A fundamental principle, what one might call a natural law, is that people choose to act and behave based on what they believe to be true about how they see the world around them. Neuroscience research substantiates this claim. The human brain functions in a pattern recognition system. Patterning is phenomenally strong and your brain creates a “confirmation bias” to accept outside inferences and influences that match the patterns you have created for how you choose to see the world in which you live. As a result, your brain works very hard to defend your current habits, even toxic and destructive ones.
Behind your thoughts are your assumptions, the source for the way you think and act. You have acquired these assumptions throughout your lifetime, and as you collect them and file them away, you rarely bring them back to the surface level of your consciousness. This is fundamentally why leaders can have little, direct effect on the performance of their team members.
Leaders must be knowledgeable and self-aware enough to know how to influence positive neuronal connections with the brains of their people. It is only when those one-to-one connections are made that organizational accountability systems that include self-awareness, self-management, and behaviour-based expectations of individual performance, can drive achievement of organizational objectives and results.
That being said, before organizational accountability systems will drive results, there is one important skill set that needs to be understood and embraced. It is the skill of Positive Presence, an innovative thought model that sets today’s organizations apart from the rest. The skill of Positive Presence is basically a person’s ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset through conscious thought processes to enable those one-to-one positive neural connections with others.
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.