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Say No to the Status Quo

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Influential leaders almost always are highly dissatisfied with ‘status quo’. They are unwilling to allow preventable pain and suffering to continue needlessly. They are unwilling to waste precious resources and to settle for second-rate productivity and financial performance. Volition enables…

Tagged with: behaviours, beliefs, benefits, change, clinical psychology, feelings, Influential leaders, intangible, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, tangible, thinking, thought model, urgency imperative, volition
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Making the People Connection

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

The greatest of all leaders understand that methods, tools, technologies, protocols, and systems do not achieve results. People do. Therefore, it is people not processes, with whom organizational leaders must form a long-lasting, positive, emotional connection. This connection is actually…

Tagged with: accountability, behaviour, brain, collaboration, emotional connection, engage, habits, needs, neurochemical performance, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, self-awareness, success, Trust
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4 Steps to Organizational Performance

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

The corporate world is full of courses, seminars and workshops purporting to improve employee skills, increase productivity, boost morale, and enhance employee retention, and ultimately to increase organizational performance. It is the hope that the investment of time and money…

Tagged with: behaviour, brain, change, coaching, Confirmation bias, connections, leader, mental model, neuronal pathways, neuroscience, performance, productivity, thought habits
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Why Leaders Fail to Get Results

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

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…

Tagged with: accountability, assumptions, behaviour, brain, connections, habits, leaders, mindset, neuroscience, organizational objectives, performance, positive presence, results, self-aware, self-management, team
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Effective, Functional, Professional Relationships-The Secret

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. It is actually these relationships that make you human and without…

Tagged with: continuous feedback, culture, functional relationships, Improvement, mutual respect, neuroscience, organizational values, performance, positive presence, self-awareness, strength-giving
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A New Leadership Awareness

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Today’s knowledge-based organizations require highly educated individuals to bring their specialisms and experience together with others for a common goal of meeting organizational strategy and objectives. Predictably, these organizations are facing unique challenges. Not only do they require a clearly…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, culture, disruptive behaviour, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness
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The Power of Habit

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Changing our behaviour is not something we like to do. We lack the willingness to change even when we have the knowledge and the capability to do so. We lack the willingness to change even when we know doing so…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, culture, disruptive behaviour, habits, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, self-awareness, self-reflection
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The Secret to Behaviour in a Performance Driven Culture

Posted on May 21, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

There is a fundamental truth about organizational performance. The majority of people you know, yourself included, have a legitimate need for highly effective, functional relationships – personal, familial, and professional. It is actually these relationships that make us human and…

Tagged with: accountability, attitudes, behaviour, continuous improvement, culture, feedback, habits, mutual respect, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, responsibility, self-awareness, values
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Thriving in the Chaos

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

When we accept that the nature of today’s work environments is inherently complex, ambiguous, fast-paced, constantly changing and requires a continuous high level of excellence, then we must acknowledge that workplace ‘stress’ is here to stay and our job now…

Tagged with: ambiguous, behaviour, biological, changing, chaos, complex, Excellence, fast-paced, Improvement, methodology, neuroscience, performance, Performance management, positive presence, quality
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The ‘Energy Factor’ of an Energized Workforce

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Catherine Osborne

In the “State of the Global Workplace 2022 Report” by Gallup it was revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic era put a halt to a long period of gradual but general improvement in engagement among the world’s workers. This matters for…

Tagged with: behaviours, brain science, connection, Emotions, energy, engagement, meditation, mindfulness, mindset, negative human energy, neuroscience, performance, positive, positive presence, productivity, profitability, retention, safety, stress, thinking, workforce
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