Connection is a powerful strategy used by enlightened leaders to transform their workplaces and create dynamic and powerful teams. These teams are not only capable of weathering adversity but achieving high levels of performance excellence.
Creating and sustaining positive and energized connections with people, much like developing self-awareness, is a deliberate and willful act. It requires a programmatic, systematic methodology that must be continuously monitored, updated, and checked for quality. It truly is a strategy that must be developed, communicated and embraced by all participants. No one is exempt. No one is above it or below it.
Connection, as a strategy, becomes very personal. It requires a deep understanding of, and change in, behaviour, and it requires self-examination of what you want to accomplish with the connections being forged. Whether you desire less interpersonal conflict, better performance, fewer miscommunications, greater productivity, fewer turf battles, or higher employee engagement, you must learn and apply the specific behaviour skills and mindsets of making highly positive emotional connections. It also must be specific and measurable. At the heart of a ‘connection strategy’ is the acceptance that people come first. An organization cannot become what its people are not. That being said, the mantra of any connection strategy must be ‘People first.”.
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.