In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. Middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of authority providing neither effective leadership nor effective management. The issue is not change resistance.…
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Be the Leader People Want to Follow
Tagged with: active listening, change, collaboration, communication, connection, followership, goals, leadership, management, objectives, performance, positive emotional connection, productivity, purpose, team
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Build Your Best Workplace Now
How often do we ask ourselves, “How do I create the best possible workplace where people wake up in the middle of the night disappointed it is not time to go to work yet?”… Now that you have finished laughing…
Tagged with: attitudes, awareness, change, coachable, collaboration, conflict, culture, dysfunction, dysfunctional employees, energy, engagement, frustration, intangibles, leader behaviour, motivation, performance, positive attitude, purpose, self-management, stress, success, tangibles, teachable, toxic behaviour, workplace environment
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Trust and Collaboration
No other aspect of effective leadership is more apparent than the loss of trust through bad behaviour. Building and sustaining trust is critical to accomplishing tasks, achieving goals and creating a performance driven culture. This is true for any enterprise,…
Tagged with: Achievement, behaviour, collaboration, collaborative, commitment, credibility, Influential leaders, interpersonal, leadership, operational, passion, peak performance, performance capacity, performance driven culture, Trust
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The Role of the Leader in Promoting Accountability
In creating an organization that is built for all outcomes, accountability is a visible practice. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s purpose, mission, vision, values, and how they fit into this…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, change, collaboration, employee engagement, fear, leaders, mission, negative energy, performance, positive emotional human energy, positive presence, responsibilities, success, team, transparency, Upper Brain, values, vision
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The Intrinsic Nature of Leadership
There are four fundamental aspects of behaviour patterns: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). With a fundamental understanding of the four aspects of behaviour patterns and how they affect connection, collaboration,…
Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour strengths, change, Character, collaboration, commitment, competence, connection, emotional capacity, engagement, leadership, positive presence
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Domains of Leadership Strength
John Maynard Keyes wrote, “The hardest thing is not to get people to accept new ideas; it is to get them to forget the old ones.” Change, increased complexity, and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven world.…
Tagged with: behaviour patterns, behaviour strengths, chaos, collaboration, complexity, connection, leadership, neuroscientists, peak performance, performance, positive presence, relationships, thinking pattern
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Leadership Interactions Are Positive or Negative
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 actually is…
Tagged with: accountability, brain cells, collaboration, collaborative, compassion, Hope, neurochemical performance cocktail, positive emotional connection, positive presence, principle of connection, professional behaviour, relationships, responsible behaviour, safety, self-awareness, Trust
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A Culture Built For Performance
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…
People Are the Heart of Performance
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…
Taking Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation
The presence of highly developed positive neuronal connections among leaders and team members does not mean the absence of conflict and confrontation. On the contrary, a culture that embraces collaboration and connection welcomes constructive conflict and confrontation. The operative word…
Tagged with: accountability, Authenticity, collaboration, connection, constructive conflict, Constructive confrontation, positive presence, relationships, Trust
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