One of the key characteristics of influential leaders is their ability to stimulate volition in themselves and among their followers. They do this by creating a sense of urgency, living a life with purpose, and pursuing excellence. When you choose to take this step in your leadership behaviour, you will see profound impact on your resulting outcomes, goals, and objectives.
As research indicates, actively motivated and engaged team members work harder, have less instances of loss, and reduced errors, mistakes, tardiness, and sick leave. This occurs because the connection forged through behaviour change impacts those who work with you to pursue excellence and focus less on the conviction of just doing their jobs. As Simon Sinek (Start with Why) suggests, “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe they are making a positive difference, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”
If you’re not changing, you’re not living, so if you believe change is hard, wait until you are experiencing the painful effect of not changing. Life experience provides little mercy to those who are unwilling to change. Transformational change is directly linked to the cause and effect relationship of our thinking. Nothing changes until our thinking changes.
Some say you can behave your way into better, more positive thinking – but only if you trust the new behaviour. For most people, change works in the other direction – you think about the current circumstance or behaviour, and feel the emotion that comes from dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs, and you feel the desire for something better – that’s what drives you to try something new in behaviour.
Unfortunately, the period between choosing to change and the change action or changed behaviour can be difficult for most people. Understanding the skill of Positive Presence and the neuroscience and brain research behind the skill, provides the techniques and exercises that you need. Positive Presence is an innovative thought model connecting workplace behaviour to human energy and the learning process provides a systematic, programmatic methodology for equipping leaders with the knowledge and understanding necessary for inspiring others to transition to positive, more effective thought and behaviour habits. Change your thinking, you change behaviour. Change behaviour and you change your future.
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.