We have all been taught that the key to communication is listening. This is true, but you first must care before you can listen to understand effectively. Effective communication, as a highly influential trust behaviour, requires caring first, and seeking…
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Communication is NOT Overrated
Technology mogul Elon Musk once tweeted out that “people are overrated.” While he would later explain that he was referring to the power of robotics and the emerging technology in both robotics and artificial intelligence, one wonders how destructive that…
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The System Components of Leadership
Leadership effectiveness has three key components – not competencies – but system components – the necessary and sufficient conditions to produce results sustainable over time at a very high level. The three core components of leadership are: a. Character –…
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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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A Leaders Playbook
Throughout the college football season, we can glean many valuable leadership behaviour lessons that are so applicable to the work we do at The Frisina Group and The Center for Influential Leadership. Thinking of behaviour and its critical link to…
Tagged with: Achievement, analysis, behaviour, brain, emotional energy, focus, interpersonal relationships, leadership, lower brain fear, performance, Performance management, positive presence, stress, success, team
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The Secret to Leadership Development
If you are a senior leader, you have to ask yourself, how committed am I to real change in my organization and what am I doing to create that change? Senior leaders create strategic vision and objectives for the organization.…
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The Three Reasons Leadership Development Fails
Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms, business, sports, and tax-exempt organizations. People are captivated and confused…
Tagged with: accountability, commitment, culture, development, human, Improvement, leader, leadership, objectives, outcome, participation, performance, positive presence, purpose, strategic
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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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The Biology of Change
What makes people, who possess knowledge about what they need to do to actually improve their performance, alter and change their behaviour? The answer is volition- a purposeful, intentional choice. People choose to change their behaviour when they have a…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, circumstances, Desirability, dissatisfaction, emotional acceptance, Experience, feelings, motivation, neurotransmitters, outcomes, performance, positive presence, Practicality, satisfaction, thoughts
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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…
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