People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers, and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional connection with your people you send a clear message that…
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A Culture Built For Performance
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Not Making the Choice to Change
Change – whether personal or organizational – is not easy. It is a journey that takes many years and involves many people, but as the Chinese proverb states, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Despite…
Tagged with: behaviour, change, commitment, connections, engagement, human energy, leaders, performance excellence, positive presence, self-examination, workplace behaviour
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Leadership Behaviour Feedback
Albert Einstein wrote, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” I would like to expand his words to also read that these significant problems cannot be…
Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, feedback, human energy, leaders, meaningful relationships, performance, positive presence, purposeful self-evaluation, self-awareness
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Change Behaviour for Culture Change
Changing behaviour is a challenge, even when not doing so means lost business, bankruptcy, the demise of a company, or harming other people. By the same token, changing a workplace culture that is dysfunctional or toxic will only occur by…
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The Emotional Dimension of Performance
Human emotions are as complex as they are varied. In a span of one day, we all experience a significant number of emotional highs and lows. An average person in a high-stress environment may experience even more. Emotions do not…
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The Five Basic Leader Behaviour Skills
At the heart of organizational performance and a performance driven culture is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, individual leader behaviour skills. To help you reframe and refocus your thinking on behaviour competency to drive performance, consider…
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New Leadership – The Influential Leader
At the heart of a high-functioning integrated team in a performance driven culture, is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, ‘influential leader’ behaviour skills. Every team member is an influential leader regardless of rank or title. What’s…
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A Strategic Approach To Quality Cognitive Behaviour Development
Enlightened leaders recognize the importance of self-awareness and effective collaborative relationships and they focus their efforts on building connections with the people they lead. The six behavioural attitudes of their strategic approach to quality Cognitive Behaviour Development deserve a closer…
Six Behavioural Attitudes of Enlightened Leadership
It is a known fact that when people are engaged positively with their leader they are more likely to be engaged in their work. Enlightened leaders succeed where other leaders fail because they perform at a higher level, are more…
The Feedback Loop of Change
When we understand that cognitive dissonance (the uncomfortable feelings that accompany the perception of contradictory information, and the mental toll of it) is in essence a biological reaction to the way feedback is delivered to us, then we are in…
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