No workplace is without a ’Negative Nellie’. You all either work with, or have worked with, that guy (or girl) that’s always complaining or trying to sabotage a good days work – or just plain toxic both in speech and/or…
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Why Workplace Behaviour Is a Big Deal
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Positive Presence – A Necessary Skill for Today’s Workforce
Positive Presence is your natural ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset within yourself through conscious thought processes. Your skill level for Positive Presence depends on many, many things, but mostly, it is developed through your…
Tagged with: brain research, brain-power, energized mindset, energy, leaders, negative energy, neuroscience, positive, positive presence, self-awareness
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The Neuroscience / Thought Link
Epigenetics is the study of how the brain responds to physical stimuli of electromagnetic and chemical flow in the brain. This process triggers groups of genes to act in a positive or negative direction based on your emotional and/or physical…
Tagged with: behavior, brain, Emotional, energized mindset, epigenetics, mental resilience, neuroscience, performance excellence, physical, positive presence, productivity, thinking, thoughts
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The Neuroscience Revolution
In December of 2018 my good friend and mentor, Dr. Michael Frisina, was published in the International Journal of Academic Medicine | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September-December 2018. http://www.journalonweb.com/ijam As the Canadian Representative and Coach Certified of The…
Tagged with: behavior, health, neuroscience, performance, positive behaviors, positive presence, productive behaviors, relationships, thinking patterns
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What’s Your Leadership Style
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
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.…
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Say No to the Status Quo
Influential leaders almost always are highly dissatisfied with ‘status quo’. They are unwilling to allow preventable pain and suffering to continue needlessly. They are unwilling to waste precious resources and to settle for second-rate productivity and financial performance. Volition enables…
Tagged with: behaviours, beliefs, benefits, change, clinical psychology, feelings, Influential leaders, intangible, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, tangible, thinking, thought model, urgency imperative, volition
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Making the People Connection
The greatest of all leaders understand that methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People do. Therefore, it is people not processes, with whom organizational leaders must form a long-lasting, positive, emotional connection. This connection is actually…
Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, brain, collaboration, emotional connection, engage, habits, needs, neurochemical performance, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, self-awareness, success, Trust
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4 Steps to Organizational Performance
The corporate world is full of courses, seminars and workshops purporting to improve employee skills, increase productivity, boost morale, and enhance employee retention, and ultimately to increase organizational performance. It is the hope that the investment of time and money…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, change, coaching, Confirmation bias, connections, leader, mental model, neuronal pathways, neuroscience, performance, productivity, thought habits
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Why Leaders Fail to Get Results
A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The…
Tagged with: accountability, assumptions, behaviour, brain, connections, habits, leaders, mindset, neuroscience, organizational objectives, performance, positive presence, results, self-aware, self-management, team
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