What’s on Your Bucket List?
Take a few minutes to consider the following: if you were to “kick the bucket” today – to pass away, as the catchphrase implies – how would you live the final moments of your life? What actions and pu…
What’s on Your Bucket List?
One sure way to get feeling good and doing your best with the personal and professional relationships in your life is to live each day as if it were your last. If today was your last day at the office, how would you live it? The relationships with co-workers and customers would be a priority. […]
Step #1 to Workplace Relations
Success is all about relationships, yet the most earthly relationship that we can cultivate, is the relationship with ourselves. How can you expect people in the workplace to like and respect …
Step #1 to Workplace Relations
Success is all about relationships. The first step towards growing those relationships is the raising the value you place on yourself.
Staying Optimistic in Tough Times
The financial forecasts say we are bouncing back from the 2009 economic downturn. Although there are countless people out of work, looking for a change, or worried about their own security I see one …
Optimistic in Turbulent Times
One common denominator that I feel anyone needs despite their status of security in this economic time is OPTIMISM. In the workplace there are many changes that can leave us feeling apprehensive. Times change, people change, positions change, downsizing occurs, coworkers leave, people lose their jobs or their health; yet the only thing consistent besides […]
Three A’s For Mastering Conflict Conversations
Recently I was asked how one could approach their boss to communicate disagreement in their leadership skills and plans for the organization. If you ever have mixed feelings about whether you should …
Approaching a difficult conversation
A question I get regularly, “What do I say to a bad boss?” First, separate the person from the problem. It’s not the leader that is bad, it is their behaviour that needs improvement (in your opinion). Start by visualizing a positive result, and that good intention locked into your mind will bring the right […]
Improve Your Practice with a Mission Statement
How can your team achieve a target that it doesn’t even have? If you have a mission statement already – great; if it’s a few years old, it could use some polishing, and if you don’t have one yet, …
Good Habits – Make and Keep Commitments
Another key to success – Making and Keeping Commitments. How do you do it? You form good habits. Good habits are the key to..