At the heart of a high-functioning integrated team in a performance driven culture, is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, ‘influential leader’ behaviour skills. Every team member is an influential leader regardless of rank or title. What’s more, people pay more attention to behaviour than to words. It is influential-leader behaviour, not words, that determines how engaged, agile and productive the team is. Influential-leader behaviour skills are what we ‘see’ in the workplace. These are the behaviours of collaboration and connection. These behaviours have been studied and the science has confirmed that they only occur when individuals have cultivated a positive and energized mindset focused on team performance and goals.
To survive and succeed in today’s environment of the knowledge workforce calls for a new kind of training and support that starts with a focus on individual mindset and behaviour – training and support at the management and front-line level. Unfortunately, this duty is often ignored in the name of financial and time restrictions, but it needn’t be. The skill of Positive Presence is a new and deliberate way of thinking and behaving that makes the connection between positive human energy and behaviour and is easily practiced and developed right on the job. For many, it is just a lot of common sense, but for others it is a slow and gentle process that requires the help of both team mates and leaders.
Connecting leader behaviour to a performance driven culture requires a corporative attitude that begins with the skill of Positive Presence™. The skill of Positive Presence is the innate ability in every individual to adjust for and create a positive and energized mind-set. It is a learned skill, unique to every individual. It is also the intrinsic skill that drives what we call the influential-leader behaviours of collaboration and connection.
Implementing a business improving process of Positive Presence is a journey of awareness, relationships and organizational connection that will bring the human element of organizational performance to the forefront of success in today’s knowledge economy of connection.
CORPORATE HARMONY is grateful to Dr. Michael E. Frisina for his contributions to this entry.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.