Dear Reader,
Consider the following statement by Shawn
Achor, a Harvard Lecturer:
“... a study of over 350 employees in 60 business
units at a financial services company found that the greatest predictor of a
team’s achievement was how the members felt about one another.”
Many corporate professionals may say that
they have no time for this touchy-feely stuff, they have bigger goals to
achieve. We have discovered that the impact each leader has on his/her
colleagues is a critical parameter that contributes to team’s success.
As mentioned in my
last email, we found a way to measure that impact in a secret ballot,
authentic way and created Rejoiss Leadership index. We use the terms
“Encouraging”, “Transactional” and “Discouraging” to categorise the impact and
influence people have on each other.
The results of Rejoiss Leadership Index
surveys conducted across the world, show that more than 40% of relationships
among colleagues were transactional: neither encouraging, nor discouraging.
We are often asked how to convert
transactional relationships to empowering ones without interfering or sounding fake?
One answer to that question is: with conversations which show your interest and
care for the other person.
Conversations topics like politics, sports,
financial markets, business etc. are popular. However, they don’t give us the
opportunity to know the real person and hence keeps the relationship at a
transactional level.
Here are some conversation starters you can
experiment with to invoke personal experience sharing without intruding:
Find more such questions on https://thefamilydinnerproject.org/conversation/
.
May this mail give you new clues to build
stronger empowering connections in your life, first at the family dinner table,
then with friends and colleagues.
