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3 Steps to Positive Confrontation

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people can be energized, engaged, and fully aware of their meaningful contributions to the enterprise. Much of the personal and organizational…

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The Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Even constructive conflict and confrontation makes the best of us anxious for a variety of reasons that include the following: 1. Conflict and confrontation force us to be accountable. The core of a conflict or confrontation within a team is…

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Keeping Conflict and Confrontation Constructive

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Everyone faces it — conflict and confrontation. It cannot be avoided in today’s fast-paced workplace … but it doesn’t have to be a negative experience. We can choose it to be, well if not positive, at least constructive. The first…

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Are You Change Capable?

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s knowledge economy your behaviour is the most critical element in your performance, and you have the ability to manage it. If you conduct a self-examination, you will learn why and how to transform your daily routine from simply…

Tagged with: actions to improve, behaviour, change, Emotions, habits, knowledge economy, mindsets, Negative, performance, positive presence, Resistance, self-awareness, self-examination
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Leaders that Hinder Connection

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

You cannot make a connection with others if you are not connected to yourself. That simple truth gets lost in the daily flurry of activity in the workplace. Even the most conscientious leaders can be blind to habits that serve…

Tagged with: barriers, behaviour, blind spots, command-and-control, connection, cooperative attitudes, efficiency, integrated teamwork, knowledge workers, leaders, performance, production, productivity, self-awareness
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Workplace Connectedness

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

As the knowledge economy evolves amidst the chaos and complexity, so too leadership, as we’ve always known it, must also evolve and change. Today’s environment of chaos and complexity rends the idea of leader as controller and guardian an impossible…

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The Five Generations

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Understanding your behaviour style and the behaviour styles of your team is invaluable today in creating high performance in your organization. Today five generations of people make up the current workforce in Canada – silent or traditional (born before 1946),…

Tagged with: Baby boomers, behaviour style, Behavioural, culture, emotional awareness, five generations, Generation Z, listening, millennial, motivating employees, performance, positive presence, team, traditional
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Workplace Behaviour – What’s Your Style?

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Your emotions are your response to your thinking and mental patterns. Your mental patterns, in turn predict your behavioural style. Your behavioural style has the ability to stir up emotions in others. Behavioural style, or social/communication style, is the way…

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The human factors of Ineffective Communication

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Much of the communication today in business and health care entails an exchange, wherein all parties involved must act as both giver and recipient of information. This exchange ensures that the information is received and the recipient has an opportunity…

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Life With A Purpose

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Colonel Joshua Chamberlin, an 1863 British soldier demonstrated the power of living a life of purpose. Discovering your life’s purpose stimulates volition, urging you to perform at a higher level. Performance rather than success should be the goal because success…

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