Take Time to Think
“Summertime and the living is easy” George Gershwin/DeBose Heyward Once again the summer has slowly arrived to the true north strong and free. To reward [...]
Early To Rise
Bachman Turner Overdrive had a very substantial hit record in the 1970s titled "Taking Care of Business". The opening line to that song, ‘You get [...]
Conducting a Meeting
As a people manager, you are responsible for far too many things to be great at them all. This is perhaps why there are thousands [...]
Overwhelmed
It is very interesting when you ask employees how they are feeling in their jobs in the world of doing more with less, one word [...]
Embracing technology… but not too much
The onslaught of multiple technical communication options in the work place has forced companies to set guidelines to help employees reset communicating expectations. How did [...]
Relax. Reflect. Revisit.
The holiday season has arrived and highly productive people are being asked to take a well-deserved break. The notion of not traveling to your workplace [...]
We Must Get Together…
As the 2014 leans into its last month of operation, "finishing strong" was the anthem of my sales days, as every account in December promised [...]
Scary Premise: It’s a Training Problem
I have had the privilege of running training departments in large multi-national organizations, where I had the responsibility of delivering training strategies that mirror company [...]
So you are now a people manager…
In organizations, people manager is a privileged position that many aspire to, and few are prepared to excel at, not because they are not competent, [...]
Manager Proof Your Office
The memory of a brutal 2014 Canadian winter is beginning to thaw in our minds. We put snow shovels in the garage, misplace our car [...]