Coaching
October 4, 2019
What benefits are you missing when you make decisions completely on your own? It can be natural to want to make decisions in isolation. It might feel faster, easier, and more effective; but have you considered the results you could achieve if you i...
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October 1, 2019
A colleague once asked if I considered myself a creative person. My immediate response: “Absolutely not!” I thought about the wildly imaginative individuals in my workplace, many of whom annoyed me with their half-baked ideas, and concluded that ...
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September 3, 2019
A key part of a leader’s job is to develop the leadership talent that exists within the people working in the organization. As Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook describes it, “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence a...
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August 2, 2019
One of the reasons big Canadian cities are such fun to live and work in is that they are filled with people of different languages, ethnicities, beliefs and perspectives; a vast variety of personalities that contribute to a vibrant cult...
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July 8, 2019
Want to make more money? Help more people? Make better use of your time? While it seems like a tall order, we have some ideas that will help you make that happen and it costs nothing to put these ideas to work.
1. Imagine I own a vineyard and I in...
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July 1, 2019
My 7-year-old grandson was playing Scribblenauts, a video game that creates a picture of the object you have correctly spelled. He was having trouble with a specific word; using an “O” instead of an “A” because, as he described, “sometimes ...
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April 2, 2019
Most of us have sat in the garden on a sunny day and watched bees flit from one flower to the next. The pattern, which may appear to be random, is actually very focused. Bees determine which flower to visit based on the colour of the petals, fragranc...
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March 1, 2019
Peter Drucker, the famed business consultant, coined the phrase “knowledge worker”[1] in 1959. He contended that highly educated workers would not be content or motivated simply by following orders or instructions. Drucker’s teaching still reso...
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February 12, 2019
One of the fun things about business and sales is that nobody has cornered 100% of the market. Our traditional competitors are those who offer some variation of what our business already does. However, even if a competitor is better, faster or cheape...
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February 1, 2019
Your customers have specific needs when they do business with you. Meet those needs and you will have happy customers; fail to meet those needs and the reverse will be true.
It is the same with those who work in the organization. When their needs ...
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