There’s no way to fully explore the concept of collaboration in this day and age without talking about technology. The days of waiting to get started or delaying the making of decisions until all parties were in the same room…
In the corporate world, a popular practice or theory is that of ‘workplace alignment’, which relates to how companies can improve their work environment (and in turn, their bottom line) when the values, roles and/or goals of employees are aligned.…
Do you give your career a lot of thought? Are you committed, eager and engaged, or did you ‘check out’ years ago? Maybe you’re somewhere in-between; you like some of what you do, but you know there’s more out there…
In this series on self-confidence, we’ve learned that not only is it a multifaceted, sometimes elusive quality we aspire to have in the perfect amount, but that it’s also a key element to living our best lives and accomplishing the…
It’s really hard to have self-confidence without having self-belief. Our belief in ourselves means having faith in our abilities and our own judgement, which helps propel us towards taking risks and reaching goals. Our self-belief has more to do with…
We know that mental resilience is our mind’s ability to adapt and recover when dealing with adversity, but it’s also important to explore how physical resilience impacts us, and why it’s important. Physical resilience is our body’s ability to adapt…
When I think back to our expedition on Mount Everest, if I had to choose one word that separated the successful teams from the unsuccessful teams, the word would be resilience. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from difficulties…
After exploring the various aspects of risk-taking and mitigating risks, there’s another area that we need to consider – positive risks. We typically think of risks as hazardous, unwelcome events that negatively impact our goals. However, in every endeavour or…
As we delve more deeply into our discussion of risks and risk-taking, it’s important to get a solid understanding of the potential for risks and how to identify them – if, or when, they arise. If we want to achieve…
When we think about emotional intelligence, we recognize that it’s a complex issue involving many internal and external factors that impact our thoughts, emotions and behaviours. One of the key components of emotional intelligence that sometimes gets overlooked is self-motivation…
