Enormous advances over the last decade in neuro-imaging technology have awakened us to the benefits of positive energy – for an increased capacity for achieving peak performance, for building and maintaining good relationships, and for experiencing good health. The bottom line is – for all of these things we need a positive mindset.
But why, you may be asking, is it so important now and not so much in the past? What is it about today’s work-world that makes it so much more important now than ever before in business history?
The reason is, we have left the days of the industrial and technological revolutions behind us – where productivity and efficiency was almost totally dependent on process efficiencies of getting the job done. In today’s knowledge-based society, organizations are more and more made up primarily of knowledge workers (those whose jobs require formal and/or advanced education and are considered people who “think for a living.”), bringing their individual specialisms together for a common purpose.
According to Peter Drucker, whose ground-breaking work turned modern management theory into a discipline, the best example of a predominant knowledge workforce was that of the modern day hospital in all developed countries of the world. In these organizations characterized by extreme levels of complexity, ambiguity and constant change, success is often made even more challenging by public sector bureaucracy, as well as fiscal and demographic pressures.
So what corporate organization today is not characterized by extreme levels of complexity, ambiguity and constant change? Furthermore, one in four of all jobs are in the public sector, fraught with bureaucratic pressures as well as fiscal and demographic issues.
There has never been a time in history where one’s ability to produce and maintain a positive mindset in the workplace was so critical – not only for performance metrics, but also for emotional, mental and physical wellness. Wellness programs are necessity, but the majority of them are forcing ‘good feels’ from the outside, when in fact one’s ability for the positive comes from within. It is your ability for the skill of Positive Presence that enables you to maintain a positive mindset in spite of the negative effects of complexity, ambiguity and constant 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.