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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...
Beyond 10,000 Hours.
You’ve likely heard of the 10,000 hours concept popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. The research relating to this discovery was actually done by Anders Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University. His research revealed another...
The Antidote to Worrying.
For many of us worry, anxiety, and fear stand in the way of being effective, achieving balance and allowing our strengths and talents to come to the surface. Worry and anxiety are all part of the human condition. On one hand they reveal things that require our...
Growth Through Learning
Everything I know now is because someone taught me. This may seem like a statement of the obvious but think about this for a moment. Everything that you know today, everything that you do, the habits you've acquired, your ability to do things well, was likely taught...
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