Most of us know (or know of) incredibly bright people who end up being unsuccessful in their personal or work lives, as well as people who struggled throughout school (or dropped out), yet became wildly successful, well-liked and on top…
Successful and agile teams don’t just happen overnight, they are built by having a strong environment that fosters collaboration, encouragement, and inspiration. In other words, empowerment. In our personal and professional lives, we regularly encounter situations and relationships that require…
Embracing change and responding quickly is so much more than simply being flexible. When talking about flexibility in my previous blog, we explored the various reasons why it’s important to be adaptable and make the most of changes we encounter.…
As part of our perpetual desire to improve ourselves and our lives, we continually set goals. Having goals keeps us hopeful, inspired, and challenged, but our ability to reach them is dependent on many factors; the key one being motivation.…
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…
Happy New Year everyone! I hope this past year has been fruitful and that the upcoming year holds lots of excitement as well. We welcomed in the New Year in a home-made, wood-fired hot tub that my brother and I…
Surviving Winter…with a Smile! The winter weather has officially arrived so this month I thought I would write a short article about surviving winter…with a smile! Now that my family and I are living back in Canada, we’ve had to get…
Do you Fear the Unknown? This month’s Insight is centred around the Fear of the Unknown, officially referred to as Xenophobia. This fear is present in almost everyone to a certain degree, and in its more severe occurrences an be extremely debilitating,…
