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.…
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Employee Engagement 2025
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
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 Behaviour/Performance Connection
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?
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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Employee Needs – Why Should I Care?
Many organizations are at a loss when it comes to building culture. CEOs are quick to put their top leaders into a room for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, and expect a culture change. As an…
Tagged with: accountability, Appreciation, behaviour, belonging, Challenge, change, Control, culture, Growth, inclusion, leadership, Learning, Meaning, positive presence, Power, purpose, Recognition, Trust, vision
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The New Leadership Paradigm
The understanding that a leader’s behaviour is the key predictor to organizational performance is a radical shift in leadership thinking. To develop a performance driven culture a key element must be to begin to focus not on the technical elements…
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Leadership Development in Today’s World
A number of factors contribute to the failure of leadership development programs today. Among these is the limited participation by senior leadership in the training and in holding people accountable for changing behaviour following the training. Limited participation signals a…
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Performance Excellence – Continuous Improvement
When behaviour is identified as a critical piece of the performance equation – and studies of corporate success stories have proven its relevance time and time again – it means that behaviour skills must become part of the organizational total…
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Performance Excellence – The Skill of Positive Presence
Unfortunately, it is not unusual to see people in management positions that are clueless about how to deal with the dysfunctional situations and behaviours — the “people issues,” that occur daily and could consume upwards of 80 percent of a…
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Performance Excellence – The Influential Leader
Behind every high-performing organization is an influential leader who is keenly aware of how thought habits drive individual behaviour, and how behaviour habits affect those with whom you work. And, whether formally trained or not, this influential leader knows the…
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