October 16, 2021
We just finished Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend and like many people, I was stuffed. It made me think of the last time my brain was stuffed to capacity, overloading and not able to take on anything else. When was the last time for you?
October 15, 2021
Remember having day-long planning sessions where everyone got together to figure out a problem or map out your plans for the next quarter or year? If you haven’t had to do this yet (don’t worry it’s coming) but if you have one on the horizon and aren’t sure where to start, here are a few pointers. Pre-Preparation – yes pre-preparation, before the session begins, identify what you need people to do before they get there, what information do you need to have in hand so you can anticipate people’s questions and directions. Start with the people – only invite people
October 14, 2021
When everyone was together at the office, we would use the expression – “Let’s get in a room and figure this out”. But there are no rooms, they are all closed up. If you’re a company that is now “remote first” you won’t have these rooms again. But this phase still matters – “Getting into a room and figuring this out”. This is why you need to find a new room to capture the same message and evoke the same feelings you used to have when you were on site, together and you could do this. This is what your
October 13, 2021
If you sign up to do something, it’s on you to do it. If you don’t do it, your team will question the next time you take on a commitment and the next time, and on and on and on. Commitments are not easy, nor should they be. That’s why we need to think to make them. If you do take on a commitment and get stuck, good, that means you’re working on it. But the follow-up is to put your hand up and ask for help. You have a whole team waiting to jump in and help you.
October 12, 2021
There are jobs we have that we are not right for. We have all had roles that we were completely mismatched for – you might have thought it was the thing you’d been dying for, but in reality, you were catfished and now you’re doing something completely different. Even still you might have a job you were hired for with a title you aspire to be, but what you are doing is nowhere near what you actually signed up to do. Were you miscast? Did you do it for money? For fame? For the title? Whatever it was or is,
