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.…
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance
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
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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Accountability Leads Collaboration
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
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
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?
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
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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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Peter Drucker said it first, and we have heard it said many times since, that culture is everything to organizational performance. Even so, many organizational leaders still struggle with the behaviour competencies that seem vague, fuzzy, and soft yet so…
Tagged with: behaviour, culture, leaders, mental scripting, performance, Strategy
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