Michael Lee Stallard
APRIL 18, 2012
Check out this excellent article in The Atlantic entitled “ Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? ” Some eye-popping statistics and quotes from the article include: In 1950 less than 10 percent of American households contained only one person. By 2010, nearly 27 percent had just one person. A 2010 AARP survey found that 35 percent of adults older than 45 were chronically lonely as opposed to 20 percent a decade earlier.
Michael Lee Stallard
AUGUST 16, 2012
Did you notice at the Olympics that all the world class athletes had coaches? No one becomes great without coaching. We all have blind spots we cant see that are sabotaging our performance. This is true of leaders, too. Coaches and mentors help leaders see their blind spots. They also provide advice and encouragement to help leaders overcome their blind spots and strengthen their strengths.
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Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 24, 2012
Connecting with people requires empathy i.e. you feel the emotion another individual feels. This is different from sympathy where you recognize the emotion but don’t feel it. In Fired Up or Burned Out , I wrote about the company Cranium and how it designs “high five moments” into its games. High five moments are times when people connect via the shared empathy of joy (remember that we define “the force of connection” as shared identity, empathy and understanding).
Michael Lee Stallard
JANUARY 28, 2012
This last week I was in Boston for several meetings and to teach a seminar for the Institute for Management Studies (IMS). I always teach that there are hundreds of ways to connect with others and the challenge facing leaders is to get to know the people they lead and identify ways to connect with them given who they are and the context of their work together.
Michael Lee Stallard
DECEMBER 26, 2012
You can’t give what you don’t have. That’s why cultures in health care organizations need to be life-giving in order to energize health care workers who give so much of themselves to their patients. This is an important issue today. In some health care-related fields, as many as one-third of employees leave their jobs each year. What can be done?
Michael Lee Stallard
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Too much stress, including stress in your workplace, damages “telomeres” on the ends of your chromosomes and causes rapid aging. Interestingly, when people connect in supportive relationships it triggers the production of enzymes called “telomerase” that heal damaged telomeres. Check out this outstanding 58 minute National Geographic documentary entitled “ Stress: Portrait of a Killer ” about this and other research on the effects of stress.
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 31, 2012
New York City’s WCBS News Radio 880 ran portions of an interview I did with daytime host Pat Farnack. Here are links to the segments and full interview: Is your workplace killing you? Worse then Toxic. Snakes in Suits. Nick the Doorman. How to Flourish. Full Interview (14 minutes).
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