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Creating Real Change

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Think about all the people who have had leadership responsibility and authority over you. Who inspired, believed, and encouraged you? When I reflect on this question, several teachers— from grade school to graduate school—come to mind. These teachers pushed me…

Tagged with: actions, authority, behaviour, beliefs, believe, brain, change, collaborate, connect, credibility, culture, development, Emotions, engagement, inspired, inspiring, leadership, motivation, Negative, neuroscience, outcomes, performance, positive, preferences, productivity, responsibility, teams, thought, Trust, values
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This New Year: Commit to Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

We live in a time of great excitement as we watch the world we grew up in literally changing before your eyes. This is the first time in the history of man that we are able to watch the evolution…

Tagged with: ambiguity, behaviour, compassion, complexity, connectivity, critical-thinking, disruptive, enthusiasm, Excellence, improvements, leadership, mindset, neuroscience, optimism, positive presence, pressure, professionals, stress, tactical capacity, toxic, value
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Collaboration – Culture or Skill?

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Neuroscience has proven that positive emotional energy is necessary for the kind of behaviour that fosters collaboration. That kind of behaviour skill requires not only a huge amount of self-awareness and understanding of one’s personal behaviour preferences and how you…

Tagged with: collaboration, communicate, compassionate, competent, cooperative attitudes, courageous, culture, honest, listening, neuroscience, performance, positive emotional energy, positive presence, reliable, responsibility, self-awareness, Sharing, strength-building behaviours, team, transparency, Trust
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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Feel Like?

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Stress, defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, is “a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life and work; something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety; physical force or pressure.” In today’s business and health care…

Tagged with: anxiety, behaviour, biological response, brain, employee engagement, motivation, neuroscience, passion, performance, positive presence, productivity, stress, stress hormones, tension, workplace, worry
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The Accountability of Change

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

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, change, cognitive, Confirmation bias, expectations, focus frames, mental models, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, self-management, thoughts
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Mindfulness for Stress Release

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

The complexity, ambiguity and relentless pace of today’s pandemic driven world places gigantic demands on business leaders in every industry. Leaders are working incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They are…

Tagged with: ambiguity, change, complexity, Creativity, emotional intelligence, energized, engagement, focus, mental health, mindfulness, neuroscience, positive presence, Stability, strategic-thinking, stress, thoughts
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Neuroscience – Inside Your Mind

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Catherine Osborne

Many of us do not come ‘pre-wired’ for it consistent positive emotional thought and mind-chatter, in fact for most of us, it is a learned skill – the skill that we call “Positive Presence”. Our proficiency for Positive Presence is…

Tagged with: attention, brain, focus, learnable skill, mental processes, mind-chatter, mindsight, neuroscience, positive emotional thought, positive presence, re-wire, self-awareness, thought habits, well-being
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Are Your Values a Positive Force?

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Catherine Osborne

Knowing your values is extremely important to acquiring a resilient and energized mindset. A personal value is an individual’s absolute or relative and ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action. A value system is…

Tagged with: attitudes, behaviour, choices, energized mindset, energy flow, ethical value, feelings, harmony, negative energy, neuroscience, resilient mindset, values
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The Science of Success and the Neuroplasticity of the Brain

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Catherine Osborne

In the last 10 years or so, a new field of neuroscience has mapped the mental zone that can literally change the brain to quiet an overly active stress response system and simultaneously pave the way for higher brain networks…

Tagged with: brain networks, brain speed, emotional intelligence, emotional wellbeing, higher brain, homeostasis, mental zone, mindset, negative emotion, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, physical wellbeing, positive change, prefrontal cortex, relationships, social intelligence, stress hormones, stress management, stress response, success
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Why Great Leaders are Unforgettable – and Bad Leaders Too!

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Catherine Osborne

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. Did you ever…

Tagged with: behaviour, brain, EEM, emotion, employee engagement, experiential emotional memory, hippocampus, leaders, leadership, neurochemical, neuroscience, pattern recognition, performance, positive, positive behaviour, positive presence, relationships, rewire, thinking
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