Knowing how to create and sustain highly functional teams is a leader’s duty. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour not technical skill. Leaders must focus on behaviour skill competencies that allow technical skills to blend into a high level of workplace performance. This workplace performance translates into safety, quality, and service outcomes. Therefore, individual behaviour is at the heart of a people culture.
Nonetheless, a national poll of workers in the United States by The Conference Board found that 45 percent reported being satisfied with their work while the remaining number admitted to withholding discretionary performance effort. This is the lowest level of work satisfaction reported in thirty years. Translated to execution of strategy, this means the current work force does as little work as possible to avoid losing their jobs — not creating, innovating, or growing their organizations.
Substandard performance in organizations is not a product of deficient technical skills but deficient behavioural skills. The organization that can create a collaborative culture will become the industry model for achieving performance excellence. Essential to creating a collaborative culture is the mutual exchange of feedback on performance through the use of feedback tools, course corrections, authentic and transparent communication, and a degree of trust found only in a very few high performing organizations.
These high performing organizations invest highly in providing their people with the necessary training to understand behaviour and to create the high-functioning thought habits that drive success-focused behaviours. The skill of Positive Presence™ is your ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset that will drive the strength-based behaviour that leads to peak performance, strong relationships and organizational wellness.
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.