Can we place too much emphasis on the need for open and effective communication? There are entire books, lectures, and even professional organizations dedicated to researching and improving overall communication in the workforce. What all this attention on communication says…
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Why Effective Communication Matters
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The #1 KPI for Future Leaders
Successful leadership of the future will require a complete culture shift to a new leadership mindset of connectivity. In the developed world, our organizations are now composed primarily of knowledge workers – people who have a lot of education and…
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Top Three Leadership Capacities for Exceptional Performance
It’s a simple question – what is the difference between leading and managing? While many of us can explain the difference between the two, the fact remains that many of us go about daily behaviour simply managing, without making the…
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How Behaviour drives Employee Engagement
It is not uncommon in today’s business culture, to find organizations where someone is in charge of engagement as though you could assign it or delegate it. A culture of engagement is nothing more than the total sum of each…
Tagged with: accountability, culture, emotional connection, engaged workforce, engagement, mind set, organizational performance, positive presence, productivity, responsibility
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The Employee Engagement Roller Coaster
The climate that we work in today is getting increasingly more competitive and our organizations are more complex and ambiguous than ever before in history. Each day the markets in which we compete grow and change. In this increasingly competitive…
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One Bad Apple
Many of us have heard the phrase “one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil the whole lot. Many…
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Creating Integrated Teams
We have all heard throughout our lives the importance and value of teamwork. Even as children, on sports teams and in school, we have consistently been influenced by the concept of teamwork. So how do we take these long held…
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An Energized Workplace: The 4 Steps Recapped
As we recap the 4 Step Process for an energized workforce outlined in my previous posts it becomes clear that leaders of the future will have to do far more ‘inside’ work than was required of their predecessors. Step 1…
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An Energized Workplace: Step 4
When we accept that in today’s economy, all organizations are quickly becoming knowledge-based organizations (if they’re not already) made up predominantly of educated employees who are often professionals in their own right; And when we accept that the nature itself…
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An Energized Workplace: Step 3
One of the most detrimental beliefs in today’s business world is that a stress-free work environment will result in happy workers. But is that true? In fact, is that even realistic? The global workforce has changed employment patterns in all…