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Effective Communication is Paramount!

We have all been taught that the key to communication is listening. This is true, but you first must care before you can listen to understand effectively. Effective communication, as a highly influential trust behaviour, requires caring first, and seeking

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Communication is NOT Overrated

Technology mogul Elon Musk once tweeted out that “people are overrated.” While he would later explain that he was referring to the power of robotics and the emerging technology in both robotics and artificial intelligence, one wonders how destructive that

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The System Components of Leadership

Leadership effectiveness has three key components – not competencies – but system components – the necessary and sufficient conditions to produce results sustainable over time at a very high level. The three core components of leadership are: a. Character –

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The Intrinsic Nature of Leadership

There are basically four fundamental aspects of behaviour style: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). With a fundamental understanding of these four aspects of behaviour patterns and how they affect connection,

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What’s Your Leadership Style

There are essentially four behaviour preferences or styles: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). Having awareness of your dominant behaviour pattern or style as well as others’ behaviour styles is essential

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Domains of Leadership Strength

John Maynard Keyes wrote, “The hardest thing is not to get people to accept new ideas; it is to get them to forget the old ones.” Change, increased complexity, and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven world.

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The Role of Performance Coach

As a leader one of your most important roles is Performance Coach. And by far, behaviour change is THE most challenging aspect of performance coaching for team members. To adequately acknowledge the need to change your behaviour, you must be

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The Driving Force behind Behaviour

A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The

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A Leaders Playbook

Throughout the college football season, we can glean many valuable leadership behaviour lessons that are so applicable to the work we do at The Frisina Group and The Center for Influential Leadership. Thinking of behaviour and its critical link to

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The Secret to Leadership Development

If you are a senior leader, you have to ask yourself, how committed am I to real change in my organization and what am I doing to create that change? Senior leaders create strategic vision and objectives for the organization.

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