Be the Leader People Want to Follow
People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional…
Higher Brain Function in the Workplace
Learning to create a mindset that overrides the stress response is an invaluable skill in today’s workplace wrought with lightening-fast change, complexity and unrelenting demands. It is the neuroplasticity of…
When Coaching Doesn’t Work
Virtually all the advice on getting people to engage in their work and increase their productivity is predicated on a false assumption, namely that outside influence will result in lasting…
Coach or Cut Free?
The sad fact about chronically disruptive people is that they are rarely coachable or teachable. Human behaviour research shows us that functional environments will become dysfunctional as a result of…
How Knowledgeable Are You?
To quote from Peter Drucker in his book “Managing in the Next Society” (page 124), “… A knowledge based workforce is qualitatively different … survival, of every business will depend…
Why a Positive Mindset?
Enormous advances over the last decade in neuro-imaging technology have awakened us to the benefits of positive energy – for an increased capacity for achieving peak performance, for building and…
The ‘Why’ of Positive Power
The findings coming forward from the neuro-sciences have huge implications for business organizations on a global scale. And in fact, these findings call for a gigantic shift in how the…
Accountability Behaviour
“Leaders lead”, as the old saying goes. This is a simplistic view of what leaders actually do; it does not take into account the fact that not everything a leader…
Work-Stress and You
Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad. In…
Productivity in Today’s World
The findings coming from the neurosciences is proving that the ‘brain-power’ needed for productivity and efficiency in today’s demanding work environment can only be attained when we are in a…