Influential leaders know how to create and sustain highly functional teams that are resilient and engaged. Team building is not about technical skill. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour and putting the focus on behaviour skill competencies that will allow technical skills to blend into a high level of workplace performance. This workplace performance translates into safety, quality, and service outcomes.
According to the 2025 Global Leadership Report: What Followers Want, “To face the evolving challenges of our time successfully, leaders must ultimately know three things. First leaders and managers must know the four highest needs of their followers, which are: hope, trust, compassion and stability; second, they must know themselves and invest in their innate strengths as leaders; and third, they must know the demands of – and expectations attached to – their specific leadership role.”
Gallup’s 2025 Global State of the Workplace Report states that after several years of steady improvement in worker satisfaction, global employee life evaluations fell to 33% in the last two years, with manager wellbeing seeing the greatest decline at 5%. What this means is the current work force
is less engaged. Manager burnout eventually leads to declining performance, increased absenteeism and increased turnover – impacting the people they lead and the organization itself.
The research proves that Substandard performance in organizations is not a product of deficient technical skills but deficient behavioural and mental skills. The organization that can, through influential leadership, create a collaborative culture will become the industry model for achieving performance excellence. Learning the skill of Positive Presence will, by its very nature, create a culture of accountability and collaboration – a huge bonus and necessity in today’s global work environment.
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.