No one wants to work with the proverbial jerk at work. These people are disruptive to performance and productivity and are now making their organizations targets for lawsuits. Note that performance failure typically is not the result of the absence…
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The Jerk at Work
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The Power of Habit
Changing our behaviour is not something we like to do. We lack the willingness to change even when we have the knowledge and the capability to do so. We lack the willingness to change even when we know doing so…
Tagged with: behaviour, change, culture, disruptive behaviour, habits, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness, self-reflection
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The Secret to Behaviour in a Performance Driven Culture
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. It is actually these relationships that make us human and…
Tagged with: accountability, attitudes, behaviour, continuous improvement, culture, feedback, habits, mutual respect, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, self-awareness, values
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A Strategic Approach To Quality Cognitive Behaviour Development
Enlightened leaders recognize the importance of self-awareness and effective collaborative relationships and they focus their efforts on building connections with the people they lead. The six behavioural attitudes of their strategic approach to quality Cognitive Behaviour Development deserve a closer…
Six Behavioural Attitudes of Enlightened Leadership
It is a known fact that when people are engaged positively with their leader they are more likely to be engaged in their work. Enlightened leaders succeed where other leaders fail because they perform at a higher level, are more…
Leader Behaviour for a High Performing Culture
Arising from the research being done in the neurosciences, the idea of individual behaviour, group and team behaviour, and overall organizational behaviour has taken on a new importance. Behaviour is the most tangible evidence of organizational culture that there is.…
Tagged with: change, culture, group behaviour, human emotional energy, individual behaviour, knowledge economy, leader behaviour, leaders, leadership, mind-health, neurosciences, organizational behaviour, organizational culture, positive presence, team behaviour, working brain
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Do You Have The Right Stuff For Followers?
Organizational performance can rise no higher than the collective performance of its people. With the arrival of the knowledge economy, organizations transitioned on a global scale from a mechanistic environment of linear control, to a systemic environment of complexity. As…
Tagged with: compassion, complexity, followers, Hope, leader behaviour, leadership relations, organizational performance, positive presence, Stability, systemic environment, Trust
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The Social Skills of Leadership
To be human means you need relationships which in turn necessitate social ability. Winning social behaviours are well documented, and according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, social competencies can be learned and developed with practice, the same way a 20…
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You Can’t Lead if You Can’t Follow
Being the leader people want to follow requires first that you can connect by following. Enlightened leaders can connect through following others and practicing the principle of followership. Followership is a leader’s willingness to listen to those for whom they…
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Are Your People Connections Positive or Negative?
The principle of connection validates and puts into practice the concepts of self-awareness and collaboration. Self-awareness enables leaders to initiate connections with their employees, while trust and accountability – the imperatives of collaboration – allow leaders to sustain these connections.…
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