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I’ll lead off with an idea split into two, see which one sticks with you. (See @Gary Vaynerchuk)
1. Bad news sells. Like rubbernecks at a fender bender, we turn our attention to the drama of others, or in the world of work perhaps we want to understand just what latest work culture phenomenon is happening to us.
Read MoreAs someone who works in the area of learning and teaching, I have long been interested in how learning and productivity take place. Here’s a scenario for you to consider - Have you ever had the experience of being so drawn into distractions like trying to solve the daily Wordle or engrossed in a debate with a colleague
Read MoreI recently hosted a workshop for an organization that was reviewing their business’ values to build the foundation that they could then layer working agreements on to. As the work progressed over a number of weeks it became clear that there was a step missing between identifying the values and creating the working agreements--
Read MoreI recently read a report done in collaboration between Deloitte Canada and Auticon. This report highlights a number of barriers individuals on the autism spectrum face when it comes to obtaining and retaining employment. The study showed that 33 per cent of adults on the spectrum…
Read MoreI have always been someone who had a difficult time answering that age old question- “What do you want to be when you grow up?.” It seemed I had broad strokes of an idea, but the details were always a little fuzzy.
Read MoreOne of life’s little tricks is to suck you in to the belief that what has been successful in the past will prove successful in the future. Yeah…. maybe. The irony, when it comes to leadership is that as responsibility and authority increase, the skills that served you in the past will no longer be sufficient…
Read MoreLast week I was interviewing for a graduate research assistant to help me with some research projects. One of the candidates really stood out to me, right from their resume. Clearly, a well accomplished individual with a BCom and an MBA with years of excellent work experience who had now decided to attend university in Canada and work on a graduate degree in Education.
Read MoreThis week I had a client who was struggling with a difference of opinion between them and their boss. They knew they were ready for a promotion, but their boss wanted them to make a lateral move. They were feeling disempowered and stuck.
Read MoreI was not one of those people who got uber fit during the pandemic. No, I was in the camp of hustlers who were busy transitioning their business to an online model, finishing my masters and supporting my coaching clients. The consequence for me was a lot of extra sitting for two years and arriving firmly into my mid-50’s—
Read MoreYears ago, while I was at business school, I managed to correspond with Fast Company magazine and organized for two of their staff writers/editors to come and engage in a Q&A with my cohort of fellow learners in Victoria, BC. Well, most learners.
Read MoreAfter two years of mandated distance, we are now able to think and plan to bring our teams back together for in-person gatherings, meetings and maybe a team retreat. I have been building the team here at IRG for the past 18 months, and many of the team members had never met in person before,
Read MoreI have worked in higher education for over 20 years. One positive change I have noticed is much more collaboration between disciplines. It is exciting to see teams that bring together sciences with humanities or law with theatre.
Read MoreStretch your body, connect to your intuition, and ground your mind. If you had all the resources you needed, what would you take action on?
Recently I had the opportunity to do just this.
Read MoreThis was the hard truth I shared with a coaching client last week – “it’s not about you”. Of course, I presented it in a coach-like fashion of sharing an observation that she was putting a lot of pressure on herself to come up with the perfect plan for her team while making all of the decisions before September 1st.
Read MoreToday’s title is a simple meditative prompt taken from Richard Wagamese’s book Embers. It is the latest in a number of reminders for me to sit into and be okay with silence. By being silent we can take in the environment around us, pay attention to others, to ourselves, to our breathing.
Read MoreI am wondering if you, like me, had a moment reflecting on what I aspired to earlier this year and where I am now. When I glanced at my list, I started to check off the things I had accomplished. However, before I started to pat myself on the back, the list of what I haven’t done was fairly long and took hold of my attention.
Read MoreI think like most people I am on a bit of a daily treadmill, with repeated patterns and rituals and the problem with that is that I can get into a bit of rut, a well-worn path of thoughts, feelings and behavior that is comfortable, but perhaps does not keep me focused on a goal of improvement and growth. How about you?
Read MoreComing out of two years of COVID and the great resignation, top of mind for many leaders and organizations lately is how to attract and retain talent. One way to get the attention of talent and keep the talent you have is to foster environments that are welcoming of diversity and are inclusive of all ways of being.
Read MoreI have said, more than a few times since the start of this year, “the arrival of 2022 felt like stepping onto a moving sidewalk”. Everything that had been on pause during the last two years of a pandemic world was suddenly available again and everything was moving quickly.
Read MoreAmy Edmondson describes psychological safety as “a climate where people feel safe enough to take personal risks by speaking up and sharing concerns, questions or ideas.”
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