Change takes its toll. The last few years of living in a global pandemic have placed a heavy burden on us all. We’ve had to adapt to so many changes to the fundamental ways in which we’ve always lived...

It's a tough labour market out there and sometimes good talent can be hard to find. On top of that, your time is precious. So when you do find a good candidate how do you convince them to join your te...

Leaders need one thing from their teams…productivity. There’s not much debate about that. How leaders accomplish that is very different. Two teams can match levels of productivity but have vastly diff...

 Never break another New Year’s resolution.

It’s that time of year again. The time when many people make resolutions for the upcoming year. We start with noble aspirations to make the new year better...

During the month of December each week I will be writing about one important gift of leadership that you can give your team in the year ahead.

Most teams and organizations have metrics, there’s nothi...

 If you’ve shared the purpose and the strategic path with your team, there are two more critical elements you need to share with your people, individually, one by one. The plan and their place in it. ...

I believe that you, as a leader, have been equipped, uniquely enabled, to give those who follow you, your team or organization, four unique gifts. These four gifts were bestowed upon you as endowments...

Do you have that one person on your team that just seems to rub you the wrong way. It happens on teams, particularly executive teams, that there’s one person who seems to be always going against the g...

It’s that time again, when my American cousins south of the border celebrate a full day of NFL games in the middle of the week. Oh, and it’s Thanksgiving too. You’d probably expect me to write about h...

The long-term, sustainable indicator of the strength of a leader is not the singular result of any one project, plan or team. That could be luck. No, it’s the leader’s ability to build a strong and lo...