SENSEI LEADER Movement Update June 14, 2018

Hi, Jim Bouchard with the Sensei Leader Movement, and wanted to get this up and early this morning because we've got a few changes today. First of all, I want to make everyone aware still of our online workshop that's going on today at noon Eastern time, and I have an apology to issue about that. We're still getting used to the Zoom platform, and it was completely my fault. I set the time for the workshop to start at 12 AM, at midnight, And I don't know if any of you were up at that time, but obviously the workshop didn't happen at midnight. I should have set it for noon today, 12 PM. So anyway, what we did, we had to put another link up. We had to technically had to create another event. And so everyone who was registered already for the workshop today, that's Don't Motivate, Inspire at noon today. We've sent you the new link. So all you got to do, you don't have to re-register anything, just go pop the new link on and you'll be able to join the meeting. The good news is that means we were able to open up a few more spots, so I'm gonna put the new registration link below. If you've got time at noon today and you want to join us for that online workshop, "Don't Motivate, Inspire," all you have to do is click on that link and you'll be able to come to the meeting at noon today, Eastern Time. And let's say a couple things, real quick updates. Check out Mike Neal on Walking the Walk, the latest episode of Walking the Walk. Just go to thesensileader.com, hit the blog button— I'm sorry, the podcast button— and you'll be right there. He was talking about member-centric culture, and it was a terrific talk. Had a really good time with him. He focuses on the credit union world. Credit union folks, you're going to really enjoy that, but his ideas apply to all businesses. If we treat everyone in our constituency base as members and we treat them accordingly, good things happen. So check that out on Walking the Walk podcast. And watch coming up— we're either going to do this tomorrow or early next week— Dr. John Tantillo, our dear friend. The Marketing Doctor, America's Marketing Doctor. We're going to talk about the leadership of President Trump in regard to his meeting with Kim Jong-un. True leadership or a branding stunt? You'll be able to weigh in, give us your opinions on it. We're going to hear the perspective from America's Marketing Doctor. He did several articles on that for some major magazines that he works with. Also, check out the blog. Make sure you're staying up to date on the blog. We've got one going viral. It's called "Kill the Manager." Not quite what you think about it. Before you take out the pitchforks and the torches, make sure you get on there and understand what we're talking about. Kill the manager. You know, we've created this evil villain that we call the manager lately, and what it is, it's about getting rid of those parts of us that are ineffective, that are holding us back from being a true, authentic, and effective leader. So that's what we're talking about there. So just again, go on the SenseiLeader.com, hit the blog button, and you'll go right there. Now, one feature we wanted to add to the updates by popular demand— it's cool to be able to say that— I'm going to address some questions and comments that you're sending in. And one of them that came in the other day is a great question: What do you do when you're working your butt off but the people still don't appreciate it? And that's a question I hear from leaders at workshops all the time. What do you do when you're really working hard for your people and they just don't appreciate it? In fact, we're going to do a whole online workshop about that question. That's an important question, but let me give you a brief on it. Basically, the responses we've developed through the workshops are these. First of all, if that's really the case, if you're really genuinely and sincerely working hard for your people and they just don't get it, you've got to do some self-examination, and you've got to decide whether or not that person is in the right place. It might not be a good fit for them, and the best thing you can do is to end that relationship. Sometimes you have to, you know, you have to cut ties. Stephen Covey famously said— I love his ultimate out clause, right? His philosophy was win-win or no deal, and the no deal part is what's applicable here. If someone genuinely isn't a good fit, if you really are working hard for your people and they're not appreciating it, you might have the wrong people in place. Now other than that, it still goes back to self-reflection, self-examination. Are you truly getting the message across? Are you making sure that people are working toward that higher purpose that we're always talking about? And not just for incentives. By the way, that's something we're going to dig into in detail in today's online workshop, Don't Motivate, Inspire. So if you want to go into more detail there, come join us at noontime today. But really, the short story is that, are you doing the things that are inspirational, not just motivational? Are you doing something above and beyond just incentives? And I touched on a little bit last update, but I'll really quickly go through it. Incentives aren't all that effective. In fact, some researchers are showing now that incentives can be destructive, and here's why. If they're positive incentives, let's say a bonus or monetary incentive, they only work up to a certain degree. And you only produce an effort up to that expectation. And a negative incentive, which is a punishment basically, all right, all that does is it causes people to revolt. It's just a matter of when. None of those things work very effectively. If you want that discretionary effort, people going the extra mile, then you've got to stop worrying about motivation and start worrying about inspiration. And there's many, many ways to do that. First of all, you got to make sure you're walking the walk, obviously. If you want people to be enthusiastic, then be enthusiastic. Alright, that's one of the keys to it. And make sure that you've got a clear purpose, a clear reason that people are working that's above and beyond anybody's individual expectations, and motivations. There's nothing wrong with motivations. Motivations are more individual, and we need to talk— we'll dig into that a little bit at the workshop today too. Okay, so that's what you can do. And finally, make sure that you are effectively communicating. And I've made this mistake in the past too. I thought I was really going the extra mile for people, and they weren't appreciating it, and I realized that I wasn't getting the message across. I wasn't getting the message across clearly. And that starts with something we've been talking a lot about. You know, the conventional wisdom always says you got to get people to buy in to whatever you're doing, right? Forget that. Buy-in doesn't work. That's crap. You got to start asking, and I'm not trying to make a cute pun there. The more we can involve people early and often and ask them what their focus is— do they understand the mission? Are they on board with the mission? Okay, and if not, why not? And we establish that early and often. Involve them in creating the purpose and the mission and the vision. Then you don't have to do any buy-in. Then people are on board right from the start. So those are the 3 things you can do if you're really working hard. And really ask yourself if you are working all that hard too. That's, that's a big one too. And like I said, none of us are immune from that. There are times when I thought I was really going the extra mile and I found out, no, I was kind of fooling myself. So that's what we'll do. And if you have a question or a comment, something you'd like to talk about, just add it to the comments below. One thing about the comments below too, I'd like to say, you know, we do some mentions, some shoutouts for people as we're doing these updates now. If I call your name out, or even if I don't, if you want us to promote you, just put your link in the comments below. There's lots of good folks that are associated with the Sensei Leader Movement. We want to make sure you're recognized. So for instance, Dr. Tantillo, I don't see— he's usually up pretty early, but I don't see him on today. It's marketingdoctor.tv, okay? Just put that in the link below. I'll put it in for Dr. Tantillo today. All right. What else we got going on? We got exciting meetings in Boston going on next week with our partners from Kenya. Nana Wanjau, check out her site, Branding Beyond Borders. Terrific. And her CSR effort, Corporate Social Responsibility effort, is called Power Women International. We'll be meeting with her to talk about the schedule in Kenya. As soon as we get some firm dates, we'll be making those announcements. And really special thanks, and I'll put the links for these folks today, special thanks this week to Judy Hoberman and to Corey Jackson because they helped us. Our CSR, our corporate social responsibility effort, really has to do with incarcerated youth. And here near our home in Maine, I work with a program. We do a leadership program called Lion at the Long Creek Youth Development Center. Terrific group of kids there. We've been Skyping in some guests. They've been fantastic. And Judy Heuermann and Corey Jackson over the last couple of weeks donated time to Skype in and talk with us and share their, their life story and how they've been successful and so on and so forth. Terrific. It turned into personal coaching sessions, which was really, really cool. So Judy and Corey, thank you so much for helping us in that effort. And by the way, if I'm in your town or in your area and you have a facility for incarcerated youth in that area, I'm very, very glad to do a session for them, a leadership session for them. All you need to do is get in touch with me when I'm coming to your town and we'll make that happen. Now, yeah, several live events and workshops coming up July and August. First one I want to mention is the CU Leadership Convention in Las Vegas, July 31st through August 3rd. I'm not sure which date I'm presenting yet. We're doing— we're working on uncertainty there, and we're uncertain about the date, which is kind of ironic, or not ironic. But at any rate, if you're attending that CU Leadership Convention and you'd like to do meet and greet, we're going to set one up probably right in the hotel. We'll be working at the Mirage there in Las Vegas, right on the Strip.. And if you wanna spend some time, some quality time, we're gonna set that up, we'll make that announcement. So please, people from the CU world that are attending that event, would love to spend some time with you, learn more about your organizations, and we'll make that happen. Same thing August 16th at the NAWIC, National Association of Women in Construction, their annual conference in Orlando, Florida. We'll be working on an aspiring leaders track there on the 16th. And same thing, if you're attending that NAWIC conference, please, please hook up with us. We had a great time with you guys in Nashville. Love to see you again and learn more about what you're up to now. So we'll be doing hospitality at both of those. Other coming events: Alabama, Texas, Kansas City. If you'd like to book an event when we're already scheduled in town, we really try to go the extra mile to make, make some preferred rates for folks. So if your organization, your association would like to book a Sensei Leader event, please get in touch with us. Alabama, Texas, in Kansas City coming up, anywhere in the neighborhood, give me a shout and we'll make it happen. Our next online workshop will be on how to be an effective communicator. And we've got a very, I believe, a very unique look at that. You know, most people talk about communication as a two-way process. Well, it's a multidimensional process, and we're really gonna talk about that, how to get the message across clearly, and also how to make sure that message is being received. Throw something out there when I do this update. I know there's one of two outcomes. You either understand what I'm saying or you don't. Either way, it's my responsibility, and there's a lot of things that interfere with that and can hinder or help that process, and that's what we're gonna be talking about in that online workshop. So we'll schedule that one and we'll get that up. What else should we talk about today? I'm trying to look and see who's watching. Hey, Rick, how you doing? Pamela, nice to see you. Paul Gruber, Another old Wheeler alumni. Robert, nice to see you. Sorry, I can't find a way to— can I scroll down? Anybody know how to do this? Nope, can't scroll down. So anyway, sorry, I'm still a little bit tech challenged there. But if you joined and I didn't acknowledge you and say hi, like I said, make sure you got products and services to serve the leadership community. Hey, just put your links in the comments below and make sure people can connect with you. I'll be back with you again. We're gonna try to do these just about every day, I guess. And like I said, what we'll do is right up at the top of it, we'll do the questions and the topics, comments that you want to talk about. So make sure you send those in. You can do that in the comments below, or just send me an email, jim@thesenseileader.com. Okay, anything else anybody want to talk about today? All right, we'll wrap it up for today and we'll be back with you soon. Hey, remember, all you got to do to join the Sensei Leader Movement— that's the movement that we're committed to— to restore and support human-centric leadership around the world. We've got to make sure that we bring the humanity back to leadership. That's what this is about. That's it. That's all it's about. That's our sole focus. All you need to do to join the movement is come to thesensileader.com, subscribe there, and you're a member. That's it. And you will receive the online access to the online edition of the ebook, The Sensei Leader, plus a lot of other stuff. Once you're on board, you know, people are asking, why do you need the email? Well, that's because that's how you're going to learn about all the different different activities that we're doing. For instance, the free online workshops, more ebooks. We've got the Five Rings up as well, the new book of Five Rings, which talks about five leadership tactics. That's available. Those things will come to you in emails once, once you're a member. Okay, all right, we'll talk to you soon. Thank you very much.