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The Principle of Followership

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. What maybe misattributed as generational gaps is that everywhere, middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership

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The Seven Employee Needs – What’s Missing?

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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Emotional Awareness Using Your Skill of Positive Presence

Authenticity, humility, honesty, and courage are hallmark leadership traits that research has attributed to a leader’s emotional awareness. In today’s knowledge economy in which the majority of your workforce is made up of knowledge workers – those people whose jobs

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The Skill of Positive Presence for Emotional Awareness

Influential leaders are highly practiced with the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and it places them in a position to model emotionally balanced behaviour. More important, it enables them to be responsive to others’ needs, which is a primary contributor to

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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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The Emotional Bank – How Wealthy Are You?

Self-examination reveals many things, including your level of sincerity, which is a trait all enlightened leaders share. Sincerity is synonymous with genuineness, honesty, and authenticity. In his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey presented the

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Are You Exercising Your Mind?

Meditation is actually exercise for the mind and trains the mind to be present and go beyond all thought – strengthening the muscle of the mind by placing focus on the present. Where we focus is a choice and with

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What is Your Leadership Strength?

Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way?   To help answer this question, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie have classified leadership strengths into four domains: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and

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The Five Domains of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

In leadership development we hear a lot about Emotional Intelligence (or EQ). In his 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence”, Daniel Goleman brought the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) to the mainstream of business theory. The key premise of EQ is it

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Your Emotional Behaviour

As a leader, awareness of self and others is the most critical factor there is. This awareness translates into a knowledge and understanding of the different types of people personalities and the way they will typically interact with each other

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