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…
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Emotional Awareness – Where Are You?
Authenticity, humility, honesty, and courage are hallmark leadership traits that research has attributed to a leader’s emotional awareness. In today’s knowledge economy in which the majority of your workforce is made up of knowledge workers – those people whose jobs…
Tagged with: Authenticity, behaviour, brain, courage, crisis, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, engagement, honesty, humility, knowledge economy, knowledge workers, negative emotions, performance, positive presence, relationships
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The Eight Behaviours of Trust
Trust is a complex and far-reaching concept that pervades our personal and professional pursuits. We cannot bottle trust and sell it. Trust is based on an individual’s mental model that people are generally honorable. Social and ethical theorist Russell Hardin…
Tagged with: attitude, collaboration, communication, cooperativeness, culture, engagement, helpfulness, leadership, mental model, positive presence, responsibility, Trust, trustworthiness
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Are You Leading in the Dark? Three Lights of Accountability
In a collaborative culture accountability is a visible practice and framework. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s mission, vision, values, and how they personally fit into the framework. They are given…
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How Behaviour drives Employee Engagement
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. A culture of engagement is nothing more than the total sum of each…
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The Employee Engagement Roller Coaster
The climate that we work in today is getting increasingly more competitive and our organizations are more complex and ambiguous than ever before in history. Each day the markets in which we compete grow and change. In this increasingly competitive…
Tagged with: behaviour skill, cognitive behaviour, employee engagement, engagement
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An Energized Workplace: The 4 Steps Recapped
As we recap the 4 Step Process for an energized workforce outlined in my previous posts it becomes clear that leaders of the future will have to do far more ‘inside’ work than was required of their predecessors. Step 1…
Tagged with: accountability, awareness, behaviour, behaviour skill, collaboration, energized, energized workforce, energized workplace, energy, engagement, human energy, mindset, motivation, performance, positive, positive behaviour, positive energy, positive mind, positive mindset, positive presence, quality, well-being, wellbeing
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An Energized Workplace: Step 2
In the 2012 Global Workforce Study by Towers Watson it was revealed that “engagement, as traditionally defined, is not sufficient to give employers the sustained performance lift they need – or keep employees doing their work effectively in today’s pressured…
Tagged with: behavior, behaviour, brain science, energized mindset, energized workforce, engagement, human energy, mind set, mindfuness, mindset, neuroscience, organizational success, performance, positive attitude, positive behaviour, positive emotion, positive mindset, positive presence, positive thinking, sustainable engagement, sustained performance, well-being, wellbeing
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The Road to an Energized Workforce
The greatest single threat to the future of organizations as we know them today is the inability of leadership to energize its workforce for sustainable satisfaction and engagement. According to The Conference Board of Canada employee engagement scores have remained…
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