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Collaboration – Culture or Skill?

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

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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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It’s Behaviour that drives a People Culture

Knowing how to create and sustain highly functional teams is a leader’s duty. Team building is the product of understanding human behaviour not technical skill. Leaders must focus on behaviour skill competencies that allow technical skills to blend into a

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Collaboration is the Key!

Research evidence supports collaborative environments and points to improvements in organizational climate, better understanding of organizational goals and expectations, greater individual and leader accountability, lower turnover, and higher retention of leader candidates. There is a caveat, however, in that while

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Adaptability – Resiliency to Respond to Changing Events

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

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Alertness – Emotional Sensitivity to Others

There are three behaviour-based concepts that must be adopted and learned in order to successfully transform a culture to one of connection: attentiveness (focus on others), alertness (emotional sensitivity to others), and adaptability (resiliency to respond to changing events). There

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Transforming Connection – Paying Attention

If you’ve been paying any attention to the new movement in leadership development, you know that in order to lead today’s ‘knowledge’ workers you must know how to connect on a human level. Human behaviour begins the connection. Your personal

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How Positive (Or Not) Are You?

Over time, negative experiences erode the leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective relations but whose behaviour does very little to advance that cause. These leaders ignore or do not

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Deep Emotional Connection – Is It Needed?

“If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” –Gilbert Amelio, former CEO of Apple. Methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People

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The Emotional Bank – How Wealthy Are You?

Self-examination reveals many things, including your level of sincerity, which is a trait all enlightened leaders share. Sincerity is synonymous with genuineness, honesty, and authenticity. In his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey presented the

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