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The System Components of Leadership

Posted on December 9, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Leadership effectiveness has three key components – not competencies – but system components – the necessary and sufficient conditions to produce results sustainable over time at a very high level. The three core components of leadership are: a. Character –…

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The Intrinsic Nature of Leadership

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There are basically four fundamental aspects of behaviour style: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). With a fundamental understanding of these four aspects of behaviour patterns and how they affect connection,…

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What’s Your Leadership Style

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There are essentially four behaviour preferences or styles: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). Having awareness of your dominant behaviour pattern or style as well as others’ behaviour styles is essential…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour preferences, collaboration, connection, emotional energy, leadership, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, workplace behaviour
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Domains of Leadership Strength

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

John Maynard Keyes wrote, “The hardest thing is not to get people to accept new ideas; it is to get them to forget the old ones.” Change, increased complexity, and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven world.…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour domains, behaviour preferences, behaviour strengths, chaos, complexity, leadership, neuroscience, neuroscientists, peak performance, positive presence, thinking pattern
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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…

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