Changing behaviour is a challenge, even when not doing so means lost business, bankruptcy, the demise of a company, or harming other people. By the same token, changing a workplace culture that is dysfunctional or toxic will only occur by…
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Change Behaviour for Culture Change
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Leader Connection Builds Culture
Just as technology has increased the borders of our markets, it has also increased competition for the best and brightest employees. Employees today seek to work for a company and leaders with whom they feel proud to be associated and…
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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 a function of both technical skill and behaviour capacity. Furthermore,…
Tagged with: behaviour, Brain neurological energy, change, collaboration, complexity, culture, leaders, performance, positive presence, stress, thought habits
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Employee Needs – Why Should I Care?
Many organizations are at a loss when it comes to building culture. CEOs are quick to put their top leaders into a room for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, and expect a culture change. As an…
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The Seven Employee Needs – What’s Missing?
Many leaders are unaware of the needs and concerns of their workforce. Unmet needs produce strong negative feelings and resentment. These employees become complainers, cynics, and faultfinders. They resist change, and they disengage from the culture and all initiatives. They…
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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 for changing behaviour following the training. Limited participation signals a…
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The Professionally Artful Apology
At the heart of sustaining highly effective relationships is the skill of expressing a professionally artful apology. There are various excuses people give for refusing to apologize for inappropriate, disrespectful, rude, and a host of other more toxic behaviours. Whatever…
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The Five Basic Leader Behaviour Skills
At the heart of organizational performance and a performance driven culture is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, individual leader behaviour skills. To help you reframe and refocus your thinking on behaviour competency to drive performance, consider…
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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 is an influential leader regardless of rank or title. What’s…
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Oh, That Bad Behaviour!
Far too many people are unaware of how they are perceived by family, friends, and professional colleagues. We all know, and it is easy for us to recognize, other people with bad habits, and disturbing, and disruptive behaviours. The harder…
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