Do you ever go to work and ask yourself, “How can I perform my very best today?” If you are asking that question, have you ever asked, “What do I need to do to perform to my full potential?” As…
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Great Leaders Don’t Learn From Crisis
Tagged with: behaviour, crisis, emotional intelligence, human response capacity, Improvement, initiative, leaders, lower brain, performance, potential, problem solve, self-assess, thinking, Upper Brain
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High-Performance Behaviour
Research and personal experiences are telling us that the phenomenon of ‘re-wiring’ through the neuro-plasticity of your brain is easier than it may sound. In fact anyone with a keen self-awareness and some really good coaching can, through their conscious…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, brain-power, change, coaching, complexity, efficiency, energized, human energy, neuro-plasticity, neuroscientists, positive emotional energy, positive feelings, positive presence, productivity, self-awareness
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The Intrinsic Nature of Leadership
There are four fundamental aspects of behaviour patterns: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). With a fundamental understanding of the four aspects of behaviour patterns and how they affect connection, collaboration,…
Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour strengths, change, Character, collaboration, commitment, competence, connection, emotional capacity, engagement, leadership, positive presence
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The Driving Force behind Behaviour
A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, Confirmation bias, external behaviour, internal drivers, neuroscience, positive presence, self-management
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A Leaders Playbook
Throughout the college football season, we can glean many valuable leadership behaviour lessons that are so applicable to the work we do at The Frisina Group and The Center for Influential Leadership. Thinking of behaviour and its critical link to…
Connecting Behaviour to Performance
The belief that a leader’s behaviour is the key predictor to organizational performance is a radical shift in leadership thinking. To develop a performance driven culture a key element is to begin to focus not on the technical elements and…
Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour based feedback, behaviour development, culture, employee engagement, leadership, organizational performance, positive presence, thinking
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Why Leadership Efforts Fail
Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms, business, sports, and tax-exempt organizations. People are captivated and confused…
Understanding Emotional Needs Today
Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal title or role) who possess the mind and behaviour habits that create positive and energized emotions within themselves and around them. They are emotionally aware leaders, and they actively seek information…
Emotional Awareness – Where Are You?
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…
Tagged with: Authenticity, behaviour, brain, courage, crisis, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, engagement, honesty, humility, knowledge economy, knowledge workers, negative emotions, performance, positive presence, relationships
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The Emotional Dimension of Performance
Human emotions are as complex as they are varied. In a span of one day, we all experience a significant number of emotional highs and lows. An average person in a high-stress environment may experience even more. Emotions do not…