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Making the People Connection

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

The greatest of all leaders understand that methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People do. Therefore, it is people not processes, with whom organizational leaders must form a long-lasting, positive, emotional connection. This connection is actually…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, brain, collaboration, emotional connection, engage, habits, needs, neurochemical performance, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, self-awareness, success, Trust
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The Principle of Followership

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. What maybe misattributed as generational gaps is that everywhere, middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership…

Tagged with: awareness, change, collaboration, communication, compassionate, connection, Emotions, empathic, focus, followership, goals, leader, leadership, listening, management, objectives, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-talk, team
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Crossing the Age-Gap

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

An analysis of 20 studies with nearly 20,000 people revealed slight and inconsistent differences in job attitudes when comparing generational groups. While many love to point out that younger and older people are more different than alike, research refutes this…

Tagged with: attitudes, brand image, collaboration, culture, engagement, Flexibility, generational gap, internal dynamic, leadership, needs, positive presence, Respect, Strategy, wellbeing
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Teamwork Drives Organizational Performance

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Influential leaders know how to create and sustain highly functional teams that are resilient and engaged. Team building is not about technical skill. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour and putting the focus on behaviour skill competencies…

Tagged with: absenteeism, accountability, behaviour, burnout, collaboration, compassion, engaged, expectations, Hope, innate strengths, mental skills, performance, positive presence, quality, resilient, safety, Stability, teams, Trust, turnover, wellbeing
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The Way to a Culture of Engagement

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

It has been said many times in a variety of ways and deserves repeating here: people never connect to the organization’s mission and vision until they first connect with their leader. Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal…

Tagged with: behaviour habits, collaboration, compassion, connect, connection, culture, Emotions, engagement, Excellence, Hope, initiative, leader, manager, mindset, mission, performance, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, results, safety, skillsets, strengths, success, team building, Trust, vision
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Constructive Conflict and Confrontation

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

If you are listening to research coming from the Neurosciences (Brain Science) and how it relates to the complexity of today’s work environment, you will understand that it is your electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy that creates your mindset. For a positive…

Tagged with: accountable, Authenticity, behaviour, brain science, collaboration, conflict, Confrontation, connection, neurosciences, perception, positive mindset, positive presence, productive, Trust
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Leadership Behaviour Feedback

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Albert Einstein wrote, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” I would like to expand his words to also read that these significant problems cannot be…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, feedback, human energy, leaders, meaningful relationships, performance, positive presence, purposeful self-evaluation, self-awareness
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Employee Engagement 2025

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Leadership failure rarely is the result of the absence of technical skill and intellect, but incompetence in behavioural skill. You only need to look at the headlines of the most recent business publication to substantiate the credibility of this statement.…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, engagement, influence, leadership, management, organizational performance, performance, positive presence, self-awareness
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The People Energy in Performance

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s workforce the talent pool of technically competent people fluctuates. While everyone still competes to hire people with strong technical skills, it is becoming increasingly clear that performance is a function of both technical skill and behaviour capacity. Furthermore,…

Tagged with: behaviour, Brain neurological energy, change, collaboration, complexity, culture, leaders, performance, positive presence, stress, thought habits
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The Skill of Positive Presence for Emotional Awareness

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: accountability, adapt, awareness, behaviour, brains, change, collaboration, emotional awareness, employee engagement, flex, open mind, positive presence, triggers
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