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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,

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Why Great Leaders are Unforgettable – and Bad Leaders Too!

You have probably heard the saying, “A truly great leader is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.” The same adage holds for bad leaders too, at least the “impossible to forget” part. Did you ever

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Jerks at Work

No one wants to work with the proverbial jerk at work. These people are disruptive to performance and productivity and are now making their organizations targets for lawsuits. Note that performance failure typically is not the result of the absence

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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

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An Energized Workplace: The 4 Steps Recapped

As we recap the 4 Step Process for an energized workforce outlined in my previous posts it becomes clear that leaders of the future will have to do far more ‘inside’ work than was required of their predecessors. Step 1

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An Energized Workplace: Step 4

When we accept that in today’s economy, all organizations are quickly becoming knowledge-based organizations (if they’re not already) made up predominantly of educated employees who are often professionals in their own right; And when we accept that the nature itself

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An Energized Workplace: Step 3

One of the most detrimental beliefs in today’s business world is that a stress-free work environment will result in happy workers. But is that true? In fact, is that even realistic? The global workforce has changed employment patterns in all

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An Energized Workplace: Step 2

In the 2012 Global Workforce Study by Towers Watson it was revealed that “engagement, as traditionally defined, is not sufficient to give employers the sustained performance lift they need – or keep employees doing their work effectively in today’s pressured

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An Energized Workplace: Step 1

The ultimate goal of human existence is to live a joyful and abundant life. Everyone strives for that existence – whether they know it or not. When we consider that we spend a great part of our waking hours at

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