Slides from Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau\'s presentation at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centers Leadership Colloquium. The presentation is based on Michael and Jason\'s bestselling book entitled "Fired Up or Burned out."

1. CREATING A CONNECTION CULTURE Michael Lee Stallard & Jason Pankau

3. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT DEFINED

5. RESEARCH

6. ORANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

10. HUMAN NEEDS TO THRIVE Meaning Personal Growth Autonomy (Freedom) Recognition Belonging Respect

19. THE CORPORATE EQUATION + Task Excellence The Connection Culture

20. ELEMENTS OF CONNECTION Core Elements 1. Human Value 2. Inspiring Identity 3. Knowledge Flow Enabling Elements 4. Committed Members 5. Servant Leaders

27. VALUE “ What we can do is construct an environment that nurtures trusting and respectful relationships and unleashes everyone’s creativity. If we get it right, the result is a vibrant community where talented people are loyal to one another and their collective work, everyone feels that they are part of something extraordinary, and their passion and accomplishments make the community a magnet for talented people coming out of schools or working at other places. I know what I’m describing is the antithesis of the free-agency practices that prevail in the movie industry, but that’s the point: I believe that community matters .” - Ed Catmull, President, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios

28. VALUE

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31. VOICE Richard Feynman

32. VOICE “ Complete transformation! They began to invent ways of doing it better. They improved the scheme. They worked at night. They didn’t need supervising in the night; they didn’t need anything. They understood everything; they invented several of the programs that we used…my boys really came through, and all that had to be done was to tell them what it was, that’s all. As a result, although it took them nine months to do three problems before, we did nine problems in three months, which is nearly ten times as fast.” - Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist

33. VOICE

34. “ That didn’t happen in other armies . . . Rommel did not have a suggestion box outside his door. Eisenhower did. Bradley did.” - Historian Stephen Ambrose VOICE

35. VOICE According to her colleagues: “She told us everything, stuff we didn’t want to know [like how close we were to running out of cash].” “Part of her DNA is to tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

36. VOICE

37. 1. Leader fails to encourage other points of view 2. Internal rivals 3. Fiefdoms 4. Isolationist culture KNOWLEDGE TRAPS

38. KNOWLEDGE FLOW SESSIONS

39. CONNECTION FORMULA V ISION + V ALUE + V OICE = Connection

40. ELEMENTS OF CONNECTION Core Elements 1. Human Value 2. Inspiring Identity 3. Knowledge Flow Enabling Elements 4. Committed Members 5. Servant Leaders

43. “ Ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.” -- Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden CHARACTER STRENGTHS

44. CHARACTER STRENGTHS “ Coach Wooden had a profound influence on me as an athlete, but an even greater influence on me as a human being. He is responsible, in part, for the person I am today.” - Kareem Abdul Jabbar

45. ELEMENT #1: VISION

46. “… while there are indeed great, often unfathomable forces in history before which even the most exceptional of individuals seem insignificant, the wonder is how often events turn upon a single personality, or the quality we call character.” -- Historian David McCullough CHARACTER STRENGTHS

47. “ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ” -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. CHARACTER STRENGTHS

48. ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTER

49. American Psychology Association study Leading psychologists Global study Identified 24 specific character strengths CHARACTER STRENGTHS

50. CHARACTER STRENGTHS General George C. Marshall

51. CHARACTER STRENGTHS “ I’m sorry Mr. President, I don’t agree with you at all.” -- General George C. Marshall

53. “ Most men are slaves of ambition. General Marshall is a slave of his duties.” “ I have never seen a task of such magnitude performed by a man” “ You have inspired us with your single-mindedness of purpose and selfless devotion to our common cause.” CHARACTER STRENGTHS -- Senator Henry Stimson -- British Officers’ Letter to Marshall

54. Operation Overlord CHARACTER STRENGTHS

55. “… when I disapprove [of Marshall’s recommendations], I don’t have to look over my shoulder to see which way he is going…I know he is going…to give me the most loyal support as chief of staff that any president could wish.” -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt CHARACTER STRENGTHS

56. “ Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, desperation, and chaos.” -- George C. Marshall Speech at Harvard University in 1953 The Marshall Plan CHARACTER STRENGTHS

57. CHARACTER AND CONNECTION Who will you choose to become? Intentional Disconnector Unintentional Disconnector  Intentional Connector 

59. SERVANT LEADERS The Connection Culture

60. Actionable examples 20 stories of great leaders Questions for team study LEARN FROM LEADERS Free download for the next 2 days at: www.MichaelLeeStallard.com