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 energy that makes each of us a unique individual. There is also evidence of a correlation between positive energy (positive thoughts and feelings) and our ability to ‘connect’ and work together. Also, just as we ourselves are a looping and re-looping of energy, as we come together with others within an organization (or anywhere else for that matter), our individual energies combine and create a unique synergy of its own.
Synergy is the combination of each individual’s unique energy. Understanding our self and others is essential to ensuring that the individual energy stays ‘positive’. How we choose to act and respond to each other is critical to the creation of organizational synergy. First, it is important that we understand our own personality preferences and how they affect others. Then, it is important to identify what other personality preferences exist in the environment around us. THE GOAL IS to identify one’s own personal behavioural changes that will be necessary to bring out the best in those around us.
We are all different, but we are all the same. We all have similar emotional and physical needs, but we all possess individual differences in basic temperament. ‘Personality’ means a relativity fixed set of feelings, behaviours, and responses – long-term features that comprise a person’s personality ‘make up’ or ‘profile’. And of course each different ‘profile’ will elicit different feelings, behaviours, and responses from other differing ‘profiles’. Personality profiling has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. One of the most popular in the business world today is the Myers & Briggs personality type indicator (MBTI), but there are others as well. More recently, because attempts have been made to understand personality as related to the inner workings of the brain, we can now map and ‘read’ the brain through advanced brain imaging technology, and the field is expanding every day.
There is value to understanding that there are different types of people in the world. At a more physical level, every person has specific behaviour tendencies, and although no two people are alike, these ‘tendencies’ can be grouped and analyzed within four separate quadrants for behaviour profiling. When we understand our own behavioural patterns (or tendencies), and what they actually ‘look’ like, then we can acquire some insight into what impact others will have on us – on our own feelings, thoughts and behaviour. We will also become more tolerant of others by understanding that not everyone is just like us, nor will everyone like or dislike exactly the same things. When we understand ‘who’ we are and the impact other behaviour types have on us, only then will we be able to understand the impact our behaviour has on others, and then learn to adjust our behaviour habits to bring the best out in all those around us.
The more we understand our own and other people’s behaviour, the more capable we are to use our skill of Positive Presence to create a positive outlook.
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.