The truth is that the so-called soft skills of behaviour are really the hard skills that create the measure of influence for performance success. Time and again the fundamental problems related to the lack of engagement and work performance enhancement…
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance
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What Culture Says About You as a Leader
Gone are the days when a paycheck, the employee of the month award, and the gold watch at retirement were sufficient motivators for people to perform at their best or to remain loyal and dedicated to the organization. Just as…
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The Skill of Positive Presence
Leaders that have high-level skills in Positive Presence™ and the Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies of Influential Leadership, are very aware when there is a lack of accountability and therefore behave and urge others to behave, in a manner that promotes…
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Performance Requires Behaviour Skill
It is worth noting that leadership failure typically is not the result of the absence of technical skill, but in fact, incompetence in behavioural skill. You will likely gain higher levels of management responsibility based on your technical skill performance,…
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How Accurate is Your Shot?
Periodically, when serving in titled positions of leadership, it is imperative to self-evaluate your behaviour performance as a means of staying focused and on target to getting the right things done well. Many times we can best accomplish this self-assessment…
Tagged with: behaviour, Behaviour Competencies, development, feedback, focus, leadership, mindset, performance, positive presence, self-motivation, stress, wellbeing
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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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Is Technical Competence Enough?
“Is it not enough that I am good at my job?” The simple and short answer to this question is, “no!” In 1627, English poet, John Donne, wrote that “no man is an island unto himself.” No matter where we…
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What is Meaningful Connection?
Connection increases a leader’s influence among followers, and this influence in turn spurs followers to do more: improve their behaviour, develop their skills and talents, work better and harder, seek and participate in collaborations or teams, and achieve greater results.…
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People First – The Strategy
You may be familiar with what is referred to as ‘Lean philosophy’. The lean philosophy seeks to eliminate wasteful practices and increase value-producing practices and, began in the manufacturing industry. It was Toyota that really took the philosophy to heart…
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Emotional Awareness – Are You?
Twenty years ago, the idea of emotions having an impact on personal and professional success, productivity and performance was given a new name: emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI), first defined in an article by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer,…