There are essentially four behaviour preferences or styles: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). Having awareness of your dominant behaviour pattern or style as well as others’ behaviour styles is essential in leading your team members to higher levels of performance under times of stress, change, fatigue, increased complexity, and chaos. Our behaviour styles are strengths that connect us to who we are, what we believe, and how we choose to behave.
In a sense, you can consider your behaviour style as your own personal log-on, password, and internal operating system ‘IOS’ similar to your computer. Your ‘internal operating system (IOS)’ is fundamentally responsible for your behaviour. Your behaviour is fundamentally responsible for your own level of performance achievement and for the level of performance achievement of your team. Influential leaders discover their IOS or individual behaviour strengths, and then use them when they are seeking optimal outcome in relationships and performance.
A strong high-performance team capable of collaboration and deep connection requires a team composed of people who have strengths in all four behaviour styles. In this blend and balance of strengths, or by creating teams that manifest behaviour from all four “internal operating systems” (task focused or relational focused, and assertive versus responsive) you will be able to propel those around you and your organization to a higher level of performance.
A key ingredient for the optimal blend and balance of strengths is the skill of Positive Presence and the Positive Presence Behavioural Competencies — a new and deliberate way of thinking and behaving that makes the connection between emotional energy and workplace behaviour, and creates the collaboration and connection needed to reach performance excellence. It is an affordable, time-efficient and neuroscience-based methodology for people development and culture change.
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.