In today’s world of organizations there is a real desire for authentic leadership. Being an authentic leader means you must understand how you relate to others and then learn to adjust your behaviour accordingly to deal with others in a…
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Do You Have a Toxic Work Environment?
Some surveys show that as many as half of all front-line workers feel low levels of work engagement stemming in part from poor leadership. If any one person, regardless of technical ability, cannot connect and cooperate with other people, the…
Tagged with: attitude, behavioural competency, cooperate, detrimental, engagement, leadership, performance, positive presence, strength-driving behaviours, toxic work environment
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Are You Exercising Your Mind?
Meditation is actually exercise for the mind and trains the mind to be present and go beyond all thought – strengthening the muscle of the mind by placing focus on the present. Where we focus is a choice and with…
Tagged with: awareness, brain, Emotions, empathy, exercise, happy hormones, meditation, mind, positive presence, present, relationship, well-being
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Meditation for Workplace Wellness
Benefits of workplace meditation are becoming increasingly clear. Participants feel less depressed and less emotionally exhausted, and above all, less stressed. We have figured out every possible way to exercise our physical body … the next frontier is our mind…
Tagged with: brain, emotional resilience, exercise, meditation, overload, positive emotions, positive presence, prefrontal cortex, stress reduction, wellness
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Are You Motivated to Change?
Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you to form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective leader. Achieving the goal of effective leadership requires daily practice…
Tagged with: Achievement, behaviour, behaviour strengths, change, collaborations, effectiveness, leadership, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, success
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Mindfulness for Stress Release
The complexity, ambiguity and relentless pace of today’s pandemic driven world places gigantic demands on business leaders in every industry. Leaders are working incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They are…
Tagged with: ambiguity, change, complexity, Creativity, emotional intelligence, energized, engagement, focus, mental health, mindfulness, neuroscience, positive presence, Stability, strategic-thinking, stress, thoughts
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What is Your Leadership Strength?
Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? To help answer this question, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie have classified leadership strengths into four domains: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, behaviour preference, collaboration, connection, leadership, performance, positive presence, relationships, strength, success
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Learning from HeartMath
Well over 20 years ago Doc Childre and a group of 30 researchers and entrepreneurs gathered to explore the connection between the metaphorical and physical heart, and in 1991 they formed the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) as a nonprofit research…
Tagged with: anxiety, Autonomic Nervous System, coherence, consciousness, culture, Emotional, feelings, health, HeartMath, mental, performance, positive presence, productivity, stress, success, synergy, thoughts, torus, wellbeing
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Focus On Behaviour, Not Technical Skills
It is behaviour and relationship skills that bring out the technical competencies and enable the job of a leader to be done well. At higher levels of leadership (e.g., chief executives), technical skills are even less important than good behaviour…
Tagged with: behaviour, collaborative, connective, greatness, leader, performance, positive presence, relationship, relationships, self-aware
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