Many leaders are unaware of the needs and concerns of their workforce. Unmet needs produce strong negative feelings and resentment. These employees become complainers, cynics, and faultfinders. They resist change, and they disengage from the culture and all initiatives. They…
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The Seven Employee Needs
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The Five Basic Leader Behaviour Skills
At the heart of organizational performance and a performance driven culture is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, individual leader behaviour skills. To help you reframe and refocus your thinking on behaviour competency to drive performance, consider…
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Jerks at Work
No one wants to work with the proverbial jerk at work. These people are disruptive to performance and productivity and are now making their organizations targets for lawsuits. Note that performance failure typically is not the result of the absence…
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Are Your People Connections Positive or Negative?
What is it that achieves results for organizations to succeed? Is it the methods, tools, technologies, protocols and systems, or is it the people? There is no doubt – it is your people that achieve results. The methods, tools, technologies,…
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Are You Leading in the Dark? Three Lights of Accountability
In a collaborative culture accountability is a visible practice and framework. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s mission, vision, values, and how they personally fit into the framework. They are given…
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How Behaviour drives Employee Engagement
It is not uncommon in today’s business culture, to find organizations where someone is in charge of engagement as though you could assign it or delegate it. A culture of engagement is nothing more than the total sum of each…
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An Energized Workplace: The 4 Steps Recapped
As we recap the 4 Step Process for an energized workforce outlined in my previous posts it becomes clear that leaders of the future will have to do far more ‘inside’ work than was required of their predecessors. Step 1…
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An Energized Workplace: Step 4
When we accept that in today’s economy, all organizations are quickly becoming knowledge-based organizations (if they’re not already) made up predominantly of educated employees who are often professionals in their own right; And when we accept that the nature itself…
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An Energized Workplace: Step 3
One of the most detrimental beliefs in today’s business world is that a stress-free work environment will result in happy workers. But is that true? In fact, is that even realistic? The global workforce has changed employment patterns in all…