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Imagine coming home with a report card at the end of every day with a checklist of possible behaviours that you either demonstrated or didn’t. And then a paragraph at the end which describes who [...]

Here’s what I love about Halloween. There’s an expectation that everyone gets something they want. It’s like a parade of positive feedback. And all you have to do is put a bit of thought into a [...]

Big projects take a lot of energy. To succeed, you need a clear vision. You need to be flexible. And you need to ensure those around you are aligned with where you are going. One of my big [...]

  My Aunt Barb, who has had a successful career as a teacher, minister and author, gave me some good advice when I started my leadership coaching practice almost 15 years ago.She said for [...]

Disrupt Unhealthy Work Patterns I didn’t mean to get into a heated discussion with a Pastor, but 21 years ago during my mandatory pre-marital crash course, I kind of did. We somehow got onto the [...]

NAIL IT!® Success Stories In my first career I worked in public relations. In my PR role I wrote a lot of news releases. There’s a formula for writing a news release that gets read and it starts [...]

Has your mother ever told you to mind your Ps and Qs? Honestly, I never knew what she was talking about. Be good? I did a little research on the origin of the phrase and my favorite explanation [...]

Around midnight – nine hours before the bell would ring for the first day of school – my husband and I were having a whispering debate about how to treat our eleven-year-old’s flu [...]

Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean it’s your passion… I highly suspect that Lu is suffering from career burnout, but he isn’t your typical employee. Still, twice a day Lu [...]

Managers Need to Step Up and Course-Correct I recently met with the head of a company who said she’s finally figured it out. She actually had to fire some employees if she wanted to grow the [...]