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You Are An Influential Leader

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Whether you are in a formal role of leader or not, you are always an influential leader. Influential leaders understand that how they think and behave affects the way they lead. They must be committed to all kinds of improvement…

Six Questions to Becoming an Influential Leader

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

As leaders we must always be pursuing new avenues that can improve or enhance our overall leadership influence. In today’s global economy, we must continually transform our own leadership effectiveness, the performance of our people, and the overall productivity of…

Cooperation Is The New Constructive Competition

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

A cooperative attitude inhibits destructive competition. While competition among teams can be healthy in that it brings out personal and team bests, energy and commitment to work, it can quickly lead to negative or dysfunctional behaviour. Competition can turn some…

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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…

A New Level of Connection

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s organizations, leaders and managers must learn to be effective conduits of information, both tangible and non-tangible alike. Successful organizations will be a continuous looping and re-looping of information, feedback and adjustment. Organizations will have to flatten right out…

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…

How Behaviour drives Employee Engagement

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

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. A culture of engagement is nothing more than the total sum of each…

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…