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 Your Connections Positive or Negative?
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, collaborative, compassion, connections, Emotional, habits, Hope, interactions, interpersonal, positive, positive presence, professional, relationships, responsible, safety, Trust
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We Get What We Create
Sigmund Freud, so the story goes, went to his grave perplexed by the question “What do women want?” I wonder if it ever occurred to Freud to simply ask a woman. In business, puzzled leaders do ask their employees what…
Tagged with: attitude, connections, culture, Emotional, engagement, leaders, performance, positive, positive presence, purpose, relationship, supportive, team, workplace
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Not Making the Choice to Change
Change – whether personal or organizational – is not easy. It is a journey that takes many years and involves many people, but as the Chinese proverb states, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Despite…
Tagged with: behaviour, change, commitment, connections, engagement, human energy, leaders, performance excellence, positive presence, self-examination, workplace behaviour
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4 Steps to Organizational Performance
The corporate world is full of courses, seminars and workshops purporting to improve employee skills, increase productivity, boost morale, and enhance employee retention, and ultimately to increase organizational performance. It is the hope that the investment of time and money…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, change, coaching, Confirmation bias, connections, leader, mental model, neuronal pathways, neuroscience, performance, productivity, thought habits
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Why Leaders Fail to Get Results
A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The…
Tagged with: accountability, assumptions, behaviour, brain, connections, habits, leaders, mindset, neuroscience, organizational objectives, performance, positive presence, results, self-aware, self-management, team
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How Strong is your Leadership Foundation?
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.…
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The Social Skills of Leadership
To be human means you need relationships which in turn necessitate social ability. Winning social behaviours are well documented, and according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, social competencies can be learned and developed with practice, the same way a 20…
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Three Truths About Leadership-Follower Relations
Jason is the CEO of a large, independent service-providing organization. Highly educated, he is very talented in the business sciences and executes on those skills with flawless precision. As Jason progressed through the company, his hyper competitiveness and ambition exposed…
Tagged with: behaviour, competitiveness, connections, leader-follower relations, performance, prejudices, relationships
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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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Are You Aware Enough to Connect?
Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into relationships with your colleagues translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your…
Tagged with: behaviour, care, connections, emotional awareness, high-performance, leader behaviour, Negative, neurosciences, positive, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness
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