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…
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3 Steps to Positive Confrontation
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Life With A Purpose
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
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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Trust or Collaboration?
The fundamental purpose of building and sustaining trust is to accomplish tasks and achieve goals. This is true for any enterprise, whether for-profit or not-for-profit. In this way, trust is an operational and a collaborative imperative. In health care organizations,…
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The Art of Gratitude
Angeles Arrien, in her book “Living in Gratitude: A Journey That Will Change Your Life”, says that although gratefulness often arises spontaneously, it is also a choice we make. She identifies the four universal portals to the practice and virtue…
Tagged with: abundance, authentic, blessings, change, Character, community, contribution, energized, Gratitude, health, honest, learnings, mercies, mindset, positive, positive presence, protections, purpose, relationships, social, spiritual, Stability, support, values, well-being, work
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Leading Amid Complexity
Significant change initiatives, in organizations today, often focus on technology and process neglecting to take the human factor, the people, into equal consideration. Regardless of the industry and the cliché, leaders must accept that the most valuable asset, relative to…
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Be the Leader People Want to Follow
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 authority providing neither effective leadership nor effective management. The issue is not change resistance.…
Tagged with: active listening, change, collaboration, communication, connection, followership, goals, leadership, management, objectives, performance, positive emotional connection, productivity, purpose, team
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Build Your Best Workplace Now
How often do we ask ourselves, “How do I create the best possible workplace where people wake up in the middle of the night disappointed it is not time to go to work yet?”… Now that you have finished laughing…
Tagged with: attitudes, awareness, change, coachable, collaboration, conflict, culture, dysfunction, dysfunctional employees, energy, engagement, frustration, intangibles, leader behaviour, motivation, performance, positive attitude, purpose, self-management, stress, success, tangibles, teachable, toxic behaviour, workplace environment
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The Hierarchy of Organization Behavioural Needs
In 1943 Abraham Maslow developed what many of us know as “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.” His theory is that human psychology revolves around a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. As you may…
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The Seven Employee Needs
Many leaders are unaware of the needs and concerns of their workforce. Unmet needs produce strong negative feelings and resentment. These employees become complainers, cynics, and faultfinders. They resist change, and they disengage from the culture and all initiatives. They…
Tagged with: accountability, Achievement, ambiguous, Appreciation, belonging, Challenge, complex, Control, Growth, inclusion, Learning, Meaning, positive emotional fulfillment, positive presence, Power, purpose, Recognition, Trust
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