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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…

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Behaviour Smarts

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective and influential leader as you stop being merely a boss. Achieving…

Tagged with: accountability, action, behaviour, change, Choice, collaborations, comfort zones, empowered, Excellence, goals, leader, mental models, motivated, motivation, performance, purpose, relationships, responsibility, self-awareness, strengths, success, team
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The 4 Domains of Leadership Strength

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? Have you ever wondered why other people’s behaviour rubs you the wrong way? A core belief of an Influential Leader is that the people they lead want to…

Tagged with: alignment, analyzer, behaviour, behaviour preference, belief, change, chaos, collaboration, communication, connection, Driver, Emotions, executing, fatigue, influencing, inspires, leader, leadership, motivates, performance, persuader, purpose, relationship, stabilizer, strategic, strength, stress, value, visioning
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Are You a Boss Or a Leader?

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery said that, “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” If you desire to have a stronger, more productive organization where your…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, Boss, commitment, confidence, develop, Emotional, engagement, enthusiasm, grow, inspire, leader, leadership, listening, objectives, performance, productive, purpose, Trust, understand
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Leader Connection Drives Performance

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

As a leader you are responsible for giving your people reasons to follow you. You do this by understanding what they want and need to fulfill their work requirements and contribute to a mutual and beneficial meaningful purpose in their…

Tagged with: attitude, behaviour, behaviour competency, brain, connection, influential leader, leader, leadership, learned helplessness., mediocrity, mindset, need, Negative, neurosciences, performance, positive presence, purpose, relationships, scarcity, team, thought, Trust, want
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Leadership Is All About Followership

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s professional world, people are craving effective leadership. Middle level managers and their team members are overburdened and uninspired by individuals holding titled positions of leadership providing neither effective leadership nor effective management. The issue is not change resistance.…

Tagged with: change, collaboration, communication, connection, desires, emotional connection, followership, leadership, listen, listening, management, managers, needs, performance, Positive Connection, positive presence, productivity, purpose, Resistance, team, wants
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In Pursuit of Performance (not Perfection)

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.” Legendary football coach Vince…

Tagged with: behavior skill, cognitive strength, collaboration, connection, culture, Excellence, goals, leaders, mental, mental toughness, objectives, Perfection, performance, performance excellence, positive presence, purpose, resilience, self-awareness, self-discipline, stress, technical skill, vision
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The Human Factor

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Improving the performance of an organization requires improving the behavioural performance of all of its people at a cultural level. An organization cannot become what its people are not. Simply stated, conforming behaviours within a collaborative culture really matter. It…

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Managing the Human Element: The Toxic Employee

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

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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Organizations Do Not Do Things – People Do

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

TQM, Total Quality Management, is a philosophy first and process improvement second, however most people equate the ‘Deming Cycle’ of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) to process improvement initiatives such as SixSigma and LEAN. Dr. Deming continually emphasized, however, that organizational quality is…

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