More Empirical Support for Leading People the Black Belt Way

Here's more empirical support for Leading People the Black Belt Way. This time, it's from Reuters Health, which reports,

"Poor team spirit at the workplace may do more than drag down morale, it can make people depressed, according to the findings of a new study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine."

The study also showed an increased risk for anxiety, as well.

So here's how it works.


Emotionally UN-intelligent leaders create emotional disengagement throughout an organization.

Emotional disengagement undermines team spirit.

Poor team spirit makes people depressed and anxious, thus driving up healthcare costs and decreasing productivity.


In these tough economic times, can your organization afford increased costs and decreased productivity?

I thought not.

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Timothy H. Warneka, author of LEADING PEOPLE THE BLACK BELT WAY: CONQUERING THE FIVE CORE PROBLEMS FACING LEADERS TODAY and THE WAY OF LEADING PEOPLE: UNLOCKING YOUR INTEGERAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS WITH THE TAO TE CHING is an nationally recognized leadership expert and an in-demand speaker. An expert on Emotionally Intelligent leadership as well as the interconnection of spirituality and leadership, Timothy H. Warneka is an experienced inspirational speaker who provides powerful leadership insights to:

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Drawing on the power of Emotional Intelligence, Mr. Warneka will show your audience cutting-edge leadership science in ways that are entertaining and fun. Mr. Warneka speaks at:

* Professional conferences;
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* Staff Development days;
* Team Retreats.

Timothy H. Warneka can customize the presentation your organization needs … anywhere from a 30 minute motivational speech to multiple days of in-depth leadership training.

Contact Mr. Warneka today by calling 440.944.4746

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

If anyone doubts the importance of Emotional Intelligence for leaders, one only has to look at the emotional responses to the economic crisis of the past week.

Do emotions impact the bottom line?

Without a doubt.

Leadership in Economic Crisis: Seven Steps

I've had several clients contact me about the psychological implications to the current economic crisis. Many leaders want to know how to handle this crisis in an emotionally intelligent way.

My advice?

Treat this crisis the same as any other crisis.

Leaders need to:

1. Keep calm.
2. Breathe.
3. Think clearly.
4. Get support for yourself.
5. Gather consensus.
6. Don't rush decisions.
7. Act decisively once decisions are made.

More Evidence of Employee Emotional Disengagement

This article at CNN.com discusses the impact of 'daylighting' or people working more than one job at the same time.

The article by Ron Dicker states, "Many Americans are squeezing two jobs into one shift -- moonlighting by day, as it were -- as a hedge against a sagging economy or to maintain their style of living."

... and ...

"Shoehorning a second career into the same shift as your primary job is tricky -- and ethically questionable. Some workers do it with the approval of their superiors. But many do it in defiance of company policy (the main reason most "daylighters" interviewed preferred to remain anonymous) frustrating managers and human-resource executives."

As I wrote in my book LEADING PEOPLE THE BLACK BELT WAY: CONQUERING THE FIVE CORE PROBLEMS FACING LEADERS TODAY, research consistently shows that between 70% - 80% of employees are working at far less than peak capacity because they are emotionally disengaged from their jobs.

The culprit? The epidemic of poor leadership across corporate cultures.

As long as leaders continue to ignore the emotional impact of their emotionally unintelligent leadership processes, daylighting will continue, erroding the emotional connection of employees even more.

Looking for a Keynote Speaker for 2008?

Planning a conference, retreat or annual event in 2008?

You know that selecting your keynote speaker is the most important part.

If you are planning an event for 2008, then you should consider leadership expert Timothy H. Warneka.

Every keynote Mr. Warneka presents is carefully created drawing from recent advances in Adult Learning strategies, Emotional Intelligence and principles from the revolutionary non-violent martial art of Aikido. Mr. Warneka's highly interactive approach will keep your participants engaged in the exact material you want covered!

An experienced keynote presenter, some of Mr. Warneka's most often requested keynotes include:

* Leading People the Black Belt Way

* Developing the Integral Organization

* Powerful Productivity Through Coaching

* Five Black Belt Strategies for Leading Diversity

* The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

* Three Secrets of Black Belt Leaders

Don't see the topic you're looking for? Email Mr. Warneka directly or call him at 440.944.4746 and find out how easy it is to have a customized keynote topic created just for your organization!
Mr. Warneka's 2008 calendar is filling up! Be sure to book him ... before it's too late!

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You can contact Mr. Warneka by calling 440.944.4746 or by emailing him at:

TWarneka [at] blackbeltconsultants [dot] com.

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How to Become a More Powerful Leader.

Want to know how to become a more powerful leader?

Be willing to say, "I don't know."

Over the weekend, I got to watch the amazing movie "We Are Marshall," which tells the story of the Marshall University (W.Va.) football team who died in a plane crash in 1970 ... and how MU rebuilt their team.

Actor Matthew McConaughy plays Coach Lengyel -- the man who took the job that nobody wanted. Lengyel had to deal with the pain and grief of those who remained after the crash ... and the conflicting emotions that people held.

At several key points in the story, various characters ask Lengyel important questions, and Lengyel has the strength to answer simply, "I don't know." No psychobabble. No B.S. Simply, "I don't know."

BOTTOM LINE: When faced with emotional turmoil and chaos, powerful leaders have the internal strength to say, "I don't know."

All things Harry ...

As this weekend is the release of the 7th and final Harry Potter book, you can read about my blog on Harry Potter and Emotional Intelligence.

Enjoy the book.

Going International with Asogomi Publishing International

My micro-publishing company is now truly international! Here're the details...

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Micro-Publisher Lands Deal with Key International Publisher

Micro-Publisher’s Best-Selling Leadership Book Vaults into International Market

Contact: Timothy H. Warneka at 440.944.4746
P.O. Box 20
Cleveland, OH 44092
Tim@timwarneka.com
http://www.timwarneka.com/

Cleveland, Ohio – June 6, 2007 – Micro-Publisher Asogomi Publishing International announces landing its first international agreement with Pearson Education India. Pearson and Asogomi recently signed an agreement for Pearson to publish Asogomi’s best-selling book, Leading People the Black Belt Way: Conquering the Five Core Problems Facing Leaders Today. Written by Asogomi’s president, Tim Warneka, Leading People the Black Belt Way describes the Black Belt Way, a new approach to leadership that draws from the science of Emotional Intelligence and principles from the revolutionary non-violent martial art of Aikido.

“It is an honor to be able to work with an illustrious publisher such as Pearson Education,” commented Warneka, who founded Asogomi in 2005 in order to bring more sophisticated leadership approaches into the field. Pearson Education won the Foreign Rights for publishing Leading People the Black Belt Way after a heated bidding war with another publisher in India. “We are quite happy to have won the bid for such an important leadership book,” reports Sonal Sharma, a representative of Pearson.

To learn more about Asogomi Publishing International, visit them on-line at:

http://www.asogomi.com/

Warneka’s books are $19.95 (paperback) and $29.95 (hardback) and are available from Asogomi Publishing International. Or send your business card and a check (U.S. fund only) payable to Asogomi Publishing International, P.O. Box 20, Cleveland, Ohio, 44092. Or call 440.944.4746.

The books are also available from your local bookstore as well as from on-line book sellers such as Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) and Barnes & Noble (http://www.bn.com/).

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Cleveland Bridges NOT Falling Down...

This past Saturday morning, my family and some friends ventured down to the area around the Cleveland zoo, where the city had announced that they were going to demolish a bridge that was almost 100 years old.

For those of you who have never been to the Cleveland Zoo, when you walk through parts of the zoo, you walk under this enormous old bridge. I remember being very young walking under that bridge.

I will miss that bridge ... there was something strangely comforting about walking under the shade of that structure on a hot and sunny visit to the zoo.

But back to Saturday.

Over 700 pounds of explosives were supposed to be detonated at about 8:00 a.m. EST, causing the bridge to collapse in about 5 seconds.

The problem was: it didn't happen that way. It took several attempts to blow up the bridge, and my understanding is that part of it is still standing today, three days later.

Here's a video from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_ndpXYRp8

The lessons for leaders?

How something is planned and how that same plan is execute are often two very different things. Emotionally intelligent leaders plan for such a series of events.

On Creating a Corporate Culture of Fear

Are employees in your organization afraid?

If so, as a leader new research should give you a reason to worry. This month the Journal of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience published a research article entitled:

"Learning fears by observing others: the neural systems of social fear transmission"

in which the authors discovered "...that fear acquired indirectly through social observation, with no personal experience of the aversive event, engages similar neural mechanisms as fear conditioning."

Which essential means that if your organization supports a culture of fear it will impact the bottom line. For example, if employee "A" has a run-in with an emotionally dysfunctional leader, not only will employee's brain begin to re-wire into a fear response, other employees's brains will also begin to re-wire into a fear response.

Fearful employees are emotional UNintelligent employees. Fearful employees are at higher risk of becoming emotionally disengaged with your organization, which creates a signficant drain on your organization's bottom line.

For those readers who are interested, you can read the full abstract of this important research article here.

BOTTOM LINE: Any Organization with a Culture of Fear is an Unprofitable Organization.

The Integral Equivalent of Teaching Emotional Intelligence...

A Norwegian TV show recently posted this very funny skit on YouTube. My IT colleagues who work at various HelpDesks find it hilarious. From an integral coaching perspective, I find the same thing happens when I'm coaching people in building their Emotional Intelligence...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Enjoy a laugh today!

:-)

Tim

Living for the 70's....

When I consult with organization, sometimes the process requires me to interview various employees up and down the management chain.

I was recently consulting for a mid-size company, and as I walked around I consistently heard employees proudly say:

"We do things here the same way we did them 30 years ago!"

one variation even went:

"We do things the same way we've been doing them for years ... except that we have email now!"

(Honest. Someone actually said that.)

Um...............

See the problem?

Unless you're a maker of 70's fashion, doing things the same way you did them 30 years ago is a serious problem. Processes that are 3 decades old are not points of pride--they are red flags that something has been seriously missed.


BOTTOM LINE: Emotionally Intelligent leaders listen carefully for signs of stagnation in their organization. Stagnation means the same thing as "someone else will eat our lunch".