Happiness makes us better at our jobs, makes us more productive, resilient and less likely to burn out. We’re more drawn to happy people – in both our personal and…
The increasing demand for entrepreneurial managers
My colleagues and I interviewed nearly 100 inventors of revolutionary products and services, as well as founders and CEOs of game-changing companies – people like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Intuit’s…
Employees with soft skills are key to success
As a business leader, if you’re focused on cultivating hard skills at the expense of soft skills and emotional IQ, you’re doing it wrong. Identifying employees with the right soft…
Don’t be so hard on yourself! UBC study on first-year student stress
Stressed out university students, take note: self-compassion may be the key to making it through your first year, according to new research from the University of British Columbia. Researchers from…
How to foster a coaching culture at your workplace
How effective are you as a coach to your employees? One factor that can positively or negatively impact employees’ engagement is their relationship with their direct manager. The collection of…
Why you didn’t get the job
This may be the toughest question of them all. You went to the interview (or likely a series of interviews), they all seemed to go well, the people you met…
Ontario universities pressed to show value, demand for graduate degrees
Some of Ontario’s universities may have to reconsider their plans to expand master’s and PhD programs as the province tries to encourage the sector to focus on training students who…
Why you should seek a mentee
Most of what we hear about mentorship focuses on the importance of having a mentor. I want to share a different perspective, one that I have benefited from over the…
Marketing in a world gone digital
No change has had more impact on marketing since the turn of the century than the dominance of the digital culture. Whether you’re an established company like 3M which has…
The changing model of leadership
Several years ago, I was coaching Tracy (not her real name) who was an up-and-coming performer working for a major pharmaceutical organization in New York. She was smart, ambitious and,…