Disrupt the Workplace Sandbox

round sandbox

We can disrupt the idea that the sandbox has four corners because co-creating a happy culture is an inside job. This means thinking inside the sandbox. Let me show you what I mean in this 5 minute video that I call the Round Sandbox.  This model took shape one day while working with an Indigenous group.  I handed their […]

How A Blocked Chakra Creates Conflict

Tamara Arnold

For years I’ve taught the concept that conflict resolution is an inside job.  A few months ago, I met Tamara Arnold, an Author who helps people understand how blockages in our chakras (energy centers within the body) affect what happens in our lives and business.    I invited Tamara to share some information with you […]

Grateful for Good People

the world is full of good people

You’d think a 2-hour layover between flights is safe, and it is, unless your first flight is delayed.  Yesterday I found myself with a very tight connection, because of a delay out of North Bay.  I landed in Toronto with only 25 minutes to move a long distance between gates, clear security and customs. Two […]

Cherry Pick Your Best Plan

cherry pick your best plan

Are you frustrated with the status quo? Are you settling for the way things are but feeling beat up, anxious or exhausted? Is your workplace culture dragging you down?  We’ve got a public seminar for that!

Workplace Sandbox Conflict

Now more than ever, workplaces are challenged workplace conflict causing stress, mental health issues, retaining talent and the capacity to work through conflict.  Workplace conflict costs everyone; employers and employees. Great workplace culture is everyone’s responsibility and retained profits can benefit all involved.  Listen and learn more in my latest short video: While writing a […]

Am I Secure?

am I secure?

Have you ever thought about security? Or your own insecurities? And wondered how your life could be empowered by finding security from within?

Workplace Trust

Workplace Trust

Trust is an action.  You give it out.  You put energy into it.  You also can receive and earn trust faster than you may think possible. 

Social Enterprise

When I wrote Give and Be Rich, I interviewed great givers and asked them questions about how rich they became by giving. 

Dealing with Gossip in your Workplace

gossiping gulls

I get asked the question time and time again… “What do you say to stop gossip that’s coming at you?  Here are my suggestions.  First, in a previous leadership tip, I’ve described gossip as “… always negative. If you’re talking trash about someone, behind their back to someone else, you’re gossiping…. Is there a difference […]

Verbal Abuse in the Workplace

verbal abuse in the workplace

Three Bite Rule to Ending Verbal Abuse at Work Taking 3 bites to make relationships work, and then another 3 bites the next time we have a chance to try it again, gives us a frame of mind that we need to keep on extending the olive branch when relations are rocky; but what about […]