1. How Full is Your Bucket? Strategies for Leaders
Denise Cameron
Manager, Human Resources

2. What is a Leader?
True leadership has nothing to do with one’s level in the organization
Leadership is like an iceberg
2 primary components
What you see above the water
What you can’t see below the water
Leadership is more about what others don’t see then what they see
A leader has the responsibility to be the example
There are many individuals in the world who don’t hold leadership positions, yet they provide leadership all the time, in the same token there are individuals who are in positions of leadership and they are not exerting much leadership at all.
20 % of the iceberg is visible the other 80% is not.

3. Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket
Everyone has an invisible bucket
When Full
We feel Great
When Empty
We feel Awful
Everyone has an invisible dipper
When we fill someone’s bucket
We Fill our own
When we dip from people’s bucket
We diminish our own

4. Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket
A full bucket gives us a positive outlook & renewed energy
Every drop makes us stronger & more optimistic
Empty buckets poisons our outlook, saps our energy & undermines our will

5. Negativity Kills The Ultimate Weapon:
Deny emotional Support that comes from interpersonal relationships
How:
Informing
Self-criticism
Breaking loyalty to leadership and country
Withholding all positive emotional support
Example from the Korean prisoner of war camp:
By incouraging informing – it breaks relationships and turn people against each other
By forcing self-criticism it causes the lose of respect and goodwill
Loyalty was broke by slowly and relentlessly undermining allegiance to superior
By withholding all positive emotional support (only allowing negative letters, showing bills overdue, etc) causes one to lose belief in self and loved ones and develop a sense of hopelessness.
These tactics created an emotional and psychological isolation. It takes the fight out of the person.

6. The Study of Positively
If negativity can kill, can positivity have an even stronger impact on the person and their psyche?
While most of our negative experiences will not kill us they will slowly but surely erode our well-being & productivity.

7. The Study of Positively in Organizations
Bucket filling in organizations have
Two critical components:
Recognition
Praise

8. The Study of Positively in Organizations
The majority of us don’t give or receive the amount of praise that we should. The result is:
Less Productivity
Disengagement in our jobs
Counter productive behavior:
Stirring up trouble
Whining
Complaining
Paranoia

9. The Study of Positively in Organizations
In short, negative work environments:
Kill productivity
Brings employee energy down
Scares customers away

10. The Study of Positively in Organizations
Remember, every moment matters.
Speak to your employees
Recognize good Performance
Focus on the positive
By doing these things you……….
Create Positive Emotions

11. The Study of Positively in Organizations
Positive emotions:
Protects from and undo negative ones
Fuel resilience and can transform people
Broaden our thinking, encouraging us to discover new lines of thought or action
Break down racial barriers
Build durable physical, intellectual, social and psychological resources that can functions “reserves” during trying times
Produce optimal function in organizations and individuals
Improve the overall performance of a group (when the leaders express more positive emotions)

12. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 1
Prevent Bucket Dipping
With each interaction ask yourself:
Did I just add to or take away from the person’s bucket?

13. People will not give you their hand
Until they see
Your heart.
John Maxwell

14. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 2
Shine a Light on What is Right
Focus on the positive in a person instead of the negative.
The Result:
You fill a bucket and you set something into motion
Complete Positive impact Test.

15. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 2
Complete Positive Impact Test
Questions.
(Hand out)

16. You must gain the trust of your people if you don't have their trust,
You'll never be a great leader.
Trust
Increase your leadership credibility by consistently living the value and walking the talk

17. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 3
Make Best Friends
People with a best friend at work have:
Better safety records
Receive higher customer satisfaction scores
Increased workplace productivity

18. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 4
Give Unexpectedly
In your own interaction look for opportunities to give small gifts to others out of the blue:
A funny trinket
A hug (not everyone is a hugger)
Offer to grab a cup of coffee
Sharing books, articles, or stories that would positively influence someone’s day
Even a smile can be an unexpected gift
Gift with book Clifton Strengths Finder at back. Droplets for bucket filling

19. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 5
Reverse the Golden Rule
Instead of
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
Consider:
“Do unto others as they would have you do unto them”
Pass out the Bucket filling interview.

20. The Five Strategies For increasing Positive Emotions
Strategy 5
Conduct the bucket filling interview with each person at your table

21. Watching Your Words
The most important conversations you hold in life are the ones you hold with yourself.
Practice talking to yourself using positive language
Learn to see the value of the contribution you make at work
Notice how your “self-talk” influences your beliefs, choices, and actions
Make sure you do not talk yourself out of what might be possible
Tell yourself that an effective work and life balance is a definite possibility and develop an “I can” mindset
Adopt a new vocabulary that can help you overcome doubt, anxiety, cynicism and tiredness

22. Making Choices
People constantly make choices that influence their lives
It is easy to feel that you are not in control of your actions or your decision, but the reality is that you are
Always consider the consequences of your choices for yourself and others – remember that your actions do not just affect you, they affect those around you.
Think about the choices you make at work that effect your life.
Points to Remember:
Changing your “self talk” can change your life
The results you achieve depend on the choices and decisions that you make
Your are responsible for the choices that you make, and
You can take control of your work and life

23. What choice will you make Daily Will you fill Buckets? Or
Will you dip from Buckets?
Your decision will profoundly influence
Relationships
Productivity
Health
Happiness