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Behaviour Accountability
Catherine Osborne – December 7, 2021
This is the most challenging aspect of the coaching and counseling process: To adequately acknowledge the need to change behaviour,...
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The Accountability of Change
Catherine Osborne – November 30, 2021
A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on...
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Managing the Human Element: The Toxic Employee
Catherine Osborne – November 23, 2021
Virtually all the advice on getting people to engage in their work and increase their productivity is predicated on a...
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When is Enough Enough?
Catherine Osborne – November 16, 2021
The human capacity for choice can be both a blessing and a curse. The capacity to choose is often times...
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Organizations Do Not Do Things – People Do
Catherine Osborne – November 9, 2021
TQM, Total Quality Management, is a philosophy first and process improvement second, however most people equate the ‘Deming Cycle’ of...
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The Deming Way
Catherine Osborne – November 2, 2021
December 20, 2021 will mark the twenty-eighth anniversary of the passing of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. As we all know,...
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Connection — Making the Choice to Change
Catherine Osborne – October 26, 2021
As often mentioned, change – whether personal or organizational – is not easy. Even when presented with clear reasons and...
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3 Steps to Positive Confrontation
Catherine Osborne – October 19, 2021
All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people...
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The Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation
Catherine Osborne – October 12, 2021
Even constructive conflict and confrontation makes the best of us anxious for a variety of reasons that include the following:...
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Keeping Conflict and Confrontation Constructive
Catherine Osborne – October 6, 2021
Everyone faces it -- conflict and confrontation. It cannot be avoided in today’s fast-paced workplace … but it doesn’t have...
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Are You Change Capable?
Catherine Osborne – September 28, 2021
In today’s knowledge economy your behaviour is the most critical element in your performance, and you have the ability to...
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Leaders that Hinder Connection
Catherine Osborne – September 21, 2021
You cannot make a connection with others if you are not connected to yourself. That simple truth gets lost in...
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Workplace Connectedness
Catherine Osborne – September 14, 2021
As the knowledge economy evolves amidst the chaos and complexity, so too leadership, as we’ve always known it, must also...
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The Five Generations
Catherine Osborne – September 7, 2021
Understanding your behaviour style and the behaviour styles of your team is invaluable today in creating high performance in your...
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Workplace Behaviour – What’s Your Style?
Catherine Osborne – August 31, 2021
Your emotions are your response to your thinking and mental patterns. Your mental patterns, in turn predict your behavioural style....
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The human factors of Ineffective Communication
Catherine Osborne – August 24, 2021
Much of the communication today in business and health care entails an exchange, wherein all parties involved must act as...
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Life With A Purpose
Catherine Osborne – August 17, 2021
Colonel Joshua Chamberlin, an 1863 British soldier demonstrated the power of living a life of purpose. Discovering your life’s purpose...
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The Urgency Imperative
Catherine Osborne – August 10, 2021
John Kotter, a well-known change expert, defines urgency as a combination of thinking, attitudes, and behaviours. Urgency is a hyper-alertness...
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Strategic Atrophy
Catherine Osborne – August 3, 2021
I was recently reading about how some leaders are not properly addressing today’s environmental and strategic threats because they continue...
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