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In Real Life – Social Interaction

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I’ve always been a huge advocate of face to face contact whenever possible. It provides a more effective platform for communicating, it feels more sincere, and it allows for greater clarity–all of which reduce the likelihood of a misunderstanding and make a more compelling case for succeeding at an intended accomplishment. It seemed intuitive to me that the loss of eye contact and real-life interaction lowers the connectivity and mutual understanding involved in an interaction, and my professional and personal experience have proven that suspicion to be true. Beyond the intuition and the support of communication theory, however, it appears that there are concrete biological indicators to validate these suppositions. As Susan Pinker explains in her TED talk, social interaction helps us to live longer, healthier lives; watch as she explains more, including how “face-to-face contact releases a whole cascade of neurotransmitters, and like a vaccine, they protect you now in the present and well into the future. So simply making eye contact with somebody, shaking hands, giving somebody a high-five is enough to release oxytocin, which increases your level of trust and it lowers your cortisol levels. So it lowers your stress.” It’s just one more way that being an effective, competent and caring leader not only makes you stronger and better at your job, it also makes for a better life.

 

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Being Genuine Online

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I have a chapter in my book entitled “Turn Your Organization into a Force for Good,” and it’s a concept I feel very strongly about. Leaders have the ability to galvanize entities into action, and it’s important to optimize that potential to do good in our communities. In the same regard, I really find it to be a moral imperative that as leaders, we offer as much positivity and inspiration to others as we’re able.

While this certainly applies to our organizations and communities, it extends beyond that into the realm of social media as well. The current climate of what can best be described as conflicting and full of animosity is toxic, and we can all do better. Whether we are leaders or aspiring leaders in our professional lives or not, we can apply the principles of Big Hearted Leadership to our individual presence on social media to make a concerted effort at changing the nature of the conversation.

Being generous in your genuineness is one of the five pillars of Big-Hearted Leadership, and applying this principle to our social media lives could go a long way towards improving the climate. As a society, we value vulnerability and the courage to be authentic in others, yet it can be incredibly hard for us to exhibit these qualities ourselves. Big-Hearted Leaders take this risk, and they do it wholeheartedly and with enthusiasm. If each of us vows to increase our willingness to be genuine, and we extend this to our social media channels, we will transform the content our social circles are consuming, thereby initiating momentum for them to feel emboldened to become more genuine in their interactions. We are the authors of social media’s fate, so let’s make it a force for good.

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