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The Five Basic Leader Behaviour Skills

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

At the heart of organizational performance and a performance driven culture is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, individual leader behaviour skills. To help you reframe and refocus your thinking on behaviour competency to drive performance, consider…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, communication, culture, human energy, performance, values
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What Worked Then, Won’t Work Now!

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

The prevalence of knowledge workers and the knowledge workforce is actually less than three decades old, and we all know change is mostly slow and painful. But the truth of the matter is what worked for success in the 1990’s…

Jerks at Work

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

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…

The Cost of No Change

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

Changing behaviour is not something we like to do. Generally, being human means we lack the willingness to change even when we have the knowledge and the capability to do so. In fact, we lack the willingness to change even…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, disruptive behaviours, positive presence, relationships
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The Secret to Effective, Functional Relationships

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. It is actually these relationships that make you human and without…

Do You Have A Fully Optimized Brain And Mind?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

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. Collaborative relationships in the workplace are created through a special kind of ‘connection’ with others –…

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Six Behaviour Attitudes of Enlightened Leadership

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

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

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

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.…

Do You Have The Right Stuff For Followers?

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Catherine Osborne

Organizational performance can rise no higher than the collective performance of its people. With the arrival of the knowledge economy, organizations are transitioning on a global scale from a mechanistic environment of linear control, to a systemic environment of complexity.…