There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for highly effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. Here is the reality check. Few people are willing to do the hard work at the essential level to create and sustain those relationships. When you ask yourself the question of how you achieve a “collaborative performance driven culture,” you have to begin by treating culture like any other performance indicator. You achieve this by developing and sustaining highly, effective and functional relationships among key leaders and their teams within the organization.
Survey upon survey continues to reveal that core members of an organization rate mutual respect as the singular most important organizational value. Organizational performance is predicated upon every individual in the organization learning, applying, and sustaining, highly effective behaviour skills. If you desire to become a “go to” person of your organization, you have to accept personal responsibility and accountability for your behaviour. Such behaviour includes all that is related to what we choose to think, what we choose to believe, how we create and focus our attitudes, and how we choose to form our habits.
Changing your behaviour is not something that comes easily. You unconsciously (or not) lack the willingness to change even when you have the knowledge and the capability to do so. You even may unconsciously lack the willingness to change your habits, even when you know doing so serves your own best interest in the most critical personal, familial, and professional relationships. For many, it is recognizing the need to change your habits, and then it is finding the knowledge and tools needed for making a lasting change through the creation of new habits. Acquiring the skill of Positive Presence gives you the resources and tools you need to make new mindset and behaviour habits.
John Paul Getty may have said it best with these words, “The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him – and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.”
CORPORATE HARMONY is grateful to Dr. Michael E. Frisina for his contributions to this entry.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.