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How to create exceptional performance through empowerment

Lancefield on the Line

‘Leaders like to be able to look out over their people and say ‘Yes, they’re working’. It’s kind of like: if I can see you, then I don’t have to trust you…’

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How to bring your best and bravest self to work

The Marketing Society

‘Fitting in versus standing out – I think that we are a very social species and there is a huge urge to conform and to get your head down…’

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Activating Your Best Self

TEDx LBS

‘This is what I’m really intrigued by…the idea that depending on the story that you accept – and that you think about – it starts to be who you are…’

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Make a life, not just a living

TEDx Liverpool

‘We have, inside of us, an innate need or drive to explore our environment – to learn new things and understand our cause and our effect…’

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Bored at work? Your brain is trying to tell you something

Big Think

‘This seeking system is urging us to explore the boundaries of what we know. It’s urging us to be curious…’

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Bring your best self to work

London Business School

‘What if you got a chance to hear your own eulogy while you were still alive? What would that be like?’

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Lighting Up Our Working Lives

Head Talks

Dan argues that modern businesses take too much of the cause and effect out of work, which means workers don’t experience the dopamine surge that ‘lights us up’. That can cause stress and illness. The answer, he suggests, lies in allowing workers to find more meaning and get in touch with the end results of what they do.

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Five minute overview of Alive at Work

London Business School

‘From my perspective, one of the most important things that leaders can do is get started, be curious and experiment.’

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The emotions of competitive advantage

London Business School

‘You’re using an idea that you came up with to impact somebody else’s life in a positive way – that you can feel, you can see.’

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What if you were allowed to be your best self at work?

London Business School

‘There are some interesting tensions between allowing, or encouraging people, to play to their best (to play to their strengths) and control and trust.’

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Helping newcomers integrate into a workplace

London Business School

‘When you feel most alive, what are you doing? And when you’re operating at your peak, what does that look like?’

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