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Adaptability – Resiliency to Respond to Changing Events

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Developing a strategy for ‘Connection’ can have enormous influence on the way your people think and connect and plays an important role in fundamental transformation of any businesses culture and work environment. There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be…

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Transforming Connection – People First

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Connection is a powerful strategy used by enlightened leaders to transform their workplaces and create dynamic and powerful teams. These teams are not only capable of weathering adversity but achieving high levels of performance excellence. Creating and sustaining positive and…

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How Positive (Or Not) Are You?

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Over time, negative experiences erode the leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective relations but whose behaviour does very little to advance that cause. These leaders ignore or do not…

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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Feel Like?

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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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Social Relationships Matter

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

There is lots of researcher indicating that social cohesion (the result of highly effective relationships) accounts for roughly one quarter of a team’s performance. Think about this in terms of productivity. Consider a department with target revenue of $100 million…

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Leaders that Hinder Connection

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

You cannot make a connection with others if you are not connected to yourself. That simple truth gets lost in the daily flurry of activity in the workplace. Even the most conscientious leaders can be blind to habits that serve…

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Life With A Purpose

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Colonel Joshua Chamberlin, an 1863 British soldier demonstrated the power of living a life of purpose. Discovering your life’s purpose stimulates volition, urging you to perform at a higher level. Performance rather than success should be the goal because success…

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Leaders Must Say No to the Status Quo

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Leaders today need to be highly dissatisfied with the status quo. They must be unwilling to allow preventable pain and suffering to continue needlessly. They must be unwilling to waste precious resources and to settle for second-rate productivity and financial…

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Making the Connection

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into these relationships translates into either a negative or positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your interactions as good…

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You Cannot Lead Them If You Don’t Love Them

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

All new leaders must realize that for people to truly follow your lead, they first must believe that you, as their leader have their very best interests at heart. This belief is grounded in a positive emotional connection between the…

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