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The Key to Collaboration – A Cooperative Attitude

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

A cooperative attitude is performance power. And a cooperative attitude is critical to building strong, sustainable teams. We know that when teams are engaged by their leadership in a cooperative environment not only is there in an increase in employee…

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Why Effective Communication Matters

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Remember that communication starts and stops all collaborations. We cannot begin to collaborate without effective and functional conversations. Of greatest importance is for team members to be able to share vital information without fear of experiencing intimidation, retaliation, rude, demeaning,…

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The Organizational Factors of Ineffective Communication

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Can we place too much emphasis on the need for open and effective communication? There are entire books, lectures, and even professional organizations dedicated to researching and improving overall communication in the workforce. What all this attention on communication says…

Leadership Capacity For Exceptional Performance

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

It’s a simple question – what is the difference between leading and managing? While many of us can explain the difference between the two, the fact remains that many of us go about our daily behaviour simply ‘managing’, without making…

The ‘Quick-Test’ of Engagement

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

All leaders we must realize that for people to truly follow your lead, they first must believe that you, as their leader, have their best interests at heart. This belief is grounded in a positive emotional connection between the leader…

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Is Employee Satisfaction Enough?

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

While employee satisfaction is still a goal for many organizations, it is no longer sufficient to achieve and sustain high levels of performance in today’s economically strained environment. Just as technology has increased the borders of our markets, it has…

The Employee Engagement Roller Coaster

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

The climate that we work in today is getting increasingly more competitive and our organizations are more complex and ambiguous than ever before in history. Each day the markets in which we compete grow and change. In this increasingly competitive…

One Bad Apple – One Bad Barrel

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Many of us have heard the phrase “one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual workplace behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil the whole…

Thriving in the Chaos

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

When we accept that the nature of today’s work environments is inherently complex, ambiguous, fast-paced, constantly changing and requires a continuous high level of excellence, then we must acknowledge that workplace ‘stress’ is here to stay and our job now…

The ‘Energy Factor’ of an Energized Workforce

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

In the “State of the Global Workplace 2022 Report” by Gallup it was revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic era put a halt to a long period of gradual but general improvement in engagement among the world’s workers. This matters for…