“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius, Joint 16th Emperor of the Roman Empire. In his book, Get Out of Your Own Way: The Five Keys to…
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The Brain/Behaviour Connection
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Transforming Connection – People First
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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In Pursuit of Performance (not Perfection)
“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.” Legendary football coach Vince…
Tagged with: behavior skill, cognitive strength, collaboration, connection, culture, Excellence, goals, leaders, mental, mental toughness, objectives, Perfection, performance, performance excellence, positive presence, purpose, resilience, self-awareness, self-discipline, stress, technical skill, vision
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A New Culture of Accountability
Integrated teams, functioning in a culture of accountability, are the performance driver of choice in today’s high performing organizations. Research has demonstrated the superiority of group decision making over that of even the most single, talented individual. There is one…
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Organizations Do Not Do Things – People Do
TQM, Total Quality Management, is a philosophy first and process improvement second, however most people equate the ‘Deming Cycle’ of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) to process improvement initiatives such as SixSigma and LEAN. Dr. Deming continually emphasized, however, that organizational quality is…
Tagged with: behaviour, change, culture, effectiveness, Excellence, Improvement, leader, management, people, process, purpose, quality, systems, TQM, transformation, understanding
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The Deming Way
December 20, 2021 will mark the twenty-eighth anniversary of the passing of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. As we all know, Dr. Deming is touted as the key innovator in driving top management toward improvements in design, product quality, testing, and…
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The Role Of The Leader In Promoting Accountability
An ‘influential leader’ is a leader with or without rank or position who leads with a positive mindset and is versed in the behaviour competencies of Self-awareness, Collaboration and Connection. In a collaborative culture with an ‘influential leader’, accountability is…
Tagged with: accountability, collaboration, collaborative culture, confusion, connection, distrust, engagement, Excellence, fear, influential leader, measures, objectives, position, positive mindset, positive presence, rank, responsibility, success, underachievement
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Leading from Your Upper Brain™
In December of 2018 my good friend and mentor, Dr. Michael Frisina, was published in the International Journal of Academic Medicine | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September-December 2018. http://www.journalonweb.com/ijam As an licenced affiliate of The Frisina Group’s ‘Center…
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The Hierarchy of Organization Behavioural Needs
In 1943 Abraham Maslow developed what many of us know as “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.” His theory is that human psychology revolves around a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. As you may…
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The Behaviour Element of Performance Excellence
Performance can be illustrated by this simple formula: Performance= technical skill x behavioural skill. In high-risk industries, such as health care delivery, an imbalance between these two elements of performance (technical skill and behavioural skill) can result in poor work…
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