Hiring People With the Right Abilities (Seeing Past ‘Disability’) A while ago, I attended an interesting seminar on the benefits of hiring “disabled” workers. I had a particular curiosity in what [...]
Emoticons or Begone? (Business Writing Tip for Thought) Emoticons in Business Communication? or WhatsApp, Texting, Messenger and many other tools are replacing Email, phone and face-to-face conversations in personal communication. This [...]
Running Hard? Stop and Smell the Roses: Time Management and Sanity Strategies More and more often these days I keep running up against a theme of “too busy”. People all [...]
How to Navigate Key Pitfalls of Coaching Employees Are you a manager attempting to coach your employees and feeling like (more than) some of them are just not ideal coaching [...]
How to Get the Most from Your Skills Training Initiatives You may have seen statistics such as “only 15% of what people learn in training is retained”. To make matters [...]
The Power of Values in Leadership Making the important link between values and behaviours Values lead to thoughts, actions, behaviours and results. This is why organizations spend so much time [...]
Making Good Decisions When it Matters Subconscious cognitive biases can derail decision-making Psychologists and behavioural economists have identified cognitive biases that often undermine effective decision-making. For example: Group Think – [...]
Understanding Resistance: Emotional Intelligence at Work To Resist is Human. Learning How to Move Beyond is Leadership. I was recently surprised by my own resistance, as a student no less. [...]
Vertical Leadership Development: the Value of Knowing Your Values Do you work on developing yourself before you have to? Over the years, I have come to believe that most of [...]
Union Versus Management -- Win or Lose? A common mentality is that the relationship between Union and Management is like a rivalry at the final playoff hockey game between two [...]