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A Leaders Playbook

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Throughout the college football season, we can glean many valuable leadership behaviour lessons that are so applicable to the work we do at The Frisina Group and The Center for Influential Leadership. Thinking of behaviour and its critical link to…

Tagged with: Achievement, analysis, behaviour, brain, emotional energy, focus, interpersonal relationships, leadership, lower brain fear, performance, Performance management, positive presence, stress, success, team
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The Secret to Leadership Development

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

If you are a senior leader, you have to ask yourself, how committed am I to real change in my organization and what am I doing to create that change? Senior leaders create strategic vision and objectives for the organization.…

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The Three Reasons Leadership Development Fails

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms, business, sports, and tax-exempt organizations. People are captivated and confused…

Tagged with: accountability, commitment, culture, development, human, Improvement, leader, leadership, objectives, outcome, participation, performance, positive presence, purpose, strategic
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The Principle of Followership

Posted on August 12, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. What maybe misattributed as generational gaps is that everywhere, middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership…

Tagged with: awareness, change, collaboration, communication, compassionate, connection, Emotions, empathic, focus, followership, goals, leader, leadership, listening, management, objectives, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-talk, team
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Crossing the Age-Gap

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

An analysis of 20 studies with nearly 20,000 people revealed slight and inconsistent differences in job attitudes when comparing generational groups. While many love to point out that younger and older people are more different than alike, research refutes this…

Tagged with: attitudes, brand image, collaboration, culture, engagement, Flexibility, generational gap, internal dynamic, leadership, needs, positive presence, Respect, Strategy, wellbeing
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Are You In Touch as a Leader?

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There is nothing more destructive to an organization than a leader who is out of touch. You have to remain relevant. There is no doubt our world has changed; a lot of it for the better. Our workforces have also…

Tagged with: adapt, behaviour, leader, leadership, norms, organization, performance, positive change, positive presence, relationships, team
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Employee Engagement 2025

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Leadership failure rarely is the result of the absence of technical skill and intellect, but incompetence in behavioural skill. You only need to look at the headlines of the most recent business publication to substantiate the credibility of this statement.…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, engagement, influence, leadership, management, organizational performance, performance, positive presence, self-awareness
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Change Behaviour for Culture Change

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, commitment, culture, employee engagement, focus, human energy, leaders, leadership, positive presence
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The Behaviour/Performance Connection

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There is a knowledge gap among leaders who lack a deep understanding of the critical role they play between themselves and the behaviour strengths of their employees. People connect and engage with their leader before they connect and engage with…

Tagged with: behaviour strengths, Challenge, connection, engaged, Excellence, influential leader, leader behaviour, leader image, leaders, leadership, mental image, performance, performance change, positive, positive presence, relationship
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How Do You Influence Others?

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Sometimes you cannot articulate why you like or dislike someone’s behaviour, because often your internal preferences are unconscious. Behaviour preference or style, aka social/communication style, has been around for decades. Basically, everyone falls into one of four styles, frequently set…

Tagged with: agile, behaviour, communication, energized emotions, flexible, habits, influence, Influential leaders, inspire, leadership, motivate, performance, positive, positive connections, positive presence, unconscious
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