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Are Your Connections Positive or Negative?

Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of care you put into these relationships translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your interpersonal exchanges and

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The Human Factors of Ineffective Communication

Communication starts and stops all effective collaborations. Some of the causes of ineffective communication are a mixture of both organizational and human factors. The human factors are mental, behavioural and emotional, such as the following: 1. Poor listening skills 2.

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What is a Collaborative Team?

As leaders, we need to focus on forming teams that can perform amid the complexity and chaos of today’s work environment –a team whose members have behavioural competencies, including interpersonal skills that enhance each other’s’ performance. It has been proven

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The Bottom Line of Influence

Your ability to influence as a leader is directly proportional to how you choose to lead yourself and manage the impact of your behaviour on others. A few bad habits can nullify your influence on the people who desire for

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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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Trust or Collaboration?

The fundamental purpose of building and sustaining trust is to accomplish tasks and achieve goals. This is true for any enterprise, whether for-profit or not-for-profit. In this way, trust is an operational and a collaborative imperative. In health care organizations,

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The Trust Quotient

The word trust is derived for the German word trost, meaning comfort. This is an appropriate association because when you trust someone, you are comforted by the belief that this person has your best interest at heart and thus will

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Trust and Collaboration

No other aspect of effective leadership is more apparent than the loss of trust through bad behaviour. Building and sustaining trust is critical to accomplishing tasks, achieving goals and creating a performance driven culture. This is true for any enterprise,

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