The fastest way to derail any collaborative efforts in an organization is an individual leader’s negative behaviour. Over time, negative experiences erode a leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective…
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Are you a Positive Professional Role Model?
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Collaboration Engages Employees
Today’s complexity, ambiguity and rapid change bring with it the realization that in today’s knowledge-based organizations, and particularly healthcare organizations, it is difficult – or more accurately, impossible — for any one leadership group, on its own, to achieve organizational…
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Don’t Settle For ‘Good’
If you asked someone how they are doing, how different do you feel based upon the response between them saying, “I am good” or “I am great?” Now apply that to business or health care, if I asked you how…
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The Performance Gap
Performance is the product of what we are capable of doing (technical skill) multiplied by what we are willing to do (motivation). In health care delivery, as in other high-risk industries, a gap between these two elements of performance can…
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Creating Real Change
Think about all the people who have had leadership responsibility and authority over you. Who inspired, believed, and encouraged you? When I reflect on this question, several teachers— from grade school to graduate school—come to mind. These teachers pushed me…
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Behaviour Smarts
Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective and influential leader as you stop being merely a boss. Achieving…
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The 4 Domains of Leadership Strength
Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? Have you ever wondered why other people’s behaviour rubs you the wrong way? A core belief of an Influential Leader is that the people they lead want to…
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This New Year: A New Mindset
The business and professional climates that we work in today are getting increasingly more complex, more ambiguous, more demanding, and in continuous fast-paced change. Each day the markets in which we compete grow as technology increases the reach of our…
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance
The truth is that the so-called soft skills of behaviour are really the hard skills that create the measure of influence for performance success. Time and again the fundamental problems related to the lack of engagement and work performance enhancement…
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