Last week I sat on a judging panel at the University of York in Toronto, assessing business cases presentation the students prepared as the end of term project. I have to say I loved the experience. To see the passion, knowledge, and degree of preparation of the young talent was inspiring. Those young leaders will…
This week’s blog concludes a 3-week series for New Managers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs or freshly promoted new managers who need to start building and managing a team from scratch. In less than 10 mins, this read will save you from making some rookie mistakes and show you alternative ways. As a reminder…
Todays’ post starts week 2 of the New Manager Series. This week I am talking about how to get promoted within your organization to a manager role. But also, once you get there how to turn it into success. So if you are working in a position that you feel you have outgrown and want…
New Manager Series 1/3: Managing the Team You Inherited There are three main scenarios in which you can become a new manager: 1. You already have some leadership experience, and by moving to a new role in a different department or company, you start managing an existing team. 2. You are a Star A-player in…
More than we realize. I have been managing people longer than I am a parent. And although I sometimes joke that “I have a daycare at home so don’t want it at work,” the truth is parenting, and people management have a lot in common. The subject is so vast that I could write an…
Why You Should Send Perfectionism Where It Belongs – Hell. A lot of us, especially women (yes, I am one of them) struggle to lean in. We are scared to put ourselves out there and get out of our comfort zones especially in professional lives. Why? Because very often we assume that whatever we do…
5 Tips to Help You Become a Great Boss. What is respect? Here is a definition I put together from a couple of sources through our BFF Google. Respect is a positive feeling or action shown towards someone; it conveys a sense of admiration for their abilities, qualities or achievements; and it is also the…
4 Strategies to Help Managers and Their Teams to Move Mountains. According to the research, our brains on the fly can recall about seven items in a sequence. Seven seems to be the magic number for the capacity of our “working memory.” The working memory allows us to retain small chunks of information readily accessible…
I am writing about Courage today because it is one of the values I have chosen to guide and define my business. Helping business owners and managers to step into leadership that is brave enough to build cohesive teams and healthy organizations is the core of my mission. My inspiration for this post came from…
In today’s world, e-mail has become one of the primary means of communication. Whether it’s at work or home, some of us receive hundreds of e-mails a day. Who can read and process this much, I ask?? In my workplace some people can have whole e-mail conversations lasting hours or days on a subject that…