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A Culture Built For Performance

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers, and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional connection with your people you send a clear message that…

Tagged with: behaviour, connection, culture, human energy, Knowledge, leader, mediocrity, motivation, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, purpose, scarcity, team, thought model
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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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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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How Strong is your Leadership Foundation?

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Following are three foundational skills sets that need to be strongly embedded in every leader in order to achieve performance excellence: 1.Develop a Learner’s Attitude Success in every dimension of life is related to your ability to connect with others.…

Tagged with: adapt, care, change, connection, connections, grow, humility, Learner’s Attitude, performance, positive, positive presence, quality, Selflessness, skills, success, supportive, unproductive
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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 Behaviour/Performance Connection

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There is a knowledge gap among leaders who lack a deep understanding of the critical role they play between themselves and the behaviour strengths of their employees. People connect and engage with their leader before they connect and engage with…

Tagged with: behaviour strengths, Challenge, connection, engaged, Excellence, influential leader, leader behaviour, leader image, leaders, leadership, mental image, performance, performance change, positive, positive presence, relationship
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The Performance Power of Your Presence

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Never doubt the impact on performance marked by your presence as a leader. You are, without a doubt, ridiculously in charge of the production and wellbeing of every person you lead, and ultimately, the destiny of your organization. And, without…

Tagged with: ambiguous, behaviours, brain, complex, connection, emotionally intelligent, energy, fast-changing, feelings, focus, frustration, leader, overwhelm, positive presence, thoughts, wellbeing
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The Value of Behaviour Style aka Social/Communication Style

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

As a human you are a complex manufacturing plant for electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy. Positive emotions exist in positive energy. Your energy is basically your thoughts and feelings which manifest into the physical world as behaviour. Learning and developing your skill…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour style, connection, Emotions, energy, feeling, mental patterns, performance, positive energy, positive presence, subconscious, thinking
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