One of the most critical components, in fact, perhaps the most critical component of leadership success is the ability to connect with people. You cannot lead without connecting. Connection is an expression of leader compassion, trust, security, and hope. You…
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Connection as a Leadership Strategy
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What is Your Leader’s Trust Level?
Trust enables your team not only to perform its daily function but also to rise above conflicts and crises. In today’s fast-paced, complex, ambiguous environment of constant change, conflicts and crises abound within the organization. So in order to succeed,…
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The Eight Behaviours of Trust
Trust is a complex and far-reaching concept that pervades our personal and professional pursuits. We cannot bottle trust and sell it. Trust is based on an individual’s mental model that people are generally honorable. Social and ethical theorist Russell Hardin…
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Are You Leading in the Dark? Three Lights of Accountability
In a collaborative culture accountability is a visible practice and framework. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s mission, vision, values, and how they personally fit into the framework. They are given…
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Collaboration as a Performance Improvement Strategy
Collaboration is a partnership between people and or groups intended to generate a product or achieve a singular objective that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Collaboration tends to move forward any kind of work or goal faster than…
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The Feedback Loop of Change
Giving and receiving feedback is probably one of life’s greatest challenges both personally and professionally. As leaders, it is critical to continually develop our capacity for both giving and receiving feedback, both positive and negative. Most would agree that giving…
Tagged with: behaviour, change, cognitive dissonance, creative thought processes, discipline, feedback, human energy, mental toughness, positive presence
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Six Questions to Becoming an Influential Leader
As leaders we must always be pursuing new avenues that can improve or enhance our overall leadership influence. In today’s knowledge economy, we must continually transform our own leadership effectiveness, the performance of our people, and the overall productivity of…
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The Key to Collaboration: Cooperative Attitude
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
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…
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The #1 KPI for Future Leaders
Successful leadership of the future will require a complete culture shift to a new leadership mindset of connectivity. In the developed world, our organizations are now composed primarily of knowledge workers – people who have a lot of education and…
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