Understanding your behaviour style and the behaviour styles of your team is invaluable today in creating high performance in your organization. Today five generations of people make up the current workforce in Canada – silent or traditional (born before 1946),…
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Strategic Atrophy
I was recently reading about how some leaders are not properly addressing today’s environmental and strategic threats because they continue to use outdated and antiquated models of assessing what is actually a threat and what is the best course of…
Tagged with: challenges, continuous performance improvement, culture, disruption, environmental, improve, innovation, invent, Necessity, outdated premise, positive presence, status quo, strategic atrophy, strategic threats
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Making the Connection
Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into these relationships translates into either a negative or positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your interactions as good…
Tagged with: accountability, collaborative, connection, connectivity, culture, ineffective leadership, meaningful, morale, Negative, negative behaviour, performance, positive experience, positive presence, productivity, professional, relationships, responsible, strengthen, Trust
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You Cannot Lead Them If You Don’t Love Them
All new leaders must realize that for people to truly follow your lead, they first must believe that you, as their leader have their very best interests at heart. This belief is grounded in a positive emotional connection between the…
Tagged with: behaviour, care, communities, compassion, culture, entrepreneurs, leadership, leader’s words, love, performance, positive emotional connection, Power, productivity, servant-leader
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What Is An Engaged And Committed Workforce?
It is not uncommon in today’s business culture to find organizations where someone is in charge of engagement as though you could assign it or delegate it. You cannot create a culture of engagement through an organizational chart. Where you…
Tagged with: accomplishments, collaborative, culture, engagement, improvements, initiatives, leadership, motivated, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, relationships
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Be Great A Decade At A Time
I recently listened to an author say that if they reflected on their life in the past three decades, and taken into account all the unique changes that occurred in those three separate spans of time, they could not have…
Tagged with: achievable, change, culture, fast-paced, goals, leadership, linear, positive, positive presence, Prioritize, realistic, strength-giving
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Learning from HeartMath
Well over 20 years ago Doc Childre and a group of 30 researchers and entrepreneurs gathered to explore the connection between the metaphorical and physical heart, and in 1991 they formed the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) as a nonprofit research…
Tagged with: anxiety, Autonomic Nervous System, coherence, consciousness, culture, Emotional, feelings, health, HeartMath, mental, performance, positive presence, productivity, stress, success, synergy, thoughts, torus, wellbeing
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Self-Awareness: The Basic Competency
In our ever-increasing competitive business climate, organizations continue to seek any advantage that will give them edge on their competition. Many have found that one solution is to improve their leadership culture. To do that you must begin with self-awareness…
Tagged with: behaviour, beliefs, credibility, culture, Emotions, inspiring traits, leadership, mindset, organizational performance, performance, positive, positive presence, preferences, qualities, success, Trust, values
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DYK (Did You Know?)
Did you know that today’s work environments are a breeding ground for bad stress … the kind of stress that sucks the life out of you; that causes stress-related illnesses like migraines and insomnia; that causes mind-fog and burnout? Scientific…
Tagged with: ambiguity, behaviours, brain, burnout, change, chaos, clear mind, collaboration, communication, complex, culture, emotional wellness, energized, focused mind, illness, innovate, knowledge worker, mental wellness, mind-fog, negativity, neuroplasticity, pandemic, performance, physical wellbeing, positive, positive presence, Power, strengthening, stress, thoughts
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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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