How is Your Focus?
Focus is a fundamental requirement in today’s workplace. In the knowledge workforce focus is necessary for productivity and efficiency; It’s necessary for quality and for safety; It’s necessary for self-awareness;…
Connecting Behaviour to Performance
The belief that a leader’s behaviour is the key predictor to organizational performance is a radical shift in leadership thinking. To develop a performance driven culture a key element is…
Teamwork Drives Organizational Performance
Influential leaders know how to create and sustain highly functional teams that are resilient and engaged. Team building is not about technical skill. Team building is the product of understanding…
How Strong is your Leadership Foundation?
Following are three foundational skills sets that need to be strongly embedded in every leader in order to achieve performance excellence: 1.Develop a Learner’s Attitude Success in every dimension of…
Influential Leadership Behaviours in Today’s World
A critical problem in management generally is scarcity of leaders who possess the necessary ‘Influential Leadership’ behaviours (the ‘mechanics’ or ‘tactical capacity’) that propel organizations to greatness and guide them…
The Key to Collaboration – A 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…
Behaviour Quality Management
Leaders of the future will have to do far more “inside” work than was required of their predecessors. They will have to understand what their personal behaviour preferences are and…
Thriving in the Chaos
When we accept that the nature of today’s work environments is inherently complex, ambiguous, fast-paced, constantly changing and requires a continuous high level of excellence, then we must acknowledge that…
The Cycle of Absenteeism in Health Care
Public health care, in fact the public sector as a whole is wrought with high rates of absenteeism, decreased productivity and quality, and may I say, a less-than-healthy work force?…
Are you a Positive Professional Role Model?
The fastest way to derail any collaborative efforts in an organization is an individual leader’s negative behaviour. Over time, negative experiences erode a leader’s influence. This is particularly true for…