Passionate Leadership

Passionate Leadership Vol 1.3 It’s a new decade. Isn’t it time to fall in love with your work?  Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting and host of Passionate Leadership interviews relationship expert, Dr. Gary Lewandowski, to learn about the connection between romantic love and loving your work. It may be the best 11 minutes you ever spent listening to a podcast!

Companies like Starbucks and GE have built teams that have accomplished great business outcomes. What can we learn from them about how to connect the passions of a team to the jobs you ask them to do?  That’s the question we explore on today’s show, with Jocelyn Johnson, a senior leader from GE, who applied her passion as a Transformer to the development of her team. Although GE has a long and respected reputation for strong talent development processes, Jocelyn went out on the edge and tried something different. Did it work? Tune in!

The Passionate Leadership podcast series highlights the ways in which leaders build high performing teams and leverage their own passions to achieve great results. In this inaugural podcast, Purpose Linked Consulting’s Co-Founder, Alaina Love, and clinical psychologist, Dr. Sharene Garaman, examine the Builder passion, both its strengths and its shadow side. Together, they explore the fascinating ways in which Builder charisma can manifest as narcissism and erode workplace engagement.

How to build a deeper connection between what we’re paid to do and what we love to do. Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about so employees will care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system to determine what drives employees’ passions