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Defending Against the Toxic Person

Posted on October 6, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

In conjunction with your own self-awareness, comes the need to bring your awareness to the environment around you. Today’s work environment wrought with lightening-fast change, complexity and never-ending demands, is a natural playing field for negative energy. To start, make…

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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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The Science of Success

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

In the last couple of decades, a new field of neuroscience has mapped the mental zone that can literally change the brain to quiet an overly active stress response system and simultaneously pave the way for higher brain networks to…

Tagged with: brain speed, emotional intelligence, emotional wellbeing, higher brain networks, homeostasis, mental state, mental zone, mindset, neuroscience, physical wellbeing, positive presence, relationships, social intelligence, stress, stress management, stress response, success
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How Knowledgeable Are You?

Posted on August 4, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

To quote from Peter Drucker in his book “Managing in the Next Society” (page 124), “… A knowledge based workforce is qualitatively different … survival, of every business will depend on the performance of its knowledge workforce – and the…

Tagged with: adapt, ambiguity, change, collaborate, complexity, connectedness, Digital Era, energized mindset, energy flow, Era of AI, global workforce, health, innovate, knowledge workers, Knowledgeable, peak performance, performance, positive mindset, positive presence, productivity, relationships
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Why a Positive Mindset?

Posted on July 28, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

Enormous advances over the last decade in neuro-imaging technology have awakened us to the benefits of positive energy – for an increased capacity for achieving peak performance, for building and maintaining good relationships, and for experiencing good health. The bottom…

Tagged with: ambiguity, bureaucracy, change, complexity, emotional wellness, knowledge workers, mental wellness, Negative, performance, physical wellness, positive energy, positive mindset, positive presence, purpose, relationships
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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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Why Stress is Harmful

Posted on May 19, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

In today’s fast paced and ever changing business climate, the most dangerous thing about stress is how easily it can creep up on you. You get used to it. It starts to feel familiar, even normal. You don’t notice how…

Tagged with: adrenaline, Chronic stress, cortisol, emotional intelligence, emotional wellness, higher brain, performance, positive presence, relationships, stress hormones, stress overload, teamwork, toxic hormones, turnover
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The Neuroscience Revolution

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Catherine Osborne

In December of 2018 my good friend and mentor, Dr. Michael Frisina, was published in the International Journal of Academic Medicine | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | September-December 2018. http://www.journalonweb.com/ijam As the Canadian Representative and Coach Certified of The…

Tagged with: behavior, health, neuroscience, performance, positive behaviors, positive presence, productive behaviors, relationships, thinking patterns
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Communication is NOT Overrated

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

Technology mogul Elon Musk once tweeted out that “people are overrated.” While he would later explain that he was referring to the power of robotics and the emerging technology in both robotics and artificial intelligence, one wonders how destructive that…

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What’s Your Leadership Style

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Catherine Osborne

There are essentially four behaviour preferences or styles: (1) executing (driver), (2) influencing (persuader), (3) strategic thinking (analyzer), and (4) relationship building, (stabilizer). Having awareness of your dominant behaviour pattern or style as well as others’ behaviour styles is essential…

Tagged with: behaviour, behaviour preferences, collaboration, connection, emotional energy, leadership, neuroscience, performance, positive presence, relationships, workplace behaviour
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