Imagine your surgeon telling you she did an “OK job” on the operation, or a contractor saying that the furnace installation is “good enough”. We’d all be pretty shocked and upset at the lack of effort for something so important.…
When we collaborate, we increase our odds for success; it’s a tried and true method to take our idea, project or business to new heights – even heights we didn’t know were possible! However, it can’t work if the setting…
For anyone who remembers Vanilla Ice, he said it best when he sang: “Stop, collaborate and listen”! We tend to forget how important it is to work together instead of just ploughing through life in a tunnelled, self-focused way. Collaboration…
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could always end a difficult relationship with a hearty handshake and a sincere ‘best of luck to you’? The reality is that while that can and does happen on occasion, the end of our…
The success of a workplace or organization is largely dependent on its teams; how they work together is critical. We want to take our team to the next level and then the next, and beyond; the possibilities are limitless! Naturally,…
To accomplish great things, we need to work together. Teamwork is essential not only in the workplace, but in other areas of life as well. As we continue to explore teams and groups in this month’s series, let’s look at…
Teamwork makes the dream work, so they say, but how exactly do you build or participate in teams that are highly functional and successful? We’ve all experienced that failed group project or unproductive committee where things just…fizzled out, or a…
We live in an incredibly fast-paced, competitive, and often turbulent time, with everything changing at warp-speed. I can barely get through a day without a software update or new coffee flavour being pitched at me! As humans, we are made…
Navigating Challenges The theme for this month’s insight is navigating challenges…and obviously we’re going to be talking a little bit about white water kayaking as well! I had the opportunity last weekend to go white water kayaking with my brother-in-law…
Reframing Activities Today I want to talk to you about reframing activities, which is really a dimension of agile leadership. As many of you know, I’m very much an advocate of agile leadership practices. In terms of reframing activities, most…
