2 Things Great Leaders Do To Manage Priority Overload
One of the greatest frustrations among overworked people (and we all seem to be overworked these days) is having too many priorities. New priorities fire [...]
Things Not Better Left Unsaid: The Importance of Employee Feedback
It is sometimes said that employees don’t leave the company they work for; they leave the managers they report to. Not surprisingly, manager behaviour is [...]
10 Communication Principles Effective Leaders Embrace
Strong leaders know effective communication fuels their success. It is single-handedly the most critical way to engage people to achieve outstanding results. Despite its power, [...]
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 [...]
Unconventional Ways to Boost Productivity
In my home town, just north of Toronto, the hot sunny days are finally here. Life definitely changes as we shed our winter layers and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Only Best Practice to Leadership is Understanding That There Isn’t One…
There are probably 3 teachers that stick out in my memories as 'great teachers'. They weren't just adored by me, but by many a student [...]