Love is one of our most powerful primal feelings. And primal feelings fuel the brain-power that drives the best team performance.
One tenet of a "high performance winning formula" places a huge priority on giving a strong voice about running the organization through the teams who play such a major role in getting results.
Author Jackie Barretta has known about this winning team formula for a long time and has now included these scientific concepts in her book, "Primal Teams: Harnessing the power of emotions to fuel extraordinary performance."
When author Barretta was promoted to director at a large software company, she was looking forward to attending her first leadership retreat.
Here is what she wrote about that retreat, "I'd wondered why the retreat coordinators had asked me to submit two pictures of my family a few weeks earlier, but when I walked into the conference room that morning I found my answer. Pictures of my husband and me with our dogs on the beach flashed across a huge video screen to the accompaniment of the uplifting song 'In the Living Years.' I stood there with my heart in my throat as my family photos shuffled among those of other leaders.
"Everyone stared at the screen. No one uttered a word. It's hard to express all the feelings that flooded my mind and body at that moment. Pride, certainly. Happiness, of course. And, to use a word you seldom see in a business book, love. The family-like bond that formed that day between me and the other leaders in the company fortified us through many years of tough challenges and hard work and accounted for much of the tremendous success we built during the subsequent years."
You can most effectively get your team connected at a deeper level by setting the stage for strong healthy team bonding. Just pick up the book, "Primal Teams: Harnessing the power of emotions to fuel extraordinary performance" and learn about The Team Bonder.
Source: Jackie Barretta: Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary Performance