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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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Attentiveness – Focus on Others

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Developing a strategy for ‘Connection’ can have enormous influence on the way your people think and connect, and plays an important role in fundamental transformation of any businesses culture and work environment. There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be…

Tagged with: Adaptability, alertness, Attentiveness, attitude, connection, culture, disengaged, emotional sensitivity, goals, influence, morale, motivation, objectives, Others, quality, resiliency, Strategy, team, transformation, unmotivated
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Leading Under Stress – What Does it Look Like?

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

Part of our understanding about stress and managing our response to it, is being aware of and using the strengths of our individual behaviour patterns. We all know that change and chaos are constants in our knowledge and technology driven…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour strengths, brain function, change, chaos, emotional energy, performance, positive outcomes, positive presence, strengths, stress, team, transformational
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Leading Under Stress – The Choice Is Yours

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

There is no doubt that stress impacts your thinking and decision making, and it impacts how you choose to react in any given situation. As a leader, stress will impact everyone in your workplace that experiences you in a negative…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, emotional energy, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, stress, team, thinking, values, workplace
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