“To lead them you have to be with them.” In his award-winning best seller, We Were Soldiers Once and Young, Lt. General Hal Moore spoke this basic leadership lesson to his junior officers. While operating rooms, shop floors, assembly lines,…
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The 4 Essential Leadership Skills for Followership
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Leader Connection Drives Performance
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…
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance
The truth is that the so-called soft skills of behaviour are really the hard skills that create the measure of influence for performance success. Time and again the fundamental problems related to the lack of engagement and work performance enhancement…
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The Jerk at Work
In a moment of self- reflection, ask yourself the following question, “Are my current habits and behaviour getting me to where I want to go?” If the answer is “No” you need to consider making some changes. Far too many…
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Behaviour Drives Performance Excellence
There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for highly effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. Here is the reality check. Few people are willing to…
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What Culture Says About You as a Leader
Gone are the days when a paycheck, the employee of the month award, and the gold watch at retirement were sufficient motivators for people to perform at their best or to remain loyal and dedicated to the organization. Just as…
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Relationship Killers
Collaboration in any organization requires three elements – effective communication, a cooperative attitude, and integrated teams. All three of these elements are based on the principles of human factors psychology which is the study of human behavioural patterns and thinking…
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Accountability Leads Collaboration
While accountability is effective in establishing behaviour based expectations for performance, the key is to remain focused on improved and effective behaviour change. Repeating ineffective behaviour that is revealed in feedback and accountability ultimately creates a great deal of damage…
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Performance Requires Behaviour Skill
It is worth noting that leadership failure typically is not the result of the absence of technical skill, but in fact, incompetence in behavioural skill. You will likely gain higher levels of management responsibility based on your technical skill performance,…
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Correcting Your Zero
You’ve maybe heard the saying “Correcting Your Zero”. It refers to a starting point and sight-adjustment for rifle marksmanship. In essence, at the organizational level we have a misaligned zero of personal performance revealed by the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of…
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