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Leader Connection Drives Performance

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: attitude, behaviour, behaviour competency, brain, connection, influential leader, leader, leadership, learned helplessness., mediocrity, mindset, need, Negative, neurosciences, performance, positive presence, purpose, relationships, scarcity, team, thought, Trust, want
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Leadership Is All About Followership

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

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 leadership providing neither effective leadership nor effective management. The issue is not change resistance.…

Tagged with: change, collaboration, communication, connection, desires, emotional connection, followership, leadership, listen, listening, management, managers, needs, performance, Positive Connection, positive presence, productivity, purpose, Resistance, team, wants
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This New Year: A New Mindset

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

The business and professional climates that we work in today are getting increasingly more complex, more ambiguous, more demanding, and in continuous fast-paced change. Each day the markets in which we compete grow as technology increases the reach of our…

Tagged with: ambiguous, behaviour, challenges, change, complex, culture, determined, focused, goals, health, initiative, innovation, markets, mindset, positive, positive presence, problem solving, productivity, professional climates, team, team work, technology, thought habits
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What Culture Says About You as a Leader

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, contributors, culture, Emotional, engagement, leader, leadership, mindset, motivators, perform, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, satisfaction, team
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Collaboration – Culture or Skill?

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Neuroscience has proven that positive emotional energy is necessary for the kind of behaviour that fosters collaboration. That kind of behaviour skill requires not only a huge amount of self-awareness and understanding of one’s personal behaviour preferences and how you…

Tagged with: collaboration, communicate, compassionate, competent, cooperative attitudes, courageous, culture, honest, listening, neuroscience, performance, positive emotional energy, positive presence, reliable, responsibility, self-awareness, Sharing, strength-building behaviours, team, transparency, Trust
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The Skill of Positive Presence

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Leaders that have high-level skills in Positive Presence™ and the Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies of Influential Leadership, are very aware when there is a lack of accountability and therefore behave and urge others to behave, in a manner that promotes…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, Emotions, Excellence, leaders, leadership, mental models, mindset, positive presence, productivity, responsibility, team
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A People Culture is the Heart of Performance

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

A number of thoughtful people have said many times, in a variety of ways, and it deserves repeating here: “People never connect and commit to an organization’s mission and vision until they first connect and commit to its leaders. Influential…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, commitment, connection, culture, Emotions, engagement, heart, leaders, mission, neuro-chemical, performance, responsibility, strengths, succeed, success, team, vision
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The Value of a Cooperative Attitude

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

A cooperative attitude inhibits destructive competition. Cooperation, on the other hand, is the ‘new’ constructive competition. While competition among teams can be healthy in that it brings out personal bests and team bests, it can quickly lead to negative or…

Tagged with: attitude, behaviour, collaborative, communication, Competition, consequences, cooperation, dysfunctional behaviour, functional team, leader, morale, motivation, Negative, performance, positive presence, team
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Is Technical Competence Enough?

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

“Is it not enough that I am good at my job?” The simple and short answer to this question is, “no!” In 1627, English poet, John Donne, wrote that “no man is an island unto himself.” No matter where we…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, competence, connection, cooperate, development, dysfunctional, engagement, goals, Growth, harmony, influence, leadership, performance, positive, positive presence, productive, team, Technical
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What is Meaningful Connection?

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Connection increases a leader’s influence among followers, and this influence in turn spurs followers to do more: improve their behaviour, develop their skills and talents, work better and harder, seek and participate in collaborations or teams, and achieve greater results.…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, connection, Excellence, followers, influence, leadership, Meaningful Connection, mind, performance, positive, positive presence, Strategy, team, thinking, thoughts
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