So often we hear in leadership education that we are to “lead by example.” Too often this translates to leaders that if I want my employees to work as hard as I do, than that means I have to demonstrate…
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Communicating For Performance Excellence
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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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Is Employee Satisfaction Enough?
While employee satisfaction is still a goal for many organizations, it is no longer sufficient to achieve and sustain high levels of performance in today’s economically strained environment. Just as technology has increased the borders of our markets, it has…
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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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Focus on Behaviour, Not Technical Skill
When you think about leadership attributes, is your list heavy on technical elements but light on behaviour and relationship skills.? It is a fact, that behaviour and relationship skills bring out the technical competencies and enable the job to be…
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The 4 Domains of Leadership Strength
Have you ever wondered why you choose to behave a certain way? Have you ever wondered why other people’s behaviour rubs you the wrong way? A core belief of an Influential Leader is that the people they lead want to…
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This New Year: Commit to Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies
We live in a time of great excitement as we watch the world we grew up in literally changing before your eyes. This is the first time in the history of man that we are able to watch the evolution…
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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…
Tagged with: accountability, attitudes, behaviour, change, collaborative performance, culture, habits, leaders, mindset, performance excellence, positive presence, relationships, Respect, responsibility, teams, value
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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.…
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Bad Apples Or Bad Barrels?
Maybe you have heard the phrase “that one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil an entire barrel…
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