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CREATING A CONNECTION CULTURE

Michael Lee Stallard & Jason Pankau


CURRENT WORK ENVIRONMENT

Why should you care?

• Employee trust and cooperation are low

• 75% of our employees are not engaged at work!

• In America that is more than 101,000,000

individuals


EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT DEFINED


THE OPPORTUNITY

“One of the things you notice in Gallup Research is that only one in four workers in the U.S. are engaged in the workplace… Imagine if you could get half the employees engaged… It is just unbelievable to me the potential that exists for companies.”

James Clifton

CEO, Gallup Organization


RESEARCH


ORANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR


ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

• 2004 Employee Engagement Study of 50,000 employees:

• Emotional factors are four times as effective as rational factors in engaging employees

• Engaged employees are 20% more productive than the average employee

Source: Corporate Executive Board


NEUROSCIENCE

Neuroscience has shown that connection:• Reduces stress hormones (epinephrine,

norepinephrine, cortisol)• Increases dopamine which enhances

attention and pleasure• Increases serotonin which reduces fear

and worry• Increases oxytocin which makes us

more trusting of others


NEUROSCIENCE

Scientists discovered from split brain surgery on epilepsy patients:

• Severed the Corpus Callosum• Right Brain - unconscious mind controls

emotions • Left Brain - conscious mind controls logic,

speech• Cognitive scientist Michael Gazzaniga

labeled the left brain “the interpreter” • Frequently our right brain determines what

we do and our left brain makes up a story to explain it


HUMAN NEEDS TO THRIVE

Meaning

Personal GrowthAutonomy (Freedom)

Recognition

Belonging

Respect


PSYCHIATRY

Lack of connection at work increases:

• loneliness

• isolation

• confusion

• distrust

• disrespect, and

• dissatisfactionSource: Dr. Edward Hallowell, former instructor Harvard Medical School


POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Since WWII, subjective well being (happiness) has been flat although economic prosperity has increased dramatically.Experts believe a lack of connection and community has kept subjective well being stagnant.Sources: Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam, American Paradox by David Myers, and The Decline of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert Lane


HEALTH RESEARCH

Research has shown connection = positive impact

• Babies who are held = healthier

• Students who receive eye contact = perform better academically

• Patients who have social support = recover faster

• Adults with greater connection = more creative, better problem solvers

• Seniors who have social relationships = live longerSources: Carlson, 1998; Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1992; Resnick, 1997; Cohen, 1997; Berkman, 1979; Baumeister, 2003; MacArthur Foundation Study, 1998


CURRENT WORK ENVIRONMENT

Florida State University Survey

When Bosses Behave Badly – employees retaliate:

• 30% slowed down or purposely made errors vs. 6% of those not reporting abuse.

• 27% purposely hid from the boss vs. 4% of those not abused.

• 33% confessed to not putting in maximum effort vs. 9% of those not abused.

• 29% took sick time off even when not ill vs. 4% of those not abused.

• 25% took more or longer breaks vs. 7% of those not abused.


THE CONNECTION CULTURE

We all need connection!

It brings out the best in people, and makes them:• mentally and physically healthier • more trusting• more productive• more cooperative• more creative• better problem solvers


WHAT IS CONNECTION?

“Like wind through the trees”

An invisible force between human beings that promotes trust, cooperation and “esprit de corps”!

Brought about by intentionally developing Relationship Excellence!


WORK BECOMING MORE IMPORTANT

Beginning in the 1990’s, work became a greater part of Americans’ self definition than family and community.

- The Gallup Organization


THE CONNECTION CULTURE

We need to put the corpus back into corporation!

“Corpus” is Latin for body

Cor·po·ra·tion (kôr'pə-rā'shən) n.

• A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members. Such a body created for purposes of government. Also called body corporate.

• A group of people combined into or acting as one body.


THE CORPORATE EQUATION

+TaskExcellence

The Connection Culture


ELEMENTS OF CONNECTION

Core Elements1. Human Value2. Inspiring Identity3. Knowledge Flow

Enabling Elements4. Committed Members5. Servant Leaders


INSPIRING IDENTITY (“VISION”)

When everyone in the organization is

proud of the reputation.

united by the values, and

motivated by the mission,


VISION

Case study: FDR

During World War II

18,000 aircraft workers at Boeing in Seattle

1941-1945 American aircraft companies

– out-produced the Nazis three-to-one

– built nearly 300,000 airplanes


HUMAN VALUE (“VALUE”)

When everyone in the organization

understands the needs of people,

appreciates their positive, unique contributions, and

helps others achieve their potential.


VALUE

1. Understands psychological needs of people

Human needs at work: • Respect• Recognition• Belonging• Autonomy (freedom)• Personal growth• MeaningSources:E Pluribus Partners, Ryan and Deci, Maslow, Frankl, Csikszentmihalyi, Banks

Lack of connection > deficit need

dysfunctional behavior


VALUE

2. Appreciate my positive, unique contributions

Know my storyHow well do you know your employees? What is their background?What are their dreams and ambitions?What motivates them?Who is important in their life?What qualities do they strive for?


VALUE

3. Help others achieve their potential

Encourage professional growthprofessional

development courses

Encourage personal growth coaching, mentoring Share your gold with others!


VALUE

“What we can do is construct an environment that nurtures trusting and respectful relationships and unleashes everyone’s creativity. If we get it right, the result is a vibrant community where talented people are loyal to one another and their collective work, everyone feels that they are part of something extraordinary, and their passion and accomplishments make the community a magnet for talented people coming out of schools or working at other places. I know what I’m describing is the antithesis of the free-agency practices that prevail in the movie industry, but that’s the point: I believe that community matters.”

- Ed Catmull, President, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios


VALUE


VALUE


KNOWLEDGE FLOW (“VOICE”)

When everyone in the organization

safeguards relational connections.

shares ideas and opinions honestly, and

seeks the ideas of others,


VOICE

Richard Feynman


VOICE

“Complete transformation! They began to invent ways of doing it better. They improved the scheme. They worked at night. They didn’t need supervising in the night; they didn’t need anything. They understood everything; they invented several of the programs that we used…my boys really came through, and all that had to be done was to tell them what it was, that’s all. As a result, although it took them nine months to do three problems before, we did nine problems in three months, which is nearly ten times as fast.”

- Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist


VOICE


“That didn’t happen in other armies . . . Rommel did not have a suggestion box outside his door. Eisenhower did. Bradley did.”

- Historian Stephen Ambrose

VOICE


VOICE

According to her colleagues: “She told us everything, stuff we didn’t want to know [like how close we were to running out of cash].” “Part of her DNA is to tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly.”


VOICE


1. Leader fails to encourage other points of view

2. Internal rivals

3. Fiefdoms

4. Isolationist culture

KNOWLEDGE TRAPS


KNOWLEDGE FLOW SESSIONS


CONNECTION FORMULA

VISION + VALUE + VOICE =

Connection


ELEMENTS OF CONNECTION

Core Elements1. Human Value2. Inspiring Identity3. Knowledge Flow

Enabling Elements4. Committed Members5. Servant Leaders


COMMITTED MEMBERS

Definition:

When everyone in the organization is:

• committed to task excellence,

• promoting the connection culture, and

• living out character strengths and virtues.


Definition: empowered with the authority to:

• Coordinate task excellence,

• Facilitate the connection culture, and

• Model and mentor others in character strengths and virtues!

SERVANT LEADERS


“Ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”

-- Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


CHARACTER STRENGTHS

“Coach Wooden had a profound influence on me as an athlete, but an even greater influence on me as a human being. He is responsible, in part, for the person I am today.”

- Kareem Abdul Jabbar


ELEMENT #1: VISION


“…while there are indeed great, often unfathomable forces in history before which even the most exceptional of individuals seem insignificant, the wonder is how often events turn upon a single personality, or the quality we call character.”

-- Historian David McCullough

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.””

-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTER


American Psychology Association study

Leading psychologists

Global study

Identified 24 specific character strengths

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


CHARACTER STRENGTHS

General George C. Marshall


CHARACTER STRENGTHS

“I’m sorry Mr. President, I don’t agree with you at all.” -- General George C. Marshall


CHARACTER STRENGTHS

“[He has] an insatiable desire to learn, to know, [and] to understand.”

-- Nobel Peace Prize Committee


“Most men are slaves of ambition. General Marshall is a slave of his duties.”

“I have never seen a task of such magnitude performed by a man”

“You have inspired us with your single-mindedness of purpose and selfless devotion to our common cause.”

CHARACTER STRENGTHS

-- Senator Henry Stimson

-- British Officers’ Letter to Marshall


Operation Overlord

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


“…when I disapprove [of Marshall’s recommendations], I don’t have to look over my shoulder to see which way he is going…I know he is going…to give me the most loyal support as chief of staff that any president could wish.”

-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


“Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, desperation, and chaos.”

-- George C. Marshall Speech at Harvard University in 1953

The Marshall Plan

CHARACTER STRENGTHS


CHARACTER AND CONNECTION

Who will you choose to become?

Intentional Disconnector

Unintentional Disconnector

Intentional Connector


CHARACTER STRENGTHS

1. Develop habits that reflect character strengths.

2. Build high trust relationships with people who want to develop character strengths.

3. Undertake periodic checkups - 360 degree performance reviews.

4. Study and celebrate the character of intentional connectors.

5. Select, measure and promote leaders who have character strengths and who connect.


SERVANT LEADERS

The Connection Culture


Actionable examples

20 stories of great leaders

Questions for team study

LEARN FROM LEADERS

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