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The Performance Power In Your People

The business and professional climates in which you work remain increasingly competitive. Each day competitive markets grow as technology spans the vast array of global industries. These rapidly changing environments are causing ambiguities and confusion about the roles and responsibilities

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What’s Your Style?

Identifying your own and being aware of others’ behavioural style will contribute to your leadership success in several ways. First, this recognition improves your interaction and communication with others so that your interaction with that person accomplishes its goal. For

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Emotional Awareness – How Do You Engage?

Its important to note that, for the most part, your brain is not wired for the positive – you are actually predisposed to the negative.  But, your brain can be easily taught to recognize the negative, then release the negative,

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5 Questions to Becoming An Emotionally Aware Leader

Emotionally aware leaders understand their own (and, by extension, their employees) emotional triggers.  Emotional triggers are people, events, conditions, or experiences that arouse intense negative reactions.  Incompetence, micromanagement, constantly missing or incomplete information, arrogant and superior attitude, lack of communication,

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Emotional Awareness – A Must for Organizational Wellness

Leaders without emotional awareness, do not relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact

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Leading Change Through Chaos

It is inevitable actually, that you will at some point in your career find yourself faced with the necessity to make a change that you don’t agree with, for whatever the reason. … and the reasons are unlimited. One reason

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Can You Embrace Change?

Let’s face it, if we are not changing, chances are we’re not alive. Resistance to change is normal and natural. You see, the minute your brain realizes you are moving out of your ‘comfort zone’…it automatically sets off the famous

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The Emotional Dimension of Performance

Human emotions are as complex as they are varied. In a span of one day, we all experience a significant number of emotional highs and lows. An average person in a high-stress environment may experience even more. Emotions do not

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The Professionally Artful Apology

At the heart of sustaining highly effective relationships is the skill of expressing a professionally artful apology. There are various excuses people give for refusing to apologize for inappropriate, disrespectful, rude, and a host of other more toxic behaviours. Whatever

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Oh, That Bad Behaviour!

Far too many people are unaware of how they are perceived by family, friends, and professional colleagues. We all know, and it is easy for us to recognize, other people with bad habits, and disturbing, and disruptive behaviours. The harder

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