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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’…

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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 ‘Why’ of Positive Power

Posted on June 30, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

The findings coming forward from the neuro-sciences have huge implications for business organizations on a global scale. And in fact, these findings call for a gigantic shift in how the modern organization develops its employees, its leaders, and the overall…

Tagged with: ambiguity, awareness, behaviour, brain-power, change, chaos, complexity, energy, mindset, negative energy, neuro-sciences, neuroplasticity, positive, positive mindset, positive presence, stress
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Accountability for Collaborative Success

Posted on May 26, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Accountability must be a visible practice In creating an organization that is built for collaborative success. All team members are clear about their specific responsibilities. They are aware of the organization’s purpose, mission, vision, values, and how they fit into…

Tagged with: accountability, collaboration, employee engagement, fear, mission, negative energy, performance, positive emotional human energy, positive presence, responsibilities, success, transparency, Upper Brain, values, vision
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Negativity – The Greatest Threat to Success

Posted on April 7, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

In the knowledge-based economy it is the first time in human history that a ‘hard day’s work’ is not ‘hard’ in the physical sense, but instead it is the employee’s brain that’s being worked — it is their ‘mind,’ that…

Tagged with: brain-power, efficiency, emotional energy, emotional state, energized, energy, negative energy, positive, positive presence, productivity, success, wellness
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Positive Presence – A Necessary Skill for Today’s Workforce

Posted on February 17, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Positive Presence is your natural ability to adjust for and create a positive and energized mindset within yourself through conscious thought processes. Your skill level for Positive Presence depends on many, many things, but mostly, it is developed through your…

Tagged with: brain research, brain-power, energized mindset, energy, leaders, negative energy, neuroscience, positive, positive presence, self-awareness
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Bad Apples Or Bad Barrels?

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

Maybe you have heard the phrase “that one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil an entire barrel…

Tagged with: behaviour, biofield, collaborative, communication, Competition, conflict, cooperation, disruptive, dysfunctional, morale, motivation, negative energy, positive presence, succeed, teams, toxic individuals, uncooperative, value, workplaces
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Are Your Values a Positive Force?

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Catherine Osborne

Knowing your values is extremely important to acquiring a resilient and energized mindset. A personal value is an individual’s absolute or relative and ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action. A value system is…