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5 Questions to Becoming An Emotionally Aware Leader

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Catherine Osborne

Emotionally aware leaders understand their own (and, by extension, their employees) emotional triggers. Emotional triggers are people, events, conditions, or experiences that arouse intense negative reactions. Incompetence, micromanagement, constantly missing or incomplete information, arrogant and superior attitude, lack of communication,…

Tagged with: Emotional, health, leaders, mental models, neurosciences, patterns, performance, positive presence, reactions, relationships, triggers
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Behaviour Accountability

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

This is the most challenging aspect of the coaching and counseling process: To adequately acknowledge the need to change behaviour, a person must be compelled to search for, examine and question those unconscious assumptions they have buried deep in the…

Tagged with: accountability, attitudes, behaviour, Choice, coaching, counseling, dissonance, effective, experiences, high performers, internal change, internal drivers, mindset, morale, patterns, positive, positive presence, productive, unconscious assumptions
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Connection — Making the Choice to Change

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

As often mentioned, change – whether personal or organizational – is not easy. Even when presented with clear reasons and validated in research, for behaviour change it is still a distant goal for many leaders. It is not a decision…

Tagged with: behaviour, change, Choice, commitment, connection, followers, influence, judgment, leaders, patterns, reputation, toxic, transformation
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The New ‘Lean’ Is All About Behaviour!

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Catherine Osborne

After the Second World War, the Japanese economy was in ruins. The American economy on the other hand was booming. As a result, a number of leading quality management gurus (Deming and Juran) travelled to Japan to share their teachings.…

Tagged with: behavior, behaviour, change, coherent, disruptive, employees, energy, environment, feelings, Flexibility, habits, improvement strategy, knowledge-based, Negative, patterns, positive, positive presence, productive, smoothness, synergy, thoughts, toxic, value
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