Authenticity, humility, honesty, and courage are hallmark leadership traits that research has attributed to a leader’s emotional awareness. In today’s knowledge economy in which the majority of your workforce is made up of knowledge workers – those people whose jobs…
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Emotional Awareness – Where Are You?
Tagged with: Authenticity, behaviour, brain, courage, crisis, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, engagement, honesty, humility, knowledge economy, knowledge workers, negative emotions, performance, positive presence, relationships
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LEADING HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH CHAOS
Let’s face it, if we are not changing, chances are we’re not alive. Resistance to change is normal and natural. You see, the minute your brain realizes you are moving out of your ‘comfort zone’…it automatically sets off the famous…
Tagged with: attitude, change, change-resistance, chaos, complex, disruptive, emotional energy, front lines, health, health care, healthcare, mindset, organizational systems, positive presence, public service, relationships, resilience, stress, stress response, wellness
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Emotions at work – A Simple Strategy
Emotionally aware leaders understand their own (and, by extension, their employees) emotional triggers. Emotional triggers are people, events, conditions, or experiences that arouse intense negative reactions. Incompetence, micromanagement, constantly missing or incomplete information, arrogant and superior attitude, lack of communication,…
Tagged with: emotional patterns, emotional reactions, Emotions, health, leaders, mental models, neurosciences, performance, relationships, Strategy, triggers
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Emotional Awareness as a Key Strategy
Without emotional awareness, you cannot relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, you are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact…
Tagged with: attitudes, dysfunctions, economic instability, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, thoughts, triggered
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LEADING CHANGE THROUGH CHAOS
Let’s face it, if we are not changing, chances are we’re not alive. Resistance to change is normal and natural. You see, the minute your brain realizes you are moving out of your ‘comfort zone’…it automatically sets off the famous…
Tagged with: attitude, change, change-resistance, chaos, complex, disruptive, emotional energy, front lines, mindset, organizational systems, positive presence, public service, relationships, resilience, Resistance, stress, stress response, wellness
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The Emotional Dimension of Performance
Human emotions are as complex as they are varied. In a span of one day, we all experience a significant number of emotional highs and lows. An average person in a high-stress environment may experience even more. Emotions do not…
The New Leadership Paradigm
The knowledge economy and the subsequent ‘human’ economy as some refer to it, has presented the business world with the need for a huge paradigm shift on a global scale. As organizational success increasingly depends on the ability of the…
Tagged with: brain-power, change, co-workers, cognitive strength, Confirmation bias, emotional energy, human’ economy, knowledge economy, knowledge-based, leadership, mechanistic, mind-health, neurosciences, organizational, organizational behavior, organizations, Paradigm, positive presence, quantum physics, relationship, systemic
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Leadership Development in Today’s World
A critical problem in management generally is scarcity of leaders who possess the necessary ‘Influential Leadership’ behaviours that propel organizations to greatness and guide them through significant challenges. There are plenty of managers and leaders who possess superb technical, operational…
Tagged with: behaviours, continuous improvement, development, influential leadership, leadership, management, performance, positive human energy, quality, success, thought patterns, workplace
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The Behaviour Element of Performance Excellence
Performance can be illustrated by this simple formula: Performance= technical skill x behavioural skill. In high-risk industries, such as health care delivery, an imbalance between these two elements of performance (technical skill and behavioural skill) can result in poor work…
Tagged with: accountable, ambiguous, awareness, behaviour, behaviour habits, challenges, complex, development, dysfunctional behaviours, Excellence, human behaviours, human energy, influential leader, leadership positions, motivation, outcomes, performance, positive presence, thought habits, training
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The Artful Apology
At the heart of sustaining highly effective relationships is the skill of expressing an artful apology. There are various excuses people give for refusing to apologize for inappropriate, disrespectful, rude, and a host of other more toxic behaviours. Whatever the…