Influential leaders almost always are highly dissatisfied with ‘status quo’. They are unwilling to allow preventable pain and suffering to continue needlessly. They are unwilling to waste precious resources and to settle for second-rate productivity and financial performance. Volition enables…
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Say No to the Status Quo
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The Value of Behaviour Style aka Social/Communication Style
As a human you are a complex manufacturing plant for electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy. Positive emotions exist in positive energy. Your energy is basically your thoughts and feelings which manifest into the physical world as behaviour. Learning and developing your skill…
Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour style, connection, Emotions, energy, feeling, mental patterns, performance, positive energy, positive presence, subconscious, thinking
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The ‘Energy Factor’ of an Energized Workforce
In the “State of the Global Workplace 2022 Report” by Gallup it was revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic era put a halt to a long period of gradual but general improvement in engagement among the world’s workers. This matters for…
Tagged with: behaviours, brain science, connection, Emotions, energy, engagement, meditation, mindfulness, mindset, negative human energy, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, profitability, retention, safety, stress, thinking, workforce
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A New ‘Mindset’ for Leadership Development
We live in a time of great excitement as we watch the world we grew up in literally changing before our eyes. This is the first time in history that we are able to watch the evolution of society as…
Tagged with: ambiguity, brain, compassion, complex, connectivity, creative, critical-thinking, demands, educated, Emotional, enthusiasm, leadership, learning workers, mindset, neuroscience, optimism, organic, positive presence, pressure, scarcity, social, stress, think, thinking
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A New Path to Employee Engagement
The greatest single threat to the future of organizations as we know them today is the inability of leadership to engage its workforce for sustainable satisfaction and engagement. In the recent State Of The Global Workplace Report, Gallup concludes that…
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Working With Stress
Stress is a relational transaction between our self and our environment during which we perceive and appraise events as threatening — in that they are over-taxing to us in some way. As leaders we must learn how to change the…
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The Cycle of Absenteeism in Health Care
Public health care, in fact the public sector as a whole is wrought with high rates of absenteeism, decreased productivity and quality, and may I say, a less-than-healthy work force? The kind of stress caused by the very nature of…
Tagged with: absenteeism, connection, consequence, Emotional, energy, health, hormones, leaders, mental, neurosciences, physical, positive presence, productivity, quality, stress, systemic, thinking
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Collaboration Engages Employees
Today’s complexity, ambiguity and rapid change bring with it the realization that in today’s knowledge-based organizations, and particularly healthcare organizations, it is difficult – or more accurately, impossible — for any one leadership group, on its own, to achieve organizational…
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The Performance Gap
Performance is the product of what we are capable of doing (technical skill) multiplied by what we are willing to do (motivation). In health care delivery, as in other high-risk industries, a gap between these two elements of performance can…
Tagged with: accountable, behaviours, brain function, challenges, change, consequences, emotional energy, Emotions, Improvement, initiative, leadership, management, mindset, motivation, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, processes, productivity, quality, relationships, satisfaction, stress, team, technical skill, thinking, understand, wellness
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What is Meaningful Connection?
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.…
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