Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you to form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective leader.
Achieving the goal of effective leadership requires daily practice of managing yourself well within your behaviour strength domain. This requires the motivation to change and to acknowledge through self-awareness how your behaviour impacts others around you. Then use your behaviour strength(s) to know why it is you choose to behave the way you do. With this knowledge you now have to make a conscience choice to change those areas you discover about yourself that are hindering your effectiveness.
Leadership is not simply a buzzword but an action. Leadership is being an active participant in the management of others and organizations. Change is rarely welcomed. In fact, in most cases it will make you uncomfortable because it forces you to make a conscience effort to do something different. Change forces you out of your comfort zone and long-held standard practices and mental models.
To effectively lead others you must be a great leader and acknowledge as Jim Collins said, “good is the enemy of great.” You cannot create great organizations and become great leaders if you are unwilling to change those elements of your behaviour that you accept as ‘good enough’. Effective leadership means peak performance and it is a full time, daily pursuit. As a peak performer you are committed not only to your own success but to the success of others. You support and encourage others around you and do what you can to help them achieve their goals and succeed in the pursuit of their mission.
Once you understand your behaviour strengths and why you behave they way you do, you can then,
through self-awareness, understand how you impact others. So it is that you must be empowered with a purpose and a motivation to change. John Maynard Keyes said, “that the hardest thing is not to get people to accept new ideas; it is to get them to forget the old ones.”
If you want to become an great leader, you must change the elements of your behaviour that may be ‘good enough’ but are holding you back from great personal and professional achievement. The skill of Positive Presence leads to a new way of thinking and being that when mastered is the natural state of a highly skilled change agent.
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.