positive-intelligence working positive culture

1. CREATING A GREAT WORKPLACE
CULTURE
Continuous
Coaching
Help people
achieve their
goals
Meaningful recognition
Thank people for the great
work they do
Real-time
feedback
Increase the
frequency of
feedback loops

2. CONTINUOUS COACHING
of employees
aren’t engaged
when they feel
ignored by their
managers
Gallup survey of 1,003 U.S. employees (2009)
97%

3. SM

4. QUESTIONS
• Why does positive change typically fizzle?
Team retreats
EQ and leadership workshops
New Years’ resolutions
• Why do some athletes choke when it really matters?
• Why does happiness from new attainments last so little?
• Why do nagging, critical, or anxious thoughts repeat endlessly?
•

5. ANSWER

7. Saboteurs Sage

8. Saboteurs Sage
Judge
Controller
Victim
Stickler
Avoider
Etc.

10. FULL POTENTIAL

11. EROSION OF POTENTIAL

12. EXPOSING THE SABOTEURS

13. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic
System,
Left Brain
Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
Empathy Circuitry *,
Right Brain
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.

14. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic
System,
Left Brain
Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
Empathy Circuitry *,
Right Brain
FOCUS Survive Thrive
VOICE Saboteurs Sage
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.

15. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic
System,
Left Brain
Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
Empathy Circuitry *,
Right Brain
FOCUS Survive Thrive
VOICE Saboteurs Sage
EMOTIONS Anxiety, Anger,
Disappointment,
Shame, Guilt, Regret,
Blame
Curiosity, Compassion,
Joy, Creativity, Peace,
Calm Resolve
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.

18. JUDGE: THE MASTER
SABOTEUR
• Finds fault with
 Self
 Others
 Events and Circumstances
• Source of most of our unhappiness, anxiety, anger,
disappointment, guilt, and shame.
• Triggers other Saboteurs

19. Controller Hyper-Achiever Restless
Stickler Pleaser Hyper-Vigilant
Avoider Victim Hyper-Rational
MOTIVATION
Autonomy Attention Security
Assert
Earn
Avoid
STYLE
JUDGE’S ACCOMPLICE SABOTEURS

20. • Judge: fault finding with self, others, or circumstances.
• Victim: focus on painful feelings as way of earning empathy and
attention.
• Pleaser: pleasing, flattering, rescuing others, to gain acceptance.
• Avoider: procrastinate or avoid difficult tasks or conflicts, focus on
the pleasant.
• Stickler: need for perfection, order, and organization taken too far.
• Restless: never at rest or content with what is, needing perpetual
busyness.
• Controller: anxiety-based need to control situations and bend
others to own will.
• Hyper-Achiever: dependent on achievement for self acceptance and
self love.
• Hyper-Rational: rational processing of everything including
relationships.
• Hyper-Vigilant: vigilance that can never rest, seeing danger in every
corner.

22. Sage Perspective
Every outcome or circumstance is a gift and opportunity.
The Stallion Story

24. PQ = 75 Inflection Point
PQ = 0
PQ = 100
PQ Equivalent Scores Identified
By Various Researchers
66 = Team: Medium Performance
41 = Marriage: Dissolution
29 = Team: Low Performance
69= Individual: “Languishing”
77 = Individual: “Flourishing”
82 = Marriage: Flourishing
85 = Team: High Performance
PQ VORTEX

27. Questions/Comments?