There is a knowledge gap among leaders who lack a deep understanding of the critical role they play between themselves and the behaviour strengths of their employees. People connect and engage with their leader before they connect and engage with their work. The research is clear on this point: the more positive and supportive this relationship, the more engaged and committed people are in their work.
Gone are the days when a paycheck, the employee of the month award, and the gold watch at retirement were sufficient motivators for people to perform at their best or to remain loyal and dedicated to the organization. In today’s economy, organizations that compete both locally and in the global economy, can ill afford the root cause of leadership failure present in most organizations – the failure to positively connect with the people doing the work of the organization.
Leader behaviour creates leader image. This connection between behaviour skills and peak performance is critical to your success. Leaders are operators. You make things happen in the organization. Even the widely accepted ‘Six Dimensions of Performance’ have been proven to be higher in people who have a positive mental image of their boss, rather than those with a less positive and even toxic image of their leader.
What is needed today is the ‘Catalyst’ type leader — an influential leader — that can drive performance change and performance excellence. Your challenge and opportunity is to create and implement a systematic and programmatic architecture for leadership development and performance management within your organization that promotes behaviour capacity of leaders as the strategic leverage to maximizing the technical skill capacity of the people doing the work of the organization.
The lynchpin to all of this is individual leadership behaviour – and individual leadership behaviour is, in essence, the physical manifestation of one’s human energy. The skill of Positive Presence is an often-dormant human capacity for adjusting to and creating all things positive. With shared language and knowledge, it is easily implemented throughout an organization – helping all employees (at all levels) make the behaviour/performance connection.
Catherine is the President and CEO of CORPORATE HARMONY, providing virtual solutions for leadership development and organizational culture change. Her leadership and coaching experience as a Project Manager in an ever-changing, fast moving technological organization with unrelenting demands drove her to the realization that a positive mindset and strength-building behaviors are essential for today’s complex and chaotic organizational systems. CORPORATE HARMONY’s virtual platform of programs, coaching and performance measurement, is an innovative online technology of tested proprietary content. The world-class content of CORPORATE HARMONY’s Positive Presence Program develops the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and the necessary ‘Positive Presence Behaviour Competencies’ for maintaining a positive and energized mindset and increased performance in today’s complex work environment, and leading to a culture of collaboration and connection. Catherine’s vision for Corporate Harmony is to bring the skill of “Positive Presence” to the corporate world as it becomes more complex, ambiguous and chaotic. Catherine is uniquely positioned to impact organizations’ productivity and long term success, with her powerful vision of eliminating bad stress from every workplace around the globe, bringing purpose into the people equation to promote healthy, productive and meaningful work cultures and turn the tide on the neglect of mental health on a global scale. Catherine is author of the book: “CORPORATE HARMONY – The Performance Link for Today’s Modern Organization” Catherine can be reached at: Catherine.Osborne@corporateharmony.ca or go to ‘contact us’ on our website www.corporateharmony.ca. Catherine is available for consultation, and can be reached by 519-695-3407.