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Behaviour Drives Performance Excellence

There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for highly effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. Here is the reality check. Few people are willing to

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Accountability Leads Collaboration

While accountability is effective in establishing behaviour based expectations for performance, the key is to remain focused on improved and effective behaviour change. Repeating ineffective behaviour that is revealed in feedback and accountability ultimately creates a great deal of damage

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Correcting Your Zero

You’ve maybe heard the saying “Correcting Your Zero”. It refers to a starting point and sight-adjustment for rifle marksmanship. In essence, at the organizational level we have a misaligned zero of personal performance revealed by the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of

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Is Your Workplace Cooperative?

Cooperation is the act of participating, contributing, or helping to advance or accomplish a goal. It is similar to collaboration in that cooperation requires the input of many people. It is different from collaboration in that those involved in cooperation

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Collaboration is the Key!

Research evidence supports collaborative environments and points to improvements in organizational climate, better understanding of organizational goals and expectations, greater individual and leader accountability, lower turnover, and higher retention of leader candidates. There is a caveat, however, in that while

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What is Meaningful Connection?

Connection increases a leader’s influence among followers, and this influence in turn spurs followers to do more: improve their behaviour, develop their skills and talents, work better and harder, seek and participate in collaborations or teams, and achieve greater results.

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Adaptability – Resiliency to Respond to Changing Events

Developing a strategy for ‘Connection’ can have enormous influence on the way your people think and connect and plays an important role in fundamental transformation of any businesses culture and work environment. There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be

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Lasting Organizational Change

When done right, employee attitude, satisfaction and/or engagement surveys provide valuable information to the organization. Too often however, leaders do not take seriously the workplace barriers and emotional barriers identified by their employees. Corporate survey efforts become a way to

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Deep Emotional Connection – Is It Needed?

“If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” –Gilbert Amelio, former CEO of Apple. Methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People

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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Look Like?

Part of our understanding about stress and managing our response to it, is being aware of and using the strengths of our individual behaviour patterns. We all know that change and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven

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