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What Culture Says About You as a Leader

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Gone are the days when a paycheck, the employee of the month award, and the gold watch at retirement were sufficient motivators for people to perform at their best or to remain loyal and dedicated to the organization. Just as…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, contributors, culture, Emotional, engagement, leader, leadership, mindset, motivators, perform, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, satisfaction, team
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Performance Requires Behaviour Skill

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

It is worth noting that leadership failure typically is not the result of the absence of technical skill, but in fact, incompetence in behavioural skill. You will likely gain higher levels of management responsibility based on your technical skill performance,…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, consistent, employees, engagement, feedback, followers, influence, leadership, organizational, performance, positive behaviour, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness, self-evaluation, soft skills, success
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A People Culture is the Heart of Performance

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

A number of thoughtful people have said many times, in a variety of ways, and it deserves repeating here: “People never connect and commit to an organization’s mission and vision until they first connect and commit to its leaders. Influential…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, commitment, connection, culture, Emotions, engagement, heart, leaders, mission, neuro-chemical, performance, responsibility, strengths, succeed, success, team, vision
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Is Technical Competence Enough?

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

“Is it not enough that I am good at my job?” The simple and short answer to this question is, “no!” In 1627, English poet, John Donne, wrote that “no man is an island unto himself.” No matter where we…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, competence, connection, cooperate, development, dysfunctional, engagement, goals, Growth, harmony, influence, leadership, performance, positive, positive presence, productive, team, Technical
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Adaptability – Resiliency to Respond to Changing Events

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Developing a strategy for ‘Connection’ can have enormous influence on the way your people think and connect and plays an important role in fundamental transformation of any businesses culture and work environment. There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be…

Tagged with: Adaptability, alertness, Attentiveness, behaviour, change, communication, compassion, connection, culture, emotional connections, engagement, flexible, influence, leader, miscommunications, performance, Positive experiences, proactive, productivity, resiliency, self-awareness, self-examination, sensitivity, success, transformation, Trust, versatile
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People First – The Strategy

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

You may be familiar with what is referred to as ‘Lean philosophy’. The lean philosophy seeks to eliminate wasteful practices and increase value-producing practices and, began in the manufacturing industry. It was Toyota that really took the philosophy to heart…

Tagged with: culture, emotional connections, engagement, expectations, influence, leadership, lean, mind set, needs, people first, performance, Strategy, success, wants
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Transforming Connection – People First

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Connection is a powerful strategy used by enlightened leaders to transform their workplaces and create dynamic and powerful teams. These teams are not only capable of weathering adversity but achieving high levels of performance excellence. Creating and sustaining positive and…

Tagged with: adversity, conflict, connection, dynamic, engagement, Excellence, leaders, measurable, methodology, mindsets, miscommunications, people first, performance, productivity, self-awareness, teams
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Lasting Organizational Change

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

When done right, employee attitude, satisfaction and/or engagement surveys provide valuable information to the organization. Too often however, leaders do not take seriously the workplace barriers and emotional barriers identified by their employees. Corporate survey efforts become a way to…

Tagged with: attitude, barriers, behaviour, care, change, disruptive, emotional barriers, energy, engagement, performance, positive behaviours, positive presence, quality, satisfaction, strength-building, wellbeing, workplace
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Deep Emotional Connection – Is It Needed?

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

“If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” –Gilbert Amelio, former CEO of Apple. Methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People…

Tagged with: accountability, change, collaboration, connection, emotional connection, energy, engagement, leader, motivation, performance, Positive Connection, positive presence, self-awareness, success, Trust
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Social Relationships Matter

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

There is lots of researcher indicating that social cohesion (the result of highly effective relationships) accounts for roughly one quarter of a team’s performance. Think about this in terms of productivity. Consider a department with target revenue of $100 million…

Tagged with: behaviour, cohesion, effective, emotion, engagement, fulfillment, leadership, mission, performance, productivity, relationships, social, vision
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