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The Future Belongs to Resilient Leaders
In times of crisis and change, resilience is what separates great leaders from the rest. By strengthening your own adaptability and empowering your team to embrace uncertainty, you’ll position yourself—and your organization—for long-term success. Here are some...
Who Are You Letting In? Asking for Help Isn’t Weakness—It’s Leadership
As leaders, two of the most powerful phrases we can state are: "I don't know" and "I need help." In a world that glorifies self-sufficiency, many leaders and high performers feel the weight of unrealistic expectations—the belief that they must have all the answers,...
Leadership and Empowering Employee Growth: Focusing on the Doers, Not the Watchers
In the world of leadership, progress often hinges on the actions of a few rather than the inactions of the many. If you’ve ever noticed the disconnect between enthusiasm and results, or motivation and outcomes, you know exactly what I mean. How many times have you...
The Leadership Edge: How Knowing Your “Why” Transforms Your Impact
While on a recent vacation, I reread Simon Sinek’s book, Start With Why. I found the review very useful and beneficial as it caused me to reflect on my personal and professional "why." I then considered if they are aligned and how I apply them to lead, serve,...
Maximizing the Impact of Your Core Values
Those who know me well—or have worked with me—understand that I am passionate about the role core values play in an organization. Whether your company is for-profit or nonprofit, core values are the foundation that shapes culture, decision-making, and long-term...
Future-Proofing Leadership: 5 Key Strategies for Employee Growth in 2025
Mentoring, teaching, and coaching are invaluable tools in nurturing strong leadership within organizations. Too often, external coaches are sought because existing managers lack the necessary skills. This gap often arises from a lack of structured management training,...
Change your thoughts and you can change the outcome.
As a follow-up to my recent blog post: You become what you think about, I wanted to expand on this topic a little further. Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions. What are you thinking about and focusing on? Negative thinking, excessive worrying and being anxious...
You become what you think about.
The same way that a cut of meat takes on the flavour of what it’s marinated in, your mind absorbs the “flavours” – attitudes, opinions, and viewpoints you focus on. These will become your view and likely become your behaviours and actions. There’s nothing...
Don’t let “work arounds” become the norm. Workarounds can create more problems than they solve.
This blog is inspired by a recent conversation with a client. During a coaching session, we were talking about the challenge she faced when trying to fix a problem in her department by avoiding a workaround or hack. Doing it right might be more difficult and...
Act Your Way to Success
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~ Pablo Picasso Some people will not act until everything is lined-up, all the pieces are in place, and they’re in the “zone”. Typically, these are excuses and self–justification for...
The Impact of Toxic Leaders
You may work for a leader who states their goal is to create a positive work environment and build a winning team. In reality they may lack the knowledge, skills, and emotional intelligence of achieving the goal and actually create a toxic work environment. The impact...
Taking Risk Personally
It is essential that you consider and apply strategic and analytical models to evaluate risk. However, don't forget, at the end of the day, you're dealing with people. As much as the quantitative metrics drive the thinking of senior management relating to what they...
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