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Leadership Development

Your Vision & How to Find It

This week’s video blog post speaks to Vision. As a leader what is your vision for your organization? Do you share that vision with your team? Kouzes & Posner describe vision as “An ideal and unique image of the future for the common good” (the Leadership Challenge, 2017) with the…

Do you know what your core values are?

Kouzes and Posner define values as “moral judgements, responses to others, and commitments to personal and organizational goals that: Help us determine what to do and what not to do. Influence every aspect of our lives. Set the parameters for our decisions we make every day”. We can commit and…

Birds Flock Together – Social Styles, Putting It All Together….

Birds Flock Together – Social Styles, Putting It All Together…. this is the final of 5 videos where I talk about Tracom’s Social Style model. A simple yet every effective way to understand, not only how you prefer to communicate and behave, but also how to recognize how others prefer…

Eagles – The Driving Force (Style) of Behaviour

Eagles – The Driving Force (Style) of Behaviour – this is the fourth in a series of 5 posts that explore the four behaviour/communications styles in Tracom’s Social Style Model. _____________________________________________________________________________________   John Whitehead coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional…

Why The Owl – Making decisions

Why The Owl – Making decisions. The Analytical style in Tracom’s Social Style behaviour and communications model is often seen to be indecisive. This is seems to be counter to the idea of someone who is driven by information and data. But there lies the problem – they feel they…