When I’m in the wilderness, I love looking up into the sky and
feeling awestruck by the magnitude of the universe. It blows my mind
when I try to comprehend that that every star is a sun like ours. I feel
both tiny in comparison and connected to infinite possibilities.
We’ve all experienced awe. We have those experiences that stop you in your tracks, catch your breath and open your heart and mind.
It turns out these experiences are important because they actually positively affect health and well-being. Studies found people who experience the emotion of awe felt they had more time, were less impatient and more willing to volunteer to help others.
As a magician I make awe work for me. I often say I manipulate my audience’s feelings for their own benefit. The experience of awe opens people’s minds, and activates their creativity and problem solving skills. It has the potential to create a deep and meaningful impact.
The more awestruck you are, the better I’ve done my job. As a manager, you can use the same principles to manipulate your team for their own benefit.
What Inspires The Feeling Of Awe?
While the feeling of awe is subjective, there are a few common traits:
1. When implementing large organizational changes
Change can affect morale, commitment and productivity. When people become worried, they start becoming focused on their own needs. By facilitating experiences that use awe, you help your team to shift perspective from that of worry to seeing the positive opportunities that change brings.
2. Resolving conflicts
Conflict is often a result of only seeing things from a single perspective. Awe is a pattern interrupt. By nature, awe expands someone’s thinking. This is useful when people are stuck in old patterns and need to shift their perspective.
3. Improving communication
I recently posted about The Empathy Toy - a tool that gets people to experience how easily miscommunications can occur, and elicits self learning and adjustment of communication. Participating in an experience like that creates moments of awe and wonder.
4. Inspiring Innovation
Awe lurks in the heart of innovation. People who ponder how to fly, go faster or make something more efficient all harness the power of awe. When you want your team to think big, awe is a great way to get them there.
5. Problem solving
Effective problem solving requires big picture thinking and the ability to see things from different perspectives. Awe helps to inspire new connections and ideas.
Whether you are helping to break the everyday routine to spark some creativity, innovation and problem solving or you need to make changes and resolve conflict, awe is a powerful tool to influence your team members for their benefit.
A little awe can go a long way.
About the Author
Dan Trommater is a Speaker and Magician who transforms passive event attendees into engaged participants with unique keynotes and workshops. By using world-class magic, humour, stories and interactive exercises he delivers a powerful message about learning to see things from other people’s perspective. This provides business and life changing opportunities for those who adopt it. Connect with Dan on Linkedin and visit him at www.dantrommater.com.
We’ve all experienced awe. We have those experiences that stop you in your tracks, catch your breath and open your heart and mind.
It turns out these experiences are important because they actually positively affect health and well-being. Studies found people who experience the emotion of awe felt they had more time, were less impatient and more willing to volunteer to help others.
As a manager, you can create experiences that inspire awe as a way to
engage your team and bring them closer together. You can use it to sell
your product or services more effectively. Or, you can use it to amaze
your customers and turn them into raving fans. And why not? As a tool for influence awe is incredibly effective.
As a magician I make awe work for me. I often say I manipulate my audience’s feelings for their own benefit. The experience of awe opens people’s minds, and activates their creativity and problem solving skills. It has the potential to create a deep and meaningful impact.
The more awestruck you are, the better I’ve done my job. As a manager, you can use the same principles to manipulate your team for their own benefit.
What Inspires The Feeling Of Awe?
While the feeling of awe is subjective, there are a few common traits:
- The unknown - the pursuit of understanding the unknown inspires scientists, scholars, explorers and enthusiasts alike.
- Nature - mountains, oceans, natural wonders, exotic animals.
- Extreme size - what we see in the sky, or through a magnifying glass.
- Technology - the possibilities of what it allows us to do and the rate it changes.
- The future, and in some cases the past. We are amazed about what is to come and the history of the world.
- Mastery - People who have really mastered their craft often are awe-inspiring. Watching a Cirque Du Soliel show is a prime example of this.
- The unexpected - when your expectations are defied, you can get a moment of wonder.
- Generosity - acts of kindness, unconditional love and generosity.
5 Situations In Which Awe Can Help Influence Your Team To Their Benefit
1. When implementing large organizational changes
Change can affect morale, commitment and productivity. When people become worried, they start becoming focused on their own needs. By facilitating experiences that use awe, you help your team to shift perspective from that of worry to seeing the positive opportunities that change brings.
2. Resolving conflicts
Conflict is often a result of only seeing things from a single perspective. Awe is a pattern interrupt. By nature, awe expands someone’s thinking. This is useful when people are stuck in old patterns and need to shift their perspective.
3. Improving communication
I recently posted about The Empathy Toy - a tool that gets people to experience how easily miscommunications can occur, and elicits self learning and adjustment of communication. Participating in an experience like that creates moments of awe and wonder.
4. Inspiring Innovation
Awe lurks in the heart of innovation. People who ponder how to fly, go faster or make something more efficient all harness the power of awe. When you want your team to think big, awe is a great way to get them there.
5. Problem solving
Effective problem solving requires big picture thinking and the ability to see things from different perspectives. Awe helps to inspire new connections and ideas.
Make Your Team Awesome!
Whether you are helping to break the everyday routine to spark some creativity, innovation and problem solving or you need to make changes and resolve conflict, awe is a powerful tool to influence your team members for their benefit.
A little awe can go a long way.
About the Author
Dan Trommater is a Speaker and Magician who transforms passive event attendees into engaged participants with unique keynotes and workshops. By using world-class magic, humour, stories and interactive exercises he delivers a powerful message about learning to see things from other people’s perspective. This provides business and life changing opportunities for those who adopt it. Connect with Dan on Linkedin and visit him at www.dantrommater.com.
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