It is not uncommon in today’s business culture to find organizations where someone is in charge of engagement as though you could assign it or delegate it. You cannot create a culture of engagement through an organizational chart. Where you…
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What Is An Engaged And Committed Workforce?
Tagged with: accomplishments, collaborative, culture, engagement, improvements, initiatives, leadership, motivated, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, relationships
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Do You Have a Toxic Work Environment?
Some surveys show that as many as half of all front-line workers feel low levels of work engagement stemming in part from poor leadership. If any one person, regardless of technical ability, cannot connect and cooperate with other people, the…
Tagged with: attitude, behavioural competency, cooperate, detrimental, engagement, leadership, performance, positive presence, strength-driving behaviours, toxic work environment
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Are You Motivated to Change?
Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you to form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective leader. Achieving the goal of effective leadership requires daily practice…
Tagged with: Achievement, behaviour, behaviour strengths, change, collaborations, effectiveness, leadership, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, success
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What is Your Leadership Strength?
Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? To help answer this question, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie have classified leadership strengths into four domains: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, behaviour preference, collaboration, connection, leadership, performance, positive presence, relationships, strength, success
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Learning from HeartMath
Well over 20 years ago Doc Childre and a group of 30 researchers and entrepreneurs gathered to explore the connection between the metaphorical and physical heart, and in 1991 they formed the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) as a nonprofit research…
Tagged with: anxiety, Autonomic Nervous System, coherence, consciousness, culture, Emotional, feelings, health, HeartMath, mental, performance, positive presence, productivity, stress, success, synergy, thoughts, torus, wellbeing
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Focus On Behaviour, Not Technical Skills
It is behaviour and relationship skills that bring out the technical competencies and enable the job of a leader to be done well. At higher levels of leadership (e.g., chief executives), technical skills are even less important than good behaviour…
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Communication – The KPI for Collaboration
Much of the communication in today’s organizations entails an exchange, wherein all parties involved must act as both giver and recipient of information. This exchange ensures that the information is received and the recipient has an opportunity to express agreement,…
Tagged with: collaboration, collaborations, communication, connectivity, exchange, human, intent, language, Learning, organizations, overload, performance, positive, positive presence, Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies, positivity, socialness, stress
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Self-Awareness: The Basic Competency
In our ever-increasing competitive business climate, organizations continue to seek any advantage that will give them edge on their competition. Many have found that one solution is to improve their leadership culture. To do that you must begin with self-awareness…
Tagged with: behaviour, beliefs, credibility, culture, Emotions, inspiring traits, leadership, mindset, organizational performance, performance, positive, positive presence, preferences, qualities, success, Trust, values
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DYK (Did You Know?)
Did you know that today’s work environments are a breeding ground for bad stress … the kind of stress that sucks the life out of you; that causes stress-related illnesses like migraines and insomnia; that causes mind-fog and burnout? Scientific…
Tagged with: ambiguity, behaviours, brain, burnout, change, chaos, clear mind, collaboration, communication, complex, culture, emotional wellness, energized, focused mind, illness, innovate, knowledge worker, mental wellness, mind-fog, negativity, neuroplasticity, pandemic, performance, physical wellbeing, positive, positive presence, Power, strengthening, stress, thoughts
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The Mental Muscle of Attention
The technological revolution of the 21st century has rendered time management ideas and skills of the past obsolete. The saying that “Time can’t be managed – it just is” has never been more true … and in today’s age of…
Tagged with: attention, behaviour, cognitive functioning, distractions, energized mindset, feelings, health, performance, positive energy, proactive attention, productive, productivity, relationships, self-awareness, thoughts, value, working style
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