
But Covey tells us: that’s not enough.
Character is about being virtuous. It’s about cultivating a moral code which we use to make decisions and live life. In Ryan Holliday’s excellent book Stillness is the Way, he writes the Stoics believed that … continue reading
