A leader’s words, attitudes, and behaviour have the ability to incite various negative and/or positive emotions in their employees. Even followers who manage their emotions well can be affected by this emotional energy. It is the inadvertent or unconscious control that leaders have over the emotional state of their followers that can distort the dynamic between management and employees, creating dysfunctions. For example, a leader who has fondness for telling jokes in the workplace may amuse some employees but may annoy, frustrate or even offend the rest. This reaction could lead to a loss of respect for the leader, especially if the employees cannot ask the boss to cut out or cut down the joking.
Furthermore, a leader’s professional decisions, strategies and actions can be taken personally by some employees and thus create an unintended emotional response. In unstable financial economic climates, everyone is nervous about losing their jobs; any change to current practices may be misconstrued as economic instability and can stimulate and elicit strong negative emotional responses such as anger and fear.
At the end of the day, if your goal as a leader is to cultivate an organization that is operating at peak performance, then you should be focused on the emotional dimension. Providing your leaders with the necessary training for them to be able to model emotionally balanced behaviour is crucial.
The skill of Positive Presence™ is an innovative thought model connecting conscious thought processes and workplace behaviour to positive emotional energy and provides a systematic, programmatic methodology for equipping leaders with the knowledge and understanding necessary for developing emotionally balanced behaviour and leading their followers to the same.
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.