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• Silos and internal competition
• Feedback and managing poor performers
• Implementing change is difficult
• Power of the informal grapevine
• Performance appraisal system
Common Frustrations for Leaders
Hardwired Human Instincts
Emotion Before Reason
First Impressions to Classify
Source: Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, Managing The Human Animal, and Harvard Business Review July–August 1998
Quick to Judge – a Teacher
Evaluation after a full semester (13 teachers)
Source: Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From This Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol 64. Mo 3, 431-441
Accepting Active
AnxiousAttentive
competentConfidentDominant
EmpatheticEnthusiastic
HonestLikeable
OptimisticProfessionalSupportive
Warm
Quick to Judge – a Teacher
Evaluation after a full semester (13 teachers)
Source: Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From This Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol 64. Mo 3, 431-441
30 seconds
AcceptingActive
AnxiousAttentive
competentConfidentDominant
EmpatheticEnthusiastic
HonestLikeable
OptimisticProfessionalSupportive
Warm
Quick to Judge – a Teacher
Evaluation after a full semester (13 teachers)
Source: Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From This Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol 64. Mo 3, 431-441
30 seconds
Accepting (0.6)Active (0.89)
AnxiousAttentive
competentConfidentDominant
EmpatheticEnthusiastic
HonestLikeable
OptimisticProfessionalSupportive
Warm
Quick to Judge – a Teacher
Evaluation after a full semester (13 teachers)
Source: Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From This Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol 64. Mo 3, 431-441
30 seconds
15 seconds
Accepting (0.6)Active (0.89)
AnxiousAttentive
competentConfidentDominant
EmpatheticEnthusiastic
HonestLikeable
OptimisticProfessionalSupportive
Warm
Quick to Judge – a Teacher
Evaluation after a full semester (13 teachers)
Source: Nalini Ambady and Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From This Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1993, Vol 64. Mo 3, 431-441
30 seconds
15 seconds
Accepting (0.6)Active (0.89)
AnxiousAttentive
competentConfidentDominant
EmpatheticEnthusiastic
HonestLikeable
OptimisticProfessionalSupportive
Warm
6 secs
Good Idea Bad Idea
Being Understood
2 seconds = First 7 Words
Source: Andrew O’Keeffe, Hardwired Humans
Hardwired Human Instincts
Emotion Before Reason
First Impressions to Classify
Loss Aversion
Source: Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, Managing The Human Animal, and Harvard Business Review July–August 1998
Hardwired Human Instincts
Contest and Display
Social Belonging – Family of 7 and Clan of up to 150
Emotions Before Reason
First Impressions to Classify
Loss Aversion
Gossip
Confidence Before Realism
Empathy and Mind Reading
Hierarchy and Status
Source: Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, Managing The Human Animal, and Harvard Business Review July–August 1998