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What is the most important thing in your life?
You’ve might have guessed it? Yes, it is our relationships that are the most important thing to us! This starts with our relationship with ourselves, our loved ones and our work colleagues and our friends. Despite how important relationships are, we often take them...
Have your team quit and forgotten to tell you?
Of all the resources in business, the team working with you is the most valuable and the most complex to manage. When motivated, your team can take up Herculean tasks (like dealing with the challenges presented by Covid) and barely break a sweat. But, when things go...
Is feedback the breakfast of champions?
Feedback really should be the breakfast of champions! Life is full of situations where we need to give tough feedback. It could be to a direct report on a recent project that didn’t go well, to your manager who keeps interrupting you in a meeting, to your spouse who...
How do you jump start your battery
The theme of many client conversations and coaching sessions is one of feeling stretched and exhausted. I am hearing words and phrases like, “Drowning, treading quicksand, pulled in so many directions, fighting fires and I just want to run away for a while.” Can you...
Who loves you the most?
This past weekend, with it being Valentine’s Day, the message of love was everywhere. I kept wondering what people would say if asked, “Who loves you the most?” So, I asked a few people. Only one (out of 10) said, “I do, I love myself the most.” Another said,...
What you might not know about love
As we approach Valentine’s Day, our notions of love are often focused on those of a romantic nature. Today, I want to challenge us to think broader than that. In fact, it might require a significant shift in the way you think about love. The kind of perspective we are...
How do you lead with influence not control?
Last week we started taking Key Steps to overcome micromanaging by recognising the problem and understanding it better. We identified the main reasons we can fall into the trap in the first place and we recognised the signs, triggers and negative impact of...
Listen to learn not to respond
Listen to learn not to respond Last week I shared my concerns about the vanishing lunch break. This week, I share another very big concern… the quality of our listening or lack thereof! On a good day, most people register only one fifth of what they hear. So, quality...
Overcome blocks and access your genius state
Overcome Barriers and take Key Steps to Access Your Genius State Last week, I shared some of the barriers that can get in the way of us thinking critically and problem-solving. The intention was to help us see what can prevent us from adapting to our very disrupted,...
Common Barriers to Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
Common Barriers to Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving I am in a month of problem-solving… almost all the work that I am doing with client’s in October centres on enabling critical thinking to solve-problems and make effective-decisions. I am sure we can all agree...
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