How often do we ask ourselves, “How do I create the best possible workplace where people wake up in the middle of the night disappointed it is not time to go to work yet?”… Now that you have finished laughing…
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Leading in the Best Workplace
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Are You Unforgettable?
You have probably heard the saying, “A truly great leader is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.” The same adage holds for bad leaders too, at least the “impossible to forget” part — this also…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, employee engagement, hippocampus, leader, memories, neuroscience, pattern recognition system, performance, positive presence, recall, team
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Why Workplace Behaviour Is a Big Deal
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…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, cognitive functioning, collaborative, negativity, negativity bias, neuro-imaging technology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, positive presence, positive thought habits, toxic
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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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