The Way to a Culture of Engagement
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…
Constructive Conflict and Confrontation
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…
Leadership Behaviour Feedback
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…
Employee Engagement 2025
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…
The People Energy in Performance
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Leadership – The Influential Leader
At the heart of a high-functioning integrated team in a performance driven culture, is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, ‘influential leader’ behaviour skills. Every team member…
What Worked Then, Won’t Work Now!
The prevalence of knowledge workers and the knowledge workforce is actually just three decades old, and we all know change is mostly slow and painful. But the truth of the…