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Leadership and Possibility
Today, I would like to explore how leaders experience possibility, and use it to guide their teams. Leaders spend much of their thinking time in the realm of possibility, thinking...
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38 Natural Leadership Qualities That Make You a Better Person
It is important to continue to improve yourself every day and the best way to do that is to take note of all the natural qualities that make up who...
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Leadership and Love
I’m critical. And I’m judgmental. Of people and of things. At times my head floods with negative thoughts.
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Connecting with People - Getting Back to Basics
This morning I watched a Ted Talk entitled “Falling in Love is the Easy Part” by Mandy Len Catron (Catron's Ted Talk). She is known for writing an article in...
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Why Listening is Such a Key Leadership Skill
Did you get everything done yesterday that you wanted to? How about the day before that? Would you like more time in your day to do everything? Work, texting the...
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Leadership Development in a Challenging Workplace Needs a New Approach
Every day news stories, images and videos squawk like vultures over politics, catastrophes and hardship. Global leaders struggle with terrorism, poverty and hunger, infectious diseases, cyber-crime and the confusing global economy.
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10 Ways to Develop a Positive Mindset After Surviving a Layoff
It’s all too familiar these days: the heartbreaking images of empty cubicles, vacant offices, deserted downtown parades, and recurring headlines spewing news of cost reduction and more layoffs.
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Frantically Busy but Unproductive? 8 Tips to Manage Yourself, Not your Time
In a recent survey of 350,000 people worldwide by Franklin Covey, people admitted to spending up to 40 per cent of their time on unimportant or irrelevant tasks.
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Avoiding Job Burnout - Where are You on the Stress Curve?
With shocking speed last year we fell into this major downturn in the oil patch in western Canada and economically worldwide.
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Coping with Job Loss? 5 Ways You may be Sabotaging your Career Comeback—and How to Avoid Them
If you’re one of the many people who have been laid off recently, this is for you. Recovering from the varied and complex ramifications of a job loss can be overwhelming.
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Boost Employee Engagement and Employee Productivity with these 2 Key Steps (Part 1)
With shocking speed, we’ve fallen into a major downturn in the oil patch. Capital projects have been cancelled and jobs and budgets have been drastically cut.