Developing the skill of Positive Presence and the Positive Presence behavior competencies results in the kind of focused mental model that opens a person up to learning or being “teachable.” Being teachable, in turn, provides the following advantages: 1. A…
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Being ‘Teachable’
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The Top Three attributes of Cognitive Strength
The following are the top three key attributes of cognitive strength (aka resilience , aka mental toughness) we confront in our daily lives where the ability to have self discipline and resilience is critical to success: 1. Priority Management. —…
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Resilience (aka Mental Toughness, aka Cognitive Strength)
How you manage the responses to events in your life speak volumes about the outcomes you will experience, both personally and professionally. What’s more, how you manage the responses to events in your life also affects every single relationship you…
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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Look Like?
Part of our understanding about stress and managing our response to it, is being aware of and using the strengths of our individual behaviour patterns. We all know that change and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven…
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Leading Under Stress – The Choice Is Yours
There is no doubt that stress impacts your thinking and decision making, and it impacts how you choose to react in any given situation. As a leader, stress will impact everyone in your workplace that experiences you in a negative…
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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Feel Like?
Stress, defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, is “a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life and work; something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety; physical force or pressure.” In today’s business and health care…
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Behaviour Accountability
This is the most challenging aspect of the coaching and counseling process: To adequately acknowledge the need to change behaviour, a person must be compelled to search for, examine and question those unconscious assumptions they have buried deep in the…
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The Accountability of Change
A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The…
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Keeping Conflict and Confrontation Constructive
Everyone faces it — conflict and confrontation. It cannot be avoided in today’s fast-paced workplace … but it doesn’t have to be a negative experience. We can choose it to be, well if not positive, at least constructive. The first…
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Are You Change Capable?
In today’s knowledge economy your behaviour is the most critical element in your performance, and you have the ability to manage it. If you conduct a self-examination, you will learn why and how to transform your daily routine from simply…
Tagged with: actions to improve, behaviour, change, Emotions, habits, knowledge economy, mindsets, Negative, performance, positive presence, Resistance, self-awareness, self-examination
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