The belief that a leader’s behaviour is the key predictor to organizational performance is a radical shift in leadership thinking. To develop a performance driven culture a key element is to begin to focus not on the technical elements and…
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Connecting Behaviour to Performance
Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour based feedback, behaviour development, culture, employee engagement, leadership, organizational performance, positive presence, thinking
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Why Leadership Efforts Fail
Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms, business, sports, and tax-exempt organizations. People are captivated and confused…
Inspiring Others to Embrace Change
What makes people, who possess knowledge about what they need to do to actually improve their performance, alter and change their behaviour? The answer is volition- a purposeful, intentional choice. People choose to change their behaviour when they have a…
Leadership Interactions Are Positive or Negative
The greatest of all leaders understand that methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People do. Therefore, it is people not processes, with whom organizational leaders must form a long-lasting, positive, emotional connection. This connection actually is…
Tagged with: accountability, brain cells, collaboration, collaborative, compassion, Hope, neurochemical performance cocktail, positive emotional connection, positive presence, principle of connection, professional behaviour, relationships, responsible behaviour, safety, self-awareness, Trust
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A Culture Built For Performance
In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. What maybe misattributed as generational gaps is that everywhere, middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership…
Leaders Create the Culture that Drives their Brand
There seems to be a lot of discussion about generational gaps in the workplace with understanding how millennials fit into today’s organizations. A recent Deloitte survey found that many of the performance drivers once associated with previous age demographics do…
People Are the Heart of Performance
It has been said many times in a variety of ways and deserves repeating here: people never connect to the organization’s mission and vision until they first connect with their leader. Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal…
Taking Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation
The presence of highly developed positive neuronal connections among leaders and team members does not mean the absence of conflict and confrontation. On the contrary, a culture that embraces collaboration and connection welcomes constructive conflict and confrontation. The operative word…
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Why We Behave the Way We Do
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…