People
September 13, 2019
Employee engagement surveys are useful tools to measure the health of an organization. They gather candid, unfiltered feedback from the people who work hard to deliver the organization’s strategic priorities to its stakeholders and customers. One...
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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 26, 2019
Who has the right personality to take over from you? As you plan your succession, it would be wise to give some thought to the type of person who can continue to build what you’ve created. On one level you might want to try to clone yourself. After...
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August 16, 2019
Diverse leadership styles at the table is a valuable approach when you are developing your organizational strategy.
There are risks: conflicts can arise due to personality styles; if one style dominates it may affect the successful completion of t...
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August 13, 2019
Chameleon: Any of a family of chiefly arboreal Old-World lizards with a prehensile tail, independently movable eyeballs, and unusual ability to change the color of the skin. ~ Merriam-Webster
An amazing reptile, however, in popular parlance ch...
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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 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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June 24, 2019
In the British monarchy, the eldest son of the current ruler has always been the legitimate successor to the crown. If there were no sons, then the eldest daughter stepped up – hence the great queens Victoria, Elizabeth I and II. This system has be...
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June 17, 2019
It is important to build diversity into your strategy and there are great examples of both success and failures when companies attempt to do this. We’ll focus on four types of diversity: gender, ethnicity, disabilities, and age to understand how ea...
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June 11, 2019
Diversity presents amazing opportunities and we need to be aware of how it can influence selling in today’s markets. There are many aspects to diversity, and in this article we will look at four: gender, age, culture and language. As we review each...
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