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Managing & Understanding Conflict
The ability to cope successfully with conflict is among the most important social skills one can acquire. The COVID – 19 era has highlighted a number of challenges that have been part of our...
Winning the Hearts & Minds of your Employees
The implied contract that has traditionally bound employees and employers has disappeared from the fabric of employee – employer relationships. Thousands of employees have experienced the agony and...
The Working From Home Culture Begins To Fade
A gradual reverse migration is under way, from Zoom to the conference room. Wall Street firms have been among the most forceful in summoning workers to their offices and in recent months and even...
DECEPTION & DETECTION
Before you begin to read this article, I want to point out that I study and follow the teachings of Pamela Meyer, Paul Ekman and Frank Byrnes. If you like their work or have not heard of these three...
DEALING WITH POOR PERFORMANCE
Most if not all of my clients function optimally because of individual contributions of team members and the leadership group. Leading a team involves ensuring that every team member maintains a...
Motivation
Good old ”MO”. Leaders, Managers, Directors, Vice President and Presidents have been talking about this for decades and it comes back to the same old – same old “you cannot motivate anybody who...
Largest Challenges Facing Managers in the Canadian Workplace Today.
Abstract: The purpose of this article it's not to tell you what to do as a Manager nor is it intended to tell you how to manage you're working environment and provide leadership to your people. It...
Resetting Culture via Leadership
Jimmy Ray Dean (country music singer, actor, business man, philanthropist and founder of the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company) once said; “I can't change the direction of wind but, I can adjust my sails...
The Grey Wave Is Here
The number of people over the age of 65 is growing faster than the rest of the populace and what this group values, how they think, where they decide to spend their money and how the economy will be...