Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into relationships with your colleagues translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your…
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Are You Aware Enough to Connect?
Tagged with: behaviour, care, connections, emotional awareness, high-performance, leader behaviour, Negative, neurosciences, positive, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness
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The Emotional Bank – How Wealthy Are You?
Self-examination reveals many things, including your level of sincerity, which is a trait all enlightened leaders share. Sincerity is synonymous with genuineness, honesty, and authenticity. In his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey presented the…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, cohesion, confidence, connections, credibility, emotional awareness, Emotional Bank, Emotions, harmony, mindset, performance, positive, positive presence, relationships, sincerity, Trust, unity
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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…
Tagged with: adversity, cognitive strength, mental toughness, positive, positive presence, resilience, responses, stress
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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…
Tagged with: accountability, attitudes, behaviour, Choice, coaching, counseling, dissonance, effective, experiences, high performers, internal change, internal drivers, mindset, morale, patterns, positive, positive presence, productive, unconscious assumptions
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Managing the Human Element: The Toxic Employee
Virtually all the advice on getting people to engage in their work and increase their productivity is predicated on a false assumption, namely that any form of outside influence will result in lasting internal change, stimulating pride, purpose, motivation and…
Tagged with: attitude, beliefs, change, consequences, Creativity, ethics, human, innovation, internal attitude, leadership, motivation, performance, positive, pride, purpose, teamwork, toxic, values
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3 Steps to Positive Confrontation
All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people can be energized, engaged, and fully aware of their meaningful contributions to the enterprise. Much of the personal and organizational…
Tagged with: conflict, Confrontation, constructive, contributions, culture, deliberate, Growth, intentional, leaders, mental model, mind set, mission, positive, prosperity, purpose, relationships, resolution
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Workplace Connectedness
As the knowledge economy evolves amidst the chaos and complexity, so too leadership, as we’ve always known it, must also evolve and change. Today’s environment of chaos and complexity rends the idea of leader as controller and guardian an impossible…
Tagged with: Challenge, change, chaos, complexity, connectedness, connectivity, contribution, convictions, Emotions, engaging, evolve, guiding, inspiring, interconnectedness, knowledge economy, leader, leadership, organizational success, participation, performance, positive, relationships, self-awareness, system
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The New ‘Lean’ Is All About Behaviour!
After the Second World War, the Japanese economy was in ruins. The American economy on the other hand was booming. As a result, a number of leading quality management gurus (Deming and Juran) travelled to Japan to share their teachings.…
Tagged with: behavior, behaviour, change, coherent, disruptive, employees, energy, environment, feelings, Flexibility, habits, improvement strategy, knowledge-based, Negative, patterns, positive, positive presence, productive, smoothness, synergy, thoughts, toxic, value
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What Is An Engaged And Committed Workforce?
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. You cannot create a culture of engagement through an organizational chart. Where you…
Tagged with: accomplishments, collaborative, culture, engagement, improvements, initiatives, leadership, motivated, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, relationships
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Be Great A Decade At A Time
I recently listened to an author say that if they reflected on their life in the past three decades, and taken into account all the unique changes that occurred in those three separate spans of time, they could not have…
Tagged with: achievable, change, culture, fast-paced, goals, leadership, linear, positive, positive presence, Prioritize, realistic, strength-giving
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