In this Webinar, Shirzad Chamine - author of New York Times best seller “Positive Intelligence” - explores a groundbreaking new science and practice that has helped hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams train their minds to combat “saboteurs” and make lasting improvements in performance and personal fulfillment.

1. The social way to improve performance at work

2. Mastering Positive Intelligence: How to Maximize
Performance and Achieve Your Potential at Work
Featured Speaker: Shirzad Chamine
Live: Tuesday, May 29 @ 2:00 pm ET

3. Rypple Leadership Series
Your Host Our Guest
Nick Stein Shirzad Chamine
Chairman of CTI
Director of Content & Media
Author of New York Times best seller
Rypple
“Positive Intelligence”
@stein_nick
@ShirzadPQ

4. Creating a great workplace culture
Meaningful recognition
Thank people for the great
work they do

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

6. SM

7. 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?

8. Answer

10. Saboteurs Sage

11. Saboteurs Sage
Judge
Controller
Victim
Stickler
Avoider
Etc.

13. Full Potential

14. Erosion of Potential

15. Exposing the Saboteurs

16. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
System, Empathy Circuitry
Left Brain *, Right Brain
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.
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17. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
System, Empathy Circuitry
Left Brain *, Right Brain
FOCUS Survive Thrive
VOICE Saboteurs Sage
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.
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18. SURVIVOR BRAIN PQ BRAIN
ANATOMY Brainstem, Limbic Middle Prefrontal Cortex,
System, Empathy Circuitry
Left Brain *, Right Brain
FOCUS Survive Thrive
VOICE Saboteurs Sage
EMOTIONS Anxiety, Anger, Curiosity, Compassion,
Disappointment, Joy, Creativity, Peace,
Shame, Guilt, Regret, Calm Resolve
Blame
* Empathy Circuitry consists of the Mirror Neuron System, the ACC and Insula Cortex of
the MPFC.
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21. 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
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22. Judge’s Accomplice Saboteurs
MOTIVATION
STYLE Autonomy Attention Security
Assert Controller Hyper-Achiever Restless
Earn Stickler Pleaser Hyper-Vigilant
Avoid Avoider Victim Hyper-Rational

23. 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.

24. What do you think?
Live Webinar Results
Question: Based on the
information thus far, I believe:
 I DO have Saboteurs that
cause significant harm to
reaching my full potential for
success or happiness.
 I DON’T have Saboteurs that
cause significant harm to
reaching my full potential for
success or happiness.
 I don’t know yet.
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26. Sage Perspective
Every outcome or circumstance is a gift and opportunity.
The Stallion Story

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

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31. Visit www.PositiveIntelligence.com:
•PQ score assessment
•Saboteur assessment
•Tools and resources
•Book excerpts
Shirzad@PositiveIntelligence.com
Twitter: @ShirzadPQ

32. Questions/Comments?

33. Mark your calendars…
“Intro to Rypple”
Learn more about how you can engage, retain and
align your people.
Wednesday, May 30th @ 3pm ET
“The Future of Work”
Featured Speakers: Thor Muller and Lane Becker
Tuesday, June 12 @ 2:00pm ET
“Positive Intelligence for your Sales Team”
Featured Speakers: Shirzad Chamine
Tuesday, July 24 @ 2:00pm ET