“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.” Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi uttered these words As a football coach guides and directs a team of players focused on purpose, vision and championship objectives, we do the same as leaders in our organizations. Sport teams have objective standards of measurement for performance, as do we in our respective organizations striving for excellence in pursuit of our organizations goals and objectives. We would like to be perfect, no one likes to make mistakes, sadly though perfection is often an impossible goal to achieve and the means by which we try to attain perfection can lead to negative and destructive work environments.
That’s why as leaders, using collaboration as the means to build teams, we can drive performance, share governance and responsibility, and establish accountability for performance, and provide the greatest opportunity for achieving a culture of performance excellence.
Developing and enhancing your skill of Positive Presence changes your mental programming – developing resilience and self-discipline. Developing your inherent skill of Positive Presence will help you achieve the intended performance results you desire, and it aids dramatically to managing your responses to the events and crisis that occur in your daily life.
Ultimately performance is a function of technical skill and behavior skill. Resilience (aka mental toughness, aka cognitive strength) and self-discipline is necessary to manage adversity and the associated stress of challenging events, and is the essential behavior skill that drives performance of individuals and their organizations. Positive Presence Behavior Competencies – self-awareness, collaboration, and connection – are the key drivers to organizational performance, and resilience is one of the essential behavior skills. By building resilience and practicing the elements of self-discipline, you will create a strong capacity to meet and exceed any of life’s most challenging events.
CORPORATE HARMONY is grateful to Dr. Michael E. Frisina for his contributions to this entry.
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.