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Find Your Voice
It is interesting how we, as the public, have become numbed to what is happening around us. Mass shootings, changes to tax laws affecting small business, massive hydro increases, auto insurance increases, and unnecessary spending at all levels of government. … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Chamber of Commerce, Coaching, Communication, Community Futures, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Leadership, Lifestyle, organizational change
Tagged Business, Change, Change Management, Communication, Democracy, Elected Representative, Federal Government, Municipal Government, Political System, Provincial Government
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Are We Being Nice Enough?
Perhaps it seems like a silly question to ask a Canadian, given our reputation, but are we? Where we might do better is with the tourists and visitors who come to visit and take in our beautiful sights or attend … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Coaching, Communication, Customers, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Listening, Marketing, Relationships
Tagged Business, Businesses, Canadian, Communication, Customer Service, Customers, Nanaimo, Rotarians, Staff Training, Tourism, Tourists, Vancouver Island, Visitors
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The Art of Writing
I’m not talking about novels, or blogs, I’m talking about everyday written communication. It used to be in business you hand wrote on a three-part memogram, tore out the pink copy for your records, and forwarded the white and green … Continue reading
Attitude!
You’ve seen them, the ones with the little black cloud above their head. You get behind them in supermarket lines or at a kid’s fun fairs, and they want you to listen to their bitching about something that isn’t right, … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Human resources, Listening
Tagged Attitude, Challenges, Coaching, Communication, Employment, Human Resources, Life coach, Negative Attitude, Positive Attitude, relationships
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Business Challenges
One tends to always thinks of business challenges being associated with finances and marketing. In reality, there are more issues that can affect a business, especially a new business. Today, technology plays a substantial role in many businesses. If your … Continue reading
Who’s on Your Team?
In board rooms, members of the board are generally chosen based on a set of criteria. They may see the need to have someone with a financial background, someone with legal expertise, and others who are well connected in the … Continue reading
Posted in Assessments, Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Coaching, Communication, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Empowering people, Life coaching, Listening, Managing stress, MBTI, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Relationships, Team development
Tagged Assessments, Board Development, Boards, Change Management, Coaching, Communication, Extroverts, Feeling, Introverts, Intuition, Judging, MBTI, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Organizational development, Organizational training, Perceiving, Personality, Personality type, Sensing, team building, Teams, Thinking
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What Happened to the Passion?
I remember listening to Robert Fulghum at a Rotary International conference in Portland Oregon in 1990. Prior to this conference I had never heard of him. He had a simple delivery of common sense that made you realize that common … Continue reading
