Emotionally aware leaders understand their own (and, by extension, their employees) emotional triggers. Emotional triggers are people, events, conditions, or experiences that arouse intense negative reactions. Incompetence, micromanagement, constantly missing or incomplete information, arrogant and superior attitude, lack of communication,…
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Emotions at work – A Simple Strategy
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The Emotional Dimension of Performance
Human emotions are as complex as they are varied. In a span of one day, we all experience a significant number of emotional highs and lows. An average person in a high-stress environment may experience even more. Emotions do not…
Leadership Development in Today’s World
A critical problem in management generally is scarcity of leaders who possess the necessary ‘Influential Leadership’ behaviours that propel organizations to greatness and guide them through significant challenges. There are plenty of managers and leaders who possess superb technical, operational…
Tagged with: behaviours, continuous improvement, development, influential leadership, leadership, management, performance, positive human energy, quality, success, thought patterns, workplace
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The Behaviour Element of Performance Excellence
Performance can be illustrated by this simple formula: Performance= technical skill x behavioural skill. In high-risk industries, such as health care delivery, an imbalance between these two elements of performance (technical skill and behavioural skill) can result in poor work…
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The Five Basic Leader Behaviour Skills
At the heart of organizational performance and a performance driven culture is performance at the individual level – and more specifically, individual leader behaviour skills. To help you reframe and refocus your thinking on behaviour competency to drive performance, consider…
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Six Behaviour Attitudes of Enlightened Leadership
It is a known fact that when people are engaged positively with their leader they are more likely to be engaged in their work. Enlightened leaders succeed where other leaders fail because they perform at a higher level, are more…
Are Your People Connections Positive or Negative?
What is it that achieves results for organizations to succeed? Is it the methods, tools, technologies, protocols and systems, or is it the people? There is no doubt – it is your people that achieve results. The methods, tools, technologies,…
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Connection as a Leadership Strategy
One of the most critical components, in fact, perhaps the most critical component of leadership success is the ability to connect with people. You cannot lead without connecting. Connection is an expression of leader compassion, trust, security, and hope. You…
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What is Your Leader’s Trust Level?
Trust enables your team not only to perform its daily function but also to rise above conflicts and crises. In today’s fast-paced, complex, ambiguous environment of constant change, conflicts and crises abound within the organization. So in order to succeed,…
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Collaboration as a Performance Improvement Strategy
Collaboration is a partnership between people and or groups intended to generate a product or achieve a singular objective that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Collaboration tends to move forward any kind of work or goal faster than…
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