No workplace is without a ’Negative Nellie’. You all either work with, or have worked with, that guy (or girl) that’s always complaining or trying to sabotage a good days work – or just plain toxic both in speech and/or…
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Why Workplace Behaviour Is a Big Deal
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Are Your Connections Positive or Negative?
Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of care you put into these relationships translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your interpersonal exchanges and…
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Are you a Positive Professional Role Model?
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…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, change, collaboration, collaborative, continuous improvement, culture, Emotional, Emotions, energy, influence, leadership, Negative, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, quality, relationships, self-aware, toxic, wellness, work environment
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Focus on Behaviour, Not Technical Skill
When you think about leadership attributes, is your list heavy on technical elements but light on behaviour and relationship skills.? It is a fact, that behaviour and relationship skills bring out the technical competencies and enable the job to be…
Tagged with: behaviour, collaborative, connective, feedback, focus, leadership, mediocrity, motivation, performance, relationship, self-aware, self-worth, Skill, soft skills, strategic, value
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The 4 Essential Leadership Skills for Followership
“To lead them you have to be with them.” In his award-winning best seller, We Were Soldiers Once and Young, Lt. General Hal Moore spoke this basic leadership lesson to his junior officers. While operating rooms, shop floors, assembly lines,…
Tagged with: alertness, Appreciation, attention, Attentiveness, attitude, collaborative, communication, connection, emotional state, empathic, feedback, followership, inclusive, leadership, performance, positive, praise, relationships, sincere, Thoughtfulness, Trust, work ethic
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Accountability as a Visible Practice
In a collaborative culture with an influential leader that is skilled in Positive Presence™, accountability is a visible practice. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s mission, vision, values, and how they…
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The Value of a Cooperative Attitude
A cooperative attitude inhibits destructive competition. Cooperation, on the other hand, is the ‘new’ constructive competition. While competition among teams can be healthy in that it brings out personal bests and team bests, it can quickly lead to negative or…
Tagged with: attitude, behaviour, collaborative, communication, Competition, consequences, cooperation, dysfunctional behaviour, functional team, leader, morale, motivation, Negative, performance, positive presence, team
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How Positive (Or Not) Are You?
Over time, negative experiences erode the leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective relations but whose behaviour does very little to advance that cause. These leaders ignore or do not…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, collaborative, connections, culture, emotional connections, leaders, morale, Negative, performance, positive, productivity, relations, Trust, turnovers
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Emotional Connection – The Three Points of Contact
A leader’s emotional awareness is important because employees relate to their leaders on an emotional level in several ways: First, how employees feel (e.g., awed, intimidated, indifferent, impressed) about their leader influences the way they do their job and the…
The Human Factor
Improving the performance of an organization requires improving the behavioural performance of all of its people at a cultural level. An organization cannot become what its people are not. Simply stated, conforming behaviours within a collaborative culture really matter. It…
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