A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The…
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The Accountability of Change
Tagged with: accountability, assumptions, change, cognitive, Confirmation bias, expectations, focus frames, mental models, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, self-management, thoughts
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The New ‘Lean’ Is All About Behaviour!
After the Second World War, the Japanese economy was in ruins. The American economy on the other hand was booming. As a result, a number of leading quality management gurus (Deming and Juran) travelled to Japan to share their teachings.…
Tagged with: behavior, behaviour, change, coherent, disruptive, employees, energy, environment, feelings, Flexibility, habits, improvement strategy, knowledge-based, Negative, patterns, positive, positive presence, productive, smoothness, synergy, thoughts, toxic, value
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Mindfulness for Stress Release
The complexity, ambiguity and relentless pace of today’s pandemic driven world places gigantic demands on business leaders in every industry. Leaders are working incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They are…
Tagged with: ambiguity, change, complexity, Creativity, emotional intelligence, energized, engagement, focus, mental health, mindfulness, neuroscience, positive presence, Stability, strategic-thinking, stress, thoughts
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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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DYK (Did You Know?)
Did you know that today’s work environments are a breeding ground for bad stress … the kind of stress that sucks the life out of you; that causes stress-related illnesses like migraines and insomnia; that causes mind-fog and burnout? Scientific…
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The Mental Muscle of Attention
The technological revolution of the 21st century has rendered time management ideas and skills of the past obsolete. The saying that “Time can’t be managed – it just is” has never been more true … and in today’s age of…
Tagged with: attention, behaviour, cognitive functioning, distractions, energized mindset, feelings, health, performance, positive energy, proactive attention, productive, productivity, relationships, self-awareness, thoughts, value, working style
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The Five Domains of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
In leadership development we hear a lot about Emotional Intelligence (or EQ). In his 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence”, Daniel Goleman brought the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) to the mainstream of business theory. The key premise of EQ is it…
Tagged with: awareness, behaviour types, conflict, continuity, emotional intelligence, Emotions, EQ, feelings, harmony, leadership, positive, positive human energy, productive, relationships, stress, successful, thoughts
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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…
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Understanding Your Behaviour
Research in the neurosciences has shown there is a continuous looping and re-looping of energy both positive and negative, between a person’s two dominant human energy fields — the heart and the brain. It is this looping and re-looping of…
Tagged with: behaviour, brain, energy, feelings, heart, human energy, neurosciences, organizational synergy, personality, Personality profiling, personality type, positive energy, positive presence, synergy, thoughts
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Emotional Awareness as a Key Strategy
Without emotional awareness, you cannot relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, you are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact…
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