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A Culture Built For Performance

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers, and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional connection with your people you send a clear message that…

Tagged with: behaviour, connection, culture, human energy, Knowledge, leader, mediocrity, motivation, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, purpose, scarcity, team, thought model
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The Principle of Followership

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. What maybe misattributed as generational gaps is that everywhere, middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership…

Tagged with: awareness, change, collaboration, communication, compassionate, connection, Emotions, empathic, focus, followership, goals, leader, leadership, listening, management, objectives, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-talk, team
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How Leaders Create Culture

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

The ancient Greek aphorism, “Know Thyself,” can be attributed most notably to the philosopher Socrates, however, for the more modern generation of folks you are probably familiar with its Latin version that hung above the Oracle’s door in the Matrix…

Tagged with: behaviour, compassionate, culture, Emotions, empathic, engagement, ethics, Influential leaders, leaders, performance, positive presence, purposeful, relationship, self-awareness, success, values
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Crossing the Age-Gap

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

An analysis of 20 studies with nearly 20,000 people revealed slight and inconsistent differences in job attitudes when comparing generational groups. While many love to point out that younger and older people are more different than alike, research refutes this…

Tagged with: attitudes, brand image, collaboration, culture, engagement, Flexibility, generational gap, internal dynamic, leadership, needs, positive presence, Respect, Strategy, wellbeing
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Teamwork Drives Organizational Performance

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Influential leaders know how to create and sustain highly functional teams that are resilient and engaged. Team building is not about technical skill. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour and putting the focus on behaviour skill competencies…

Tagged with: absenteeism, accountability, behaviour, burnout, collaboration, compassion, engaged, expectations, Hope, innate strengths, mental skills, performance, positive presence, quality, resilient, safety, Stability, teams, Trust, turnover, wellbeing
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The Way to a Culture of Engagement

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

It has been said many times in a variety of ways and deserves repeating here: people never connect to the organization’s mission and vision until they first connect with their leader. Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal…

Tagged with: behaviour habits, collaboration, compassion, connect, connection, culture, Emotions, engagement, Excellence, Hope, initiative, leader, manager, mindset, mission, performance, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, results, safety, skillsets, strengths, success, team building, Trust, vision
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Are You Paying Attention

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Here is the simple truth: Employees can tell the difference between authentic leaders and those who are simply trying to fake it to make it. This distinction is apparent in the way people behave and interact with others, and no…

Tagged with: attention, authentic leaders, behaviour, connect, emotional connections, engagement, goal, listening, performance, positive, positive presence, relationships, team
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We Get What We Create

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Sigmund Freud, so the story goes, went to his grave perplexed by the question “What do women want?” I wonder if it ever occurred to Freud to simply ask a woman. In business, puzzled leaders do ask their employees what…

Tagged with: attitude, connections, culture, Emotional, engagement, leaders, performance, positive, positive presence, purpose, relationship, supportive, team, workplace
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Taking Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation

Posted on June 24, 2025 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…

Tagged with: behaviour, conflict, Confrontation, culture, energized, engaged, Growth, leaders, mindset, positive presence, prosperity, purpose, relationships, thought habits
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Constructive Conflict and Confrontation

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

If you are listening to research coming from the Neurosciences (Brain Science) and how it relates to the complexity of today’s work environment, you will understand that it is your electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy that creates your mindset. For a positive…

Tagged with: accountable, Authenticity, behaviour, brain science, collaboration, conflict, Confrontation, connection, neurosciences, perception, positive mindset, positive presence, productive, Trust
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