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The Value of Behaviour Style aka Social/Communication Style

As a human you are a complex manufacturing plant for electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy.  Positive emotions exist in positive energy.  Your energy is basically your thoughts and feelings which manifest into the physical world as behaviour.  Learning and developing your skill

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Employee Needs – Why Should I Care?

Many organizations are at a loss when it comes to building culture. CEOs are quick to put their top leaders into a room for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, and expect a culture change. As an

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The Seven Employee Needs – What’s Missing?

Many leaders are unaware of the needs and concerns of their workforce. Unmet needs produce strong negative feelings and resentment. These employees become complainers, cynics, and faultfinders. They resist change, and they disengage from the culture and all initiatives. They

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Understanding Emotional Needs In Today’s Chaos

Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal title or role) who possess the mind and behaviour habits that create positive and energized emotions within themselves and around them.  They are emotionally aware leaders, and they actively seek information

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4 Traits of Emotionally Aware Leaders

As we move through the knowledge era toward the Age of Connection (aka The Network Society) due to the internet, the necessity for emotionally aware leadership is absolutely critical for organizational success.  Research and experts have identified at least four

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Emotional Awareness – How Do You Engage?

Its important to note that, for the most part, your brain is not wired for the positive – you are actually predisposed to the negative.  But, your brain can be easily taught to recognize the negative, then release the negative,

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Emotional Awareness Using Your Skill of Positive Presence

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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5 Questions to Becoming An Emotionally Aware Leader

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,

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Is Your Emotional Energy Positive?

A leader’s words, attitudes, and behaviour have the ability to incite various negative and/or positive emotions in their employees. Even followers who manage their emotions well can be affected by this emotional energy. It is the inadvertent or unconscious control

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Emotional Awareness – A Must for Organizational Wellness

Leaders without emotional awareness, do not relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact

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