What “love” means at work and why it matters

- One of the greatest leadership tools of all time is well within your grasp if you choose to take hold of it. I'm talking about leading with love. I'm leadership and self-leadership experts, Scott Mautz and I'll explain. Leading with love certainly isn't showing romantic interest in your employees, blurring boundaries, or anything inappropriate nor is it letting accountability slide in favor of compassion. Leading with love can be defined as showing others radical appreciation, radical understanding, and radical acceptance. It's frequently giving sizable doses of each even when others might find it challenging to do so. It's about having an other's orientation, engaging in your job with the human side of it front and center. Humans need love after all and employees and coworkers are no different. And when you give love, you build up people and performance. In fact, the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma has said that "To succeed in business, you need three things. High IQ, high EQ, and high LQ." A high loving quotient. McKinsey Research showed employees receiving loving responses to the Coronavirus pandemic engaged four times more deeply at work. A variety of research shows employees who feel loved stay. In fact, if you've ever left a job, there's a pretty good chance you did so at least in part because you didn't feel loved there. For years, I've been asking people what would happen if you felt loved at work? Some of the responses "I'd feel safe, free to be myself and take risks." "I'd feel like I belonged." "I'd give 110% effort." "I develop deeper friendships and connections at work." "I'd be the best version of myself." Humans work best in a loving environment and in this course, you'll learn to create just that. You'll discover specifically how to create radical appreciation, radical understanding, and radical acceptance through a variety of strategies and tactics and in ways that won't make you appear weak, flaky, or unprofessional or too personal and over the line. You'll learn to lead with love in a way that supports what you're trying to achieve at work, not undermines it. So join me in my course "Leading with Love" and you'll love the results.