Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

Most traditional team-building retreats and activities create short-lived euphoria and positivity within a team that fizzles soon after the event. This is because these activities use artificial constructs designed to force people to act in positive ways and temporarily push aside their Saboteurs.

“Vision lives in the PQ Brain. If you stay in the vision conversation long enough, you activate the PQ Brain in both yourself and your client. That brain is more creative in figuring out a plan and overcoming obstacles.” Another person added, “If you began planning while you were still operating with the Survivor Brain, you would get bogged down be

PQ stands for Positive Intelligence Quotient. Your PQ is your Positive Intelligence score, expressed as a percentage, ranging from 0 to 100.

His elevated PQ had allowed him to see that his happiness was not dependent on the external circumstances of his life. He

that all your upset feelings are self-generated through your Saboteurs.

how you feel about this moment in time has far less to do with what you are doing, and far more to do with how you are doing it. To be even more specific, it has to do with whether you are in PQ Brain or Survivor Brain mode as you carry out any task.

ease up on control to enable his team’s collective wisdom and power to emerge.

If action is required, the Sage is quite decisive and takes the necessary steps. It

The sustainable way to build a high-PQ team requires a twofold focus: (1) help the team members increase their individual PQs; (2) train the team to pay attention to the PQ Channel during team interactions.