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The Value of Behaviour Style aka Social/Communication Style

As a human you are a complex manufacturing plant for electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy.  Positive emotions exist in positive energy.  Your energy is basically your thoughts and feelings which manifest into the physical world as behaviour.  Learning and developing your skill

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Employee Needs – Why Should I Care?

Many organizations are at a loss when it comes to building culture. CEOs are quick to put their top leaders into a room for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, and expect a culture change. As an

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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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Understanding Emotional Needs In Today’s Chaos

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

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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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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

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Leadership Development in Today’s World

A number of factors contribute to the failure of leadership development programs today. Among these is the limited participation by senior leadership in the training and in holding people accountable for changing behaviour following the training. Limited participation signals a

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Performance Excellence – The Formula

Performance can be illustrated by this simple formula: Performance= technical skill x behavioural skill. In high-risk industries, such as health care delivery, an imbalance between these two elements of performance (technical skill and behavioural skill) can result in poor work

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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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