Connection increases a leader’s influence among followers, and this influence in turn spurs followers to do more: improve their behaviour, develop their skills and talents, work better and harder, seek and participate in collaborations or teams, and achieve greater results.…
Blog Archives
What is Meaningful Connection?
Tagged with: behaviour, change, connection, Excellence, followers, influence, leadership, Meaningful Connection, mind, performance, positive, positive presence, Strategy, team, thinking, thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
The Brain/Behaviour Connection
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius, Joint 16th Emperor of the Roman Empire. In his book, Get Out of Your Own Way: The Five Keys to…
Tagged with: accountability, actions, attention, behaviour, brain, Choice, Competition, connection, consequences, Excellence, goals, innovative, mental model, mental patterns, mind, motivation, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, tension, thinking, thought habits, unproductive behaviours
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Adaptability – Resiliency to Respond to Changing Events
Developing a strategy for ‘Connection’ can have enormous influence on the way your people think and connect and plays an important role in fundamental transformation of any businesses culture and work environment. There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be…
Tagged with: Adaptability, alertness, Attentiveness, behaviour, change, communication, compassion, connection, culture, emotional connections, engagement, flexible, influence, leader, miscommunications, performance, Positive experiences, proactive, productivity, resiliency, self-awareness, self-examination, sensitivity, success, transformation, Trust, versatile
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Alertness – Emotional Sensitivity to Others
There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be adopted and learned in order to successfully transform a culture to one of connection: attentiveness (focus on others), alertness (emotional sensitivity to others), and adaptability (resiliency to respond to changing events). There…
Tagged with: Adaptability, alertness, Attentiveness, behaviour, compassion, connection, culture, emotional sensitivity, empathize, Hope, human, interactions, leaders, legitimate needs, Others, resiliency, sensitivity, Stability, sympathize, Trust
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Three Truths About Leadership-Follower Relations
Jason is the CEO of a large, independent service-providing organization. Highly educated, he is very talented in the business sciences and executes on those skills with flawless precision. As Jason progressed through the company, his hyper competitiveness and ambition exposed…
Tagged with: behaviour, competitiveness, connections, leader-follower relations, performance, prejudices, relationships
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
How Positive (Or Not) Are You?
Over time, negative experiences erode the leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective relations but whose behaviour does very little to advance that cause. These leaders ignore or do not…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, collaborative, connections, culture, emotional connections, leaders, morale, Negative, performance, positive, productivity, relations, Trust, turnovers
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Are You Aware Enough to Connect?
Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into relationships with your colleagues translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your…
Tagged with: behaviour, care, connections, emotional awareness, high-performance, leader behaviour, Negative, neurosciences, positive, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
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…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, cohesion, confidence, connections, credibility, emotional awareness, Emotional Bank, Emotions, harmony, mindset, performance, positive, positive presence, relationships, sincerity, Trust, unity
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Emotional Connection – The Three Points of Contact
A leader’s emotional awareness is important because employees relate to their leaders on an emotional level in several ways: First, how employees feel (e.g., awed, intimidated, indifferent, impressed) about their leader influences the way they do their job and the…