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Employee Engagement 2025

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Leadership failure rarely is the result of the absence of technical skill and intellect, but incompetence in behavioural skill. You only need to look at the headlines of the most recent business publication to substantiate the credibility of this statement.…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, engagement, influence, leadership, management, organizational performance, performance, positive presence, self-awareness
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Leader Connection Builds Culture

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Just as technology has increased the borders of our markets, it has also increased competition for the best and brightest employees. Employees today seek to work for a company and leaders with whom they feel proud to be associated and…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, Competition, culture, engagement, influence, leaders, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, satisfaction, talents, team, values, workplace culture
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How Do You Influence Others?

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Sometimes you cannot articulate why you like or dislike someone’s behaviour, because often your internal preferences are unconscious. Behaviour preference or style, aka social/communication style, has been around for decades. Basically, everyone falls into one of four styles, frequently set…

Tagged with: agile, behaviour, communication, energized emotions, flexible, habits, influence, Influential leaders, inspire, leadership, motivate, performance, positive, positive connections, positive presence, unconscious
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Connection as a Leadership Strategy

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Connection increases a leader’s influence among followers. This influence spurs followers to do more – improve their behaviour, develop their skills and talents, work better and harder, seek and participate in collaborations or teams, and achieve greater results. In today’s…

Tagged with: collaboration, connection, culture, influence, leadership, performance, positive presence, relationships, Strategy
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A Leader’s Connection

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

One of the most critical components, in fact, perhaps the most critical component of leadership success is the ability to connect with people. You cannot lead without connecting. Connection is an expression of leader compassion, trust, security, and hope. You…

Tagged with: collaboration, connection, culture, influence, leadership, performance, positive presence, relationships, Strategy
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You Are An Influential Leader

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

Whether you are in a formal role of leader or not, you are always an influential leader. Influential leaders understand that how they think and behave affects the way they lead. They must be committed to all kinds of improvement…

Tagged with: change, energy, Improvement, influence, influential leader, leadership, mission, positive presence, purpose, thought, transparency, Trust, values, vision
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Six Questions to Becoming an Influential Leader

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

As leaders we must always be pursuing new avenues that can improve or enhance our overall leadership influence. In today’s global economy, we must continually transform our own leadership effectiveness, the performance of our people, and the overall productivity of…

Tagged with: approachable, behaviour, communicate, effectiveness, influence, influential leader, leadership, listen, performance, positive presence, productivity, Respect
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Are you a Positive Professional Role Model?

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

The fastest way to derail any collaborative efforts in an organization is an individual leader’s negative behaviour. Over time, negative experiences erode a leader’s influence. This is particularly true for leaders who give plenty of lip service to forging effective…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, change, collaboration, collaborative, continuous improvement, culture, Emotional, Emotions, energy, influence, leadership, Negative, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, quality, relationships, self-aware, toxic, wellness, work environment
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Behaviour Change is the Key to Organizational Performance

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

The truth is that the so-called soft skills of behaviour are really the hard skills that create the measure of influence for performance success. Time and again the fundamental problems related to the lack of engagement and work performance enhancement…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, change, courage, culture, dysfunctional, engagement, influence, leadership, negative behaviour, performance, positive presence, productivity, relationships, success, toxic, values, willingness
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Performance Requires Behaviour Skill

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Catherine Osborne

It is worth noting that leadership failure typically is not the result of the absence of technical skill, but in fact, incompetence in behavioural skill. You will likely gain higher levels of management responsibility based on your technical skill performance,…

Tagged with: behaviour, collaboration, connection, consistent, employees, engagement, feedback, followers, influence, leadership, organizational, performance, positive behaviour, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness, self-evaluation, soft skills, success
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