Sometimes you cannot articulate why you like or dislike someone’s behaviour, because often your internal preferences are unconscious. Behaviour preference or style, aka social/communication style, has been around for decades. Basically, everyone falls into one of four styles, frequently set out in a four-quadrant format. In a leadership role, those that share your behaviour style will be easily influenced and motivated by you. That means 75% of the time — three quarters of the people you lead – will need you to adjust and ‘flex’ to their personal behaviour style in order to successfully influence, inspire, and motivate them to a higher level of performance.
Influential leaders, and those desiring to be influential in their workplaces, understand their own behaviour and the impact it has on others around them. Understanding this is critical to enhancing the performance of your workplace. Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal title or role) who possess the mind and behaviour habits that create positive and energized emotions and as such display positive behaviours that will resonate with another’s style.
Leaders of influence are highly practiced with the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and it places them in a position to model emotionally balanced behaviour. More importantly, it enables them to be agile and flexible in their behaviour in order to make positive connections with others, even in stressful situations or during a crisis event
As a leader, you are in a unique position to make a difference in peoples’ lives. Understanding of your and others behaviour styles, and developing your skill of Positive Presence, will create the ability to develop your influential leadership and transform your workplace into the peak performing environment of organizational success.
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.