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Tag Archives: Teams
The Train Stops Here
There is an old story about the Foreman going to the Manager with a training request for an employee. The boss says, “What happens if we train him and he leaves?”, to which the Foreman responds, “What happens if we … Continue reading
Posted in Assessments, Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Communication, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Empowering people, Leadership, Learning styles, Life coaching, MBTI, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Team development, Training
Tagged Business, Career, Coaching, Communication, Employee retention, Employees, Employers, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Management, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Organization, Organizational development, Organizational training, Profession, Recruitment and Retention, Soft skills, Staff Training, team building, Teams, Teamwork, Technical Skills, Technical Training, Trade, Trainers, Training, Workshops
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Determination Wins the Game
Not quite. Determination and a well executed game will win. I just watched the Blues win the Stanley Cup against the Bruins. Were they determined? After 52 years, you bet they were! But it wasn’t only determination that won the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Coaching, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Marketing, Relationships
Tagged 'Blues', 'Bruins', Assessments, Business, Business plan, Coaching, Communication, Competition, Determination, Love, relationships, Sports, Teams
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Labour Shortage
We have no excuse, we were warned in 1996 by David Foot in his best selling book, “Boom, Bust & Echo that this was coming. Twenty-three years later some employers are just waking up to the fact that there is … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Career professional, Coaching, Community Futures, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Human resources, Leadership, Older Worker, Team development, Training
Tagged Boom, British Columbia, Business, Businesses, Bust & Echo, David Foot, Disability, Employee retention, Employees, Employment, Human Resources, Jobs, Labour Shortage, Organizational development, Professions, Recruitment and Retention, team building, Teams, Training, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate
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Coaching, Team Building
Why have teams? For years, many industries, operated as a dictatorship. Their words were law and you either did what you were told, or you looked for other employment. Management ignored the fact that successful competitors were taking a different … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Human resources, Leadership, Team development, Training
Tagged Business, Coaching, community, Competitors, Employees, Employment, Human Resources, Industries, Leadership, Management, Manager, Organizational development, Organizational training, Recruitment and Retention, Soft skills, Staff Training, team building, Teams, Training
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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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Communication and Teamwork
Listening to the Crows at 4 a.m. this morning (hard not to when they are outside your bedroom window!), I marveled at their ability to summon the ‘troops’ to their defense when faced with a threat. The threat in this … Continue reading
Business Visibility
How your business is seen by others can make the difference between success and failure. I once complimented a friend who had a restoration company on how clean he kept his trucks. They were white with company graphics and never … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Chamber of Commerce, Clients, Coaching, Communication, Community Futures, Customers, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, FaceBook, Life coaching, LinkedIn, Marketing, Networking, Relationships, Sales, self-employment, Service Clubs, Social Media, Volunteering
Tagged Business, Clients, Coaching, Communication, Customer base, Customer Service, Employees, Life coach, Organizational training, relationships, Teams, Visibility
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Myers-Briggs Type Inventory®
If you are wanting to make changes in your life as a promise to yourself in 2017, a place to start for you might be the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory®. Understanding how you and others communicate and make decisions certainly helps … Continue reading
Posted in Assessments, Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Communication, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Leadership, Learning styles, Life coaching, Lifestyle, Listening, MBTI, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Networking, organizational change, Relationships, Retirement, self-employment, Team development, Training
Tagged Assessments, Board Development, Boards, Business, Career, Career transition, Change, Change Management, Coaching, Communication, Life coach, MBTI, MBTI step II, Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Organizational Change, Organizational development, Organizational training, Personality, Personality type, Preferences, relationships, Soft skills, Staff Training, Stress, team building, Teams, Training, Workshops
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Organizational Health
How often have you reviewed what you do at work? How often has the business you work for or run reviewed what their work processes look like? When was the last time you reviewed your position descriptions? All of these … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Coaching, Communication, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Human resources, Leadership, organizational change, Team development, Training
Tagged Change, Change Management, Coaching, Employment, Human Resources, Organizational Change, Organizational development, Reorganization, team building, Teams, Training
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The Political Scene
We are on the outside but witnessing what I believe to be one of the most valuable lessons in politics. For many years, perhaps decades, maybe longer, the politics of North America has focused on, for the most part, those … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Coaching, Communication, Diversity, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Human resources, Leadership, Life coaching, Listening, Managing stress, Relationships, self-employment, Team development
Tagged Coaching, Communication, Employee retention, Employees, Employment, Human Resources, Life coach, Organizational development, Politics in Business, Recruitment and Retention, relationships, Soft skills, Stress, team building, Teams
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