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Understanding Your Behaviour

Posted on October 27, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

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…

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What is Synergy?

Posted on October 20, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Research in the neurosciences has shown there is a continuous looping and re-looping of energy both positive and negative, between your two dominant human energy fields — the heart and the brain. It is this looping and re-looping of energy…

Tagged with: behaviour, behavioural changes, brain, energy, feelings, heart, human energy, neurosciences, organizational synergy, personality, positive energy, positive outlook, positive presence, synergy, thoughts
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Brain Power with Positive Presence

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Our brain is an extremely powerful machine to which we hold the controls. Having ‘control’ requires a keen self-awareness into our emotional energy and our behaviour and thought habits. It takes anywhere from 14 days to 8 weeks to ‘re-wire’…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour habits, brain, consciousness, efficiency, emotional state, energy, feelings, habits, higher-level brain, negative energy, neuroplasticity, positive emotions, positive presence, productivity, relationships, thinking, thoughts, wellness
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Coach or Cut Free?

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

The sad fact about chronically disruptive people is that they are rarely coachable or teachable. Human behaviour research shows us that functional environments will become dysfunctional as a result of disruptive employees. Rarely if ever does the opposite occur. This…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, brain, change, coachable, coaching, collaboration, culture, disruptive, emotional energy, leaders, negative energy, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, self-management, teachable, team
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The Science of Bad Behaviour

Posted on June 23, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

A key focus of research on human performance seeks to understand the complexity and function of the human brain and its impact on performance in relationship to how people respond to leadership and colleague behaviour. Research highlights why you must…

Tagged with: awareness, behaviour, brain, distrust, experiential emotional memory EEM, feelings, leadership, negative behaviour, neurochemical, performance, positive, positive behaviour, positive presence, production, recall, relationships, thoughts, Trust
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Are You Unforgettable?

Posted on June 16, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

You have probably heard the saying, “A truly great leader is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.” The same adage holds for bad leaders too, at least the “impossible to forget” part — this also…

Tagged with: behaviour, brain, employee engagement, hippocampus, leader, memories, neuroscience, pattern recognition system, performance, positive presence, recall, team
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How is Your Focus?

Posted on June 9, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Focus is a fundamental requirement in today’s workplace. In the knowledge workforce focus is necessary for productivity and efficiency; It’s necessary for quality and for safety; It’s necessary for self-awareness; And it’s also necessary for the practices of mindfulness and…

Tagged with: brain, efficiency, emotional energy, focus, harmony, meditation, mindfulness, positive presence, productivity, quality, re-wire, safety, self-awareness
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Achieving Performance Excellence

Posted on March 24, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Research and personal experiences are telling us that the phenomenon of ‘re-wiring’ through the neuro-plasticity of your brain is easier than it may sound. In fact anyone with a keen self-awareness and some really good coaching can, through their conscious…

Tagged with: behaviour, brain, brain-power, change, coaching, complexity, efficiency, energized, energy, mindset, neuro-plasticity, positive emotional energy, positive presence, productivity, self-awareness, thought habits
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Why Workplace Behaviour Is a Big Deal

Posted on March 17, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

No workplace is without a ’Negative Nellie’. You all either work with, or have worked with, that guy (or girl) that’s always complaining or trying to sabotage a good days work – or just plain toxic both in speech and/or…

Tagged with: behaviour, brain, cognitive functioning, collaborative, negativity, negativity bias, neuro-imaging technology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, positive presence, positive thought habits, toxic
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Your Positive Flow

Posted on March 10, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

The skill of Positive Presence is your natural ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset within yourself through conscious thought processes. Your proficiency for Positive Presence is different for each of us …. greatly dependent on…

Tagged with: brain, energized mindset, energy, energy flow, feelings, neurosciences, positive energy, positive presence, self-awareness, thoughts
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