Appleton Greene – Energy Leadership
Executive summary
Appleton Greene Ideally, new employees enter the organization with an attitude of zeal, commitment, and the motivation to succeed. Achieving that kind of success triggers positive emotions of joy, confidence and the further motivation for advancement. A leader’s ability to maintain high levels of this attitude requires more than monetary incentives. Positive Energy Awareness (PEA) equips a leader with energetic behavioral tools for sustaining an employee’s desire to contribute greatness. Appleton Greene
Studies have shown that a leader’s emotions, behaviors, words, and attitude is contagious and can have a profound effect on employees, both positively and negatively. The more positive the leader, the better the opportunity to capture and harness the committed willingness of employees to not only achieve success, but to also inspire their innovation and creativity. Appleton Greene
In addition to the contagious effect, advances in technology have contributed to the development of an information infrastructure providing more knowledge in any field than leaders can master alone. Information sharing is vital to organizational health and sustainability. Leaders possessing the conscious and intentional ability to positively influence bringing people together will result in moving an organization from good to great. Appleton Greene
PEA is a path to consciously and consistently showing up as your authentic, best self. PEA partners with leaders using a seven-level contrivance and five-step path to develop keener self-awareness and understanding of what the leader may be projecting to those being lead. Appleton Greene
Service Methodology
Research studies conducted by the Protocol School of Washington, Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Stanford Research Institute revealed hard technical skills and knowledge account for fifteen percent of the reason an individual gets, keeps, and advances in a job. The remaining eighty-five percent of job success is attributed to individual people-skills, including intangible soft skills such as communicated words and observed micro messages of body language, voice pitch, eye contact, emotional behavior and attitude. In the era of information–the 21st century– retaining talented, knowledgeable employees and maintaining a competitive advantage within the organization, leaders’ need to recognize that soft skills are equally important to technical skill, that employees are more acquiescent to leaders with both characteristics. Appleton Greene
Humans are emotional creatures as well as thinking ones, yet in the workplace little to no attention is given to the emotional aspect of employment. The word emotion comes from the Latin word “emotere”, which is defined as activity or energy in motion; one finds that energy vibrates attracting high and low levels of like energy. Leaders’ words and behaviors carry positive and negative emotional energy signals to those led (consciously or unconsciously). Developing emotional awareness empowers leaders to intentionally take actions to boost organizational energy, moving the organizational needle from good to great. Appleton Greene
Positive Energy Awareness (PEA) specializes in raising awareness of the powerful impact emotional energy awareness brings to the organizational environment. PED focuses awareness and development in three areas, emotions, energy, and consciousness. Growth in these areas leads to two additional focuses, commitment and change. The integration of these five principle areas equates to an individual’s Positive Energy Potential (PEP), all of which can be expressed as the formula E2C3=PEP. Leaders’ development in these five areas–emotion, energy, consciousness, commitment and change–creates a path for cultivating an energetic organization grounded in both technical and soft skills awareness. Appleton Greene
Service Options
Companies can elect whether they just require Appleton Greene for advice and support with the Bronze Client Service, for research and performance analysis with the Silver Client Service, for facilitating departmental workshops with the Gold Client Service, or for complete process planning, development, implementation, management and review, with the Platinum Client Service. Ultimately, there is a service to suit every situation and every budget and clients can elect to either upgrade or downgrade from one service to another as and when required, providing complete flexibility in order to ensure that the right level of support is available over a sustainable period of time, enabling the organization to compensate for any prescriptive or emergent changes relating to: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing; or Production. Appleton Greene
Service Mission
There is a social phenomenon called “emotional contagion, ” a kind of non-verbal transference of emotional energy, and there is a wealth of information concerning it. For instance, Sigal Barsade, a professor of management at the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has years of experience studying emotional contagion and offered that people are not often aware that the contagious effect is happening. Additionally, there is a wealth of research to support the contagious effect of emotions. In general people unconsciously read each other’s moods. These nonverbal expressions carry as much energy transference as technical skills and knowledge. Positive Energy Awareness (PEA) offers clients added ways of addressing team engagement that recognizes the emotional contagious impact. Appleton Greene
Emotional contagion can affect the organization positively or negatively. PEA seeks to infuse a sense of awareness to the dualities of life (i.e., up/down, happy/sad, right/wrong, strengths/weakness, and positive/negative emotional energy). Specifically, negative emotional energy is associated with thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that are pessimistic, unhealthy, destructive, bad or undesirable and tends to hold people back, creating an environment of volatility and uncertainty. Positive emotional energy is associated with being optimistic, constructive, good or desirable and moves people forward creating an environment of vision and understanding. A typical protocol is for organizations to spend time and energy focusing on dissecting problems and weakness using tools such as Kaizens, Lean Six Sigma and various process improvement tools, all of which are critical to the organization. Equally important is the attitudes, beliefs, and emotions of contributors. PEA’s mission is to balance the scales, integrating technical skills with emotional awareness and to bring the energy of positivity into the culture of the organization. PEA process enhancement tools are intended to elevate leaders’ awareness, broadening the organizational perspective. Leaders’ increased awareness of the powerful impact of a balanced approach to organizational development provides an opportunity for educating all involved on mindful positive interaction. Ultimately, PEA processes contribute to improving the culture by offering additional approaches for organizational alignment and development. Appleton Greene
Dr. Harris is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in customer service, human resources and management. She has achieved a Doctorate of Management, a Master of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Management. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Retail and Education. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: El Segundo CA; Los Angeles CA and Denver CO. Her personal achievements include: self-awareness methodology; design corporate events activities; developed employee engagement processes and implemented employee relocation processes. Her service skills incorporate: customer relations; life coaching; project management; people management and retail sales.
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