Influential leaders know how to create and sustain highly functional teams that are resilient and engaged. Team building is not about technical skill. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour and putting the focus on behaviour skill competencies…
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Teamwork Drives Organizational Performance
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Cooperation Is The New Constructive Competition
A cooperative attitude inhibits destructive competition. While competition among teams can be healthy in that it brings out personal and team bests, energy and commitment to work, it can quickly lead to negative or dysfunctional behaviour. Competition can turn some…
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The Key to Collaboration – A Cooperative Attitude
A cooperative attitude is performance power. And a cooperative attitude is critical to building strong, sustainable teams. We know that when teams are engaged by their leadership in a cooperative environment not only is there in an increase in employee…
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The Employee Engagement Roller Coaster
The climate that we work in today is getting increasingly more competitive and our organizations are more complex and ambiguous than ever before in history. Each day the markets in which we compete grow and change. In this increasingly competitive…
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One Bad Apple – One Bad Barrel
Many of us have heard the phrase “one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual workplace behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil the whole…
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Creating Real Change
Think about all the people who have had leadership responsibility and authority over you. Who inspired, believed, and encouraged you? When I reflect on this question, several teachers— from grade school to graduate school—come to mind. These teachers pushed me…
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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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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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The Bottom Line of Influence
Your ability to influence as a leader is directly proportional to how you choose to lead yourself and manage the impact of your behaviour on others. A few bad habits can nullify your influence on the people who desire for…
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Transforming Connection – People First
Connection is a powerful strategy used by enlightened leaders to transform their workplaces and create dynamic and powerful teams. These teams are not only capable of weathering adversity but achieving high levels of performance excellence. Creating and sustaining positive and…
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