“If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” –Gilbert Amelio, former CEO of Apple. Methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People…
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Deep Emotional Connection – Is It Needed?
Tagged with: accountability, change, collaboration, connection, emotional connection, energy, engagement, leader, motivation, performance, Positive Connection, positive presence, self-awareness, success, Trust
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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…
Tagged with: empower, Experience, grow, mission, optimism, performance, productivity, purpose, success, thinking, Trust, urgency, vision, volition
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The Role Of The Leader In Promoting Accountability
An ‘influential leader’ is a leader with or without rank or position who leads with a positive mindset and is versed in the behaviour competencies of Self-awareness, Collaboration and Connection. In a collaborative culture with an ‘influential leader’, accountability is…
Tagged with: accountability, collaboration, collaborative culture, confusion, connection, distrust, engagement, Excellence, fear, influential leader, measures, objectives, position, positive mindset, positive presence, rank, responsibility, success, underachievement
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Are You Motivated to Change?
Practicing self-awareness and identifying your behaviour strengths will help you manage your behaviour choices and help you to form effective collaborations. These are the key steps to becoming an effective leader. Achieving the goal of effective leadership requires daily practice…
Tagged with: Achievement, behaviour, behaviour strengths, change, collaborations, effectiveness, leadership, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, success
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What is Your Leadership Strength?
Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? To help answer this question, Tom Rath and Barry Conchie have classified leadership strengths into four domains: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, behaviour preference, collaboration, connection, leadership, performance, positive presence, relationships, strength, success
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Learning from HeartMath
Well over 20 years ago Doc Childre and a group of 30 researchers and entrepreneurs gathered to explore the connection between the metaphorical and physical heart, and in 1991 they formed the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) as a nonprofit research…
Tagged with: anxiety, Autonomic Nervous System, coherence, consciousness, culture, Emotional, feelings, health, HeartMath, mental, performance, positive presence, productivity, stress, success, synergy, thoughts, torus, wellbeing
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Self-Awareness: The Basic Competency
In our ever-increasing competitive business climate, organizations continue to seek any advantage that will give them edge on their competition. Many have found that one solution is to improve their leadership culture. To do that you must begin with self-awareness…
Tagged with: behaviour, beliefs, credibility, culture, Emotions, inspiring traits, leadership, mindset, organizational performance, performance, positive, positive presence, preferences, qualities, success, Trust, values
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Thinking for Success
You create your own success in your own thoughts. Sounds simple enough, right? Here’s the recipe for it: Be aware of your thinking—take every thought captive. Are they positive? Negative? Ones that will propel you in the direction of success…
Tagged with: actions, behaviours, determination, Emotional, focused, intentional, positive presence, success, thoughts
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A Leader’s Legacy
As a licenced affiliate and certified coach of The Frisina Group’s ‘Center for Influential Leadership’ I am honoured to present the following excerpt from their April 2019 guest newsletter from the Director of The Frisina Group, Robert W. Frisina: A…
Tagged with: behaviour, conflicts, feedback, influential leader, internal changes, leadership potential, leading, legacy, managing, organizational performance, position, self-aware, self-examination, sincerity, status, success, think
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The Science of Success and the Neuroplasticity of the Brain
In the last 10 years or so, a new field of neuroscience has mapped the mental zone that can literally change the brain to quiet an overly active stress response system and simultaneously pave the way for higher brain networks…
Tagged with: brain networks, brain speed, emotional intelligence, emotional wellbeing, higher brain, homeostasis, mental zone, mindset, negative emotion, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, physical wellbeing, positive change, prefrontal cortex, relationships, social intelligence, stress hormones, stress management, stress response, success
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