Confidence in Crisis
There’s likely not a leader whose leadership wasn’t tested in some way in 2020. Everyone, from first-level leaders to executives and CEO’s found their skill and resilience was tested during this challenging year. It was a lesson that caused many leaders to recognize...
Creative Culture Change
Jared is a new hire at Triple E Electric Co. The company hired him because of his creative approach with his application package, and the innovative ideas he brought to his interview. When offered the job, he was told his creativity was one of the assets he brought to...
Leaders are Readers
Plan Your Spring Reads I work with the President of a fast-growing, progressive company who is committed to reading one book a week. That's 52 books in a year - she's currently ahead of her goal and is one of the smartest, most compassionate, forward-thinking...
2021: What Employment Trends Should You be Thinking About?
2020 forced us to shift our perspective and rethink our workspaces and companies. For example, instead of the upward trend that we have seen in the past few years of going global and connecting on an international level, we recognized the need to support local...
Christmas Newsletter
We typically send out a different type of newsletter at Christmas time, focusing on business in the year ahead. But this year I felt compelled to share some recent, more personal experiences, in the hopes that they might resonate with some of you - my clients and...
Productivity While Working From Home
How we as Canadians, and indeed, citizens of the world, have experienced COVID-19 are vastly different, intertwined, and connected. We are all dealing with loss on a large scale: loss of income, loss of livelihood, loss of loved ones, loss of normalcy. We have all...
A Change of Leadership (in Mind)
There was a time when leaders were revered and respected for being sharp and competitive, even ruthless, in the pursuit of their organizational goals. As long as they delivered results, accountability was not necessary, and many a company ran into trouble because of...
Top 4 Leadership Skills to Positively Impact Your HR
Joe just got notice for the third time in less than a month that another employee was quitting. He felt frustrated that he’d be hiring again. Later, he had to have a performance conversation with Sally, who was lagging in meeting her sales quotas. Yesterday, Joan and...
6 Strategies for Driving Employee Engagement with Technology
Employee engagement continues to be a priority for employers. A 2015 Gallup survey found that only 30% of employees say they are engaged in their job. More than 50% say they are moderately engaged and 20% are actively disengaged. In years past, employee engagement was...