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The Performance Power In Your People

The business and professional climates in which you work remain increasingly competitive. Each day competitive markets grow as technology spans the vast array of global industries. These rapidly changing environments are causing ambiguities and confusion about the roles and responsibilities

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How Do You Influence Others?

Sometimes you cannot articulate why you like or dislike someone’s behaviour, because often your internal preferences are unconscious. Behaviour preference or style, aka social/communication style, has been around for decades. Basically, everyone falls into one of four styles, frequently set

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The Value of Behaviour Style aka Social/Communication Style

As a human you are a complex manufacturing plant for electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy.  Positive emotions exist in positive energy.  Your energy is basically your thoughts and feelings which manifest into the physical world as behaviour.  Learning and developing your skill

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The Seven Employee Needs – What’s Missing?

Many leaders are unaware of the needs and concerns of their workforce. Unmet needs produce strong negative feelings and resentment. These employees become complainers, cynics, and faultfinders. They resist change, and they disengage from the culture and all initiatives. They

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Understanding Emotional Needs In Today’s Chaos

Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal title or role) who possess the mind and behaviour habits that create positive and energized emotions within themselves and around them.  They are emotionally aware leaders, and they actively seek information

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Emotional Awareness Using Your Skill of Positive Presence

Authenticity, humility, honesty, and courage are hallmark leadership traits that research has attributed to a leader’s emotional awareness. In today’s knowledge economy in which the majority of your workforce is made up of knowledge workers – those people whose jobs

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5 Questions to Becoming An Emotionally Aware Leader

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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Emotional Awareness – A Must for Organizational Wellness

Leaders without emotional awareness, do not relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact

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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

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Leadership Development in Today’s World

A number of factors contribute to the failure of leadership development programs today. Among these is the limited participation by senior leadership in the training and in holding people accountable for changing behaviour following the training. Limited participation signals a

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