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Leader Connection Drives Performance

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

As a leader you are responsible for giving your people reasons to follow you. You do this by understanding what they want and need to fulfill their work requirements and contribute to a mutual and beneficial meaningful purpose in their…

Tagged with: attitude, behaviour, behaviour competency, brain, connection, influential leader, leader, leadership, learned helplessness., mediocrity, mindset, need, Negative, neurosciences, performance, positive presence, purpose, relationships, scarcity, team, thought, Trust, want
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Leadership Is All About Followership

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. Middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership nor effective management. The issue is not change resistance.…

Tagged with: change, collaboration, communication, connection, desires, emotional connection, followership, leadership, listen, listening, management, managers, needs, performance, Positive Connection, positive presence, productivity, purpose, Resistance, team, wants
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, change, courage, culture, dysfunctional, engagement, influence, leadership, negative behaviour, performance, positive presence, productivity, relationships, success, toxic, values, willingness
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The Jerk at Work

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

In a moment of self- reflection, ask yourself the following question, “Are my current habits and behaviour getting me to where I want to go?” If the answer is “No” you need to consider making some changes. Far too many…

Tagged with: behaviour, Creativity, culture, discrimination, employee engagement, habits, harassment, incompetence, jerk, performance, productivity, relationships, responsibility, toxic, unethical
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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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Accountability Leads Collaboration

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

While accountability is effective in establishing behaviour based expectations for performance, the key is to remain focused on improved and effective behaviour change. Repeating ineffective behaviour that is revealed in feedback and accountability ultimately creates a great deal of damage…

Tagged with: accountability, actions, alignment, attitudes, behaviour, beliefs, change, collaboration, consequences, expectation, expectations, mental model, ownership, performance, relationships, responsibility, thoughts
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Performance Requires Behaviour Skill

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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,…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, consistent, employees, engagement, feedback, followers, influence, leadership, organizational, performance, positive behaviour, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness, self-evaluation, soft skills, success
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Correcting Your Zero

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

You’ve maybe heard the saying “Correcting Your Zero”. It refers to a starting point and sight-adjustment for rifle marksmanship. In essence, at the organizational level we have a misaligned zero of personal performance revealed by the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, effectiveness, mission, performance, positive presence, relationships, strength-based, values, vision, wellness
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How Accurate is Your Shot?

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: authority, compassionate, culture, Emotions, empathic, habits, influence, interpersonal, leader, leadership, performance, positive, positive presence, relationship, self-awareness, strength-based, teams
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