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The Intrinsic Nature of Leadership

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There are basically four fundamental aspects of behaviour style: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). With a fundamental understanding of these four aspects of behaviour patterns and how they affect connection,…

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What’s Your Leadership Style

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There are essentially four behaviour preferences or styles: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). Having awareness of your dominant behaviour pattern or style as well as others’ behaviour styles is essential…

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A Leaders Playbook

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Throughout the college football season, we can glean many valuable leadership behaviour lessons that are so applicable to the work we do at The Frisina Group and The Center for Influential Leadership. Thinking of behaviour and its critical link to…

Tagged with: Achievement, analysis, behaviour, brain, emotional energy, focus, interpersonal relationships, leadership, lower brain fear, performance, Performance management, positive presence, stress, success, team
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Emotional Awareness – A Must for Organizational Wellness

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Leaders without emotional awareness, do not relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact…

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Leading Change Through Chaos

Posted on October 22, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

It is inevitable actually, that you will at some point in your career find yourself faced with the necessity to make a change that you don’t agree with, for whatever the reason. … and the reasons are unlimited. One reason…

Tagged with: attitude, change, change-resistance, chaos, complex, disruptive, emotional energy, front lines, mindset, organizational systems, positive presence, public service, relationships, resilience, Resistance, stress, stress response, wellness
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Can You Embrace Change?

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Let’s face it, if we are not changing, chances are we’re not alive. Resistance to change is normal and natural. You see, the minute your brain realizes you are moving out of your ‘comfort zone’…it automatically sets off the famous…

The Performance Gap

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Performance is the product of what we are capable of doing (technical skill) multiplied by what we are willing to do (motivation). In health care delivery, as in other high-risk industries, a gap between these two elements of performance can…

Tagged with: accountable, behaviours, brain function, challenges, change, consequences, emotional energy, Emotions, Improvement, initiative, leadership, management, mindset, motivation, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, processes, productivity, quality, relationships, satisfaction, stress, team, technical skill, thinking, understand, wellness
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Emotional Connection – The Three Points of Contact

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: attitudes, behaviour, collaborative, culture, doubt, emotional awareness, emotional connection, emotional dimension, emotional energy, fear, leader influence, mindset, negative emotions, performance-based, positive emotions, positive presence
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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Look Like?

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Part of our understanding about stress and managing our response to it, is being aware of and using the strengths of our individual behaviour patterns. We all know that change and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven…

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Leading Under Stress – The Choice Is Yours

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

There is no doubt that stress impacts your thinking and decision making, and it impacts how you choose to react in any given situation. As a leader, stress will impact everyone in your workplace that experiences you in a negative…

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