Are You Motivated to Change?
Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you to form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective…
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)…
Focus On Behaviour, Not Technical Skills
It is behaviour and relationship skills that bring out the technical competencies and enable the job of a leader to be done well. At higher levels of leadership (e.g., chief…
Self-Awareness: The Basic Competency
In our ever-increasing competitive business climate, organizations continue to seek any advantage that will give them edge on their competition. Many have found that one solution is to improve their…
The Mental Muscle of Attention
The technological revolution of the 21st century has rendered time management ideas and skills of the past obsolete. The saying that “Time can’t be managed – it just is” has…
The Trust Quotient
The word trust is derived from the German word trost, meaning comfort. This is an appropriate association because when we trust someone, we are comforted by the belief that this…
Leading Amid Complexity
Significant change initiatives, in organizations today, often focus on technology and process neglecting to take the human factor, the people, into equal consideration. Regardless of the industry and the cliché,…
Are Your Values a Positive Force?
Knowing your values is extremely important to acquiring a resilient and energized mindset. A personal value is an individual's absolute or relative and ethical value, the assumption of which can…
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…
Understanding Your Behaviour
Research in the neurosciences has shown there is a continuous looping and re-looping of energy both positive and negative, between a person’s two dominant human energy fields -- the heart…