Leadership failure rarely is the result of the absence of technical skill and intellect, but incompetence in behavioural skill. You only need to look at the headlines of the most recent business publication to substantiate the credibility of this statement. You gain higher levels of management responsibility based on your individual technical skill performance. Your overall leadership success however, is clearly dependent on your behaviour skills since senior leadership achievement is a strategic orientation rather than an operational one. Research has proven that people must engage with their leader on a personal level before they engage with their work. The truth is that the so-called soft skills of behaviour are really the hard skills that create the measure of influence in your leadership accomplishment and your organizational performance.
According to Gallup global employee engagement in 2022 was at 23%. Eighteen percent of the global workforce in 2022 was actively disengaged. In the U.S. (and Canada) these percentages were roughly 33% and 16%. In Europe, engagement levels vary per country, but generally are a lot lower than in the US (and Canada).
Time and again the fundamental problems of employees related to the lack of engagement and work performance stems from how people consistently experience their leader’s positive (or negative) behaviour. These leadership failures can be directly linked to the absence in consistent, positive behaviour to the three fundamental elements of Positive Presence leadership: Self-awareness, Collaboration, and Connection. You must remember that individual leader behaviour is singularly the most important predictor to organizational performance.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.