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Persuasion – what is it and how do you do it?

What is persuasion? As a leader, your skills of persuasion are often the most critical determinants of your success. Or at least, that’s what many people believe. If it’s so important then, why do so few people actually develop this competency? It is a skill that (much like leadership itself) is something many think that […]

Are you at cause for influencing yourself to greater things or are you at the effect of others, the environment and the outside world?

In golf, there are only two things that affect your game. Yes, sorry, just the two things. The first is physics. The golf ball, your clubs, the course are all subject to the laws of physics. You might say that the weather changes the way the ball behaves. Yes indeed it can and does, cool […]

Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude

Technical aptitude alone is insufficient Jimmy Connors, winner of 109 professional singles tennis titles says “There’s a thin line between being #1 or #100 and mostly it’s mental.” In his well-researched book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman shows that it’s our attitude more than our aptitude that determines our altitude. Whilst our society lauds intellectual giants […]

Welcome to the Joy at Work Podcast with me, Dr John Kenworthy. In this guide we’re learning the
Four questions every leader should be asking, if they want to improve performance.
Introduction
Improved performance requires growth. And without growth, our career is doomed to stagnation and eventual death. Am I exaggerating? Well, stop watering your plants for a few weeks and see what happens. Organizations that don’t get better, don’t improve their performance year on year are stagnating too.
If you has a leader, don’t grow, then your career will stagnate. You may be exceptionally good at what you do, but if you want to move up the hierarchy, you need to grow into that position before you get given it because afterwards is far too late.
Plus you won’t have developed your team to take on your job. So how can they promote you? How, then do we raise performance easily?
Purpose
Our purpose and payoff being prepared to learn and change, and put in the necessary effort, is a critical step in growth and improve. And getting yourself and team members to regularly consider what’s going well. And what needs work is essential. If you want to improve performance.
Process
To do this, I’m sharing Four simple yet, oh, so powerful neuroscience-based questions that work to stimulate personal growth and the resulting conversations will take you in just five to 15 minutes of your time.
Payoff
Use it once now, as I guide you and you’ll immediately gain one benefit with a very clear action for next week. Use it with your team members once and you’ll gain one improvement in performance next week.
Use it weekly. And you’ll gain 52 improvements this year. The improvements don’t have to be huge. Small gains add greatly.
Before I start with the four questions, grab yourself a pen and paper or a iPad with a pencil, anything to make notes and be ready to pause as we go through this. The four questions starting off with keeping the good stuff.

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September 2, 2021