Positivity Strategist
Positivity Strategist injects a good dose of optimism and possibility into your life. It seeks to marry the ideal with the practical. Conversations with thought leaders and everyday people shine the light on what works and amplifies the every day, micro-moments of positivity, irrespective of what else is going on. You'll be energized by lots of practical tips, inspiring you to live a truly satisfying and meaningful life.
Episodes
Reflecting on all the delicious diversity of perspectives on the topic of Appreciative Leading including stories on the significance of the relational process, connection, collaboration, love. Show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps116
Going meta on the topic of Appreciative Leading, Sheila McNamee offers us the social constructionist's perspective: what leading means as a relational process rather than as an individual's characteristics, traits or skills. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps115
A well-connected, social entrepreneur, committed to bringing a positive impact to his city is convening an Appreciative Inquiry Summit, calling all interested stakeholders to come together to imagine the future of their city. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps114
Applying Appreciative Inquiry in framing conversations to build the partnerships and strengthen collaboration in healthcare. Storytelling is a way to pull forward the positive from the past to envision more positive futures. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps113
When leading in challenging times, what if we asked questions about what is going right rather than what is going wrong? Where would people's energy go? http://positivitystrategist.com/leading-in-challenging-times
Searching for the soul of leading requires that you love people. You can never be a good leader if you don't have a good follower and you can never be a good follower if you don't have a good leader. So you really need each other. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps111
J. Kim Wright: "Lawyers, in general, have much higher rates of addiction and suicide. Yet, people who were practicing these new holistic ways were much healthier. I took that on. My mission was to learn about this and then to actually bring this message to the mainstream." http://positivitystrategist.com/j-kim-wright-law-peacemakers
Creating a community conversation for input into our strategic plan to tap into the energy, passion, excitement and good ideas across our community, thereby helping us to navigate these very interesting times in higher education. http://positivitystrategist.com/ps109
Creating a culture to bring extraordinary health and happiness inside and outside the organization to become a truly flourishing enterprise in all ways. The Appreciative Inquiry summit is a really powerful event my guest describes as just magical. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps108
On the topic of Appreciative Leading, Peter Pula was the first and obvious choice in the profession of journalism as he is at the forefront of generative journalism. I wanted him to share with us his craft and art as a journalist and his vision and practice to transform journalism. For links and resources mentioned in ...
Leading is much more than having the title of leader or being engaged in the process of leadership. Leading can be a deliberate and conscious act, and it can come from spontaneity and impulse. It's about innovation and making a difference. Excerpts from inspirational stories show the way. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps106
It's time to do something different again. Change is good. This episode closes out Season 2, co-hosted with Sallie Lee. If you missed any of those 10 episodes, I urge you to listen: seven literacies are explained for living and leading in our times. In this show find out about our next new Season, entitled Appreciative Leading - conversations with leaders across all sectors who are agents of po...
Anticipating what is possible and how we fuel it is the topic of this literacy: Finding the Future. It helps to envision a better future if we shift what's going on that isn't serving to that which is serving in any given situation because all futures are shared futures. We shape the future through the images we hold and the conversations we participate in. For resources ...
Connecting the collective is the work of hearts and minds. This literacy focuses us on living into the "we." Connecting and belonging are the life-blood of human organizing and relationships. Starting conversations that are real and inclusive lifts up our appreciative voice. When we acknowledge the wisdom available to us and put greater value on that which the collective offers us, we open up t...
We need one another to make sense of all that is going on around us. Finding our personal and collective wholeness contributes to our sense of belonging. In coming together, our combined intelligence, and intent for wholeness and belonging enables new wisdom and solutions to surface. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps101
Paying attention to and magnifying the positive in people, communities, and networks help us flourish. Among the benefits of knowing our strengths include finding more flow and meaning in work, feeling more energized than drained and seeing our relationships improve by coming from a place of greater ease. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.c...
In cultivating compassion, we grow empathy and positive regard for self and others. It encourages us to train our hearts and minds to stay open and offer our best to others. Growing our understanding of difference, attending to small ways to connect with other, developing our own inner resource to be of service are some of the habits of this literacy. For resources and links mentioned in t...
This literacy opens us up to our own frames (perspectives) on the world. As we widen our frames, we begin to understand and appreciate the frames of others. Having this literacy to frame and reframe enables us to shift perspective and opens us to possibilities and solutions we may never have even considered if we stayed comfortable with our blinkers on wit...
The literacy we talk about in this episode is Inviting Inquiry. It is central to all the Literacies, and it's central to Appreciative Voice. The principles of Appreciative Inquiry inform us that we move in the direction of our inquiries; questions we ask of ourselves and others. Inquiry stimulates curiosity. Inquiry starts movements. Inquiry questions keep us open to possibilities and enable us...
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