Four Tips for Work Appropriate Halloween Costumes
It’s Halloween! If you’re in one of many workplaces that celebrate this spooky day, you may be invited to come in costume and celebrate in style with the usual staff costume photo set to be pasted all over the organization’s…
Four Ways that Tough Feedback Makes Work Better
Our team has written quite a bit about feedback – both how to give it and how to ask for it and act on it. But in our day to day work, we are often confronted with input and criticism…
9 Adaptability Lessons from Heist Movies
One of the biggest trends impacting leaders today is the pace of change. Everything is shifting so quickly and we need to adapt like we’re careening through a crowded market in the South of France or heaving hundreds of millions…
Three Professional Lessons from Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow is a science fiction action film featuring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and a bunch of scary aliens. The film tells of the story of Major William Cage, a public relations officer with zero combat experience, who…
Four Ways to be OK with Life Sucking Right Now
Coronavirus continues to reshape our communities. Many of us have now been in isolation for over a month and things are weird at best and crippling at worst. Increasingly, it seems for many Canadians that physical distancing isn’t just some…
Six Tips for Staying Sane While Working from Home with Kids
Many parents are working from home with our kids as COVID-19 burns its way around the world. Canada has been impacted by mass unemployment. Offices are shuttered and employees in most industries have been sent home – some with pay,…
Five Things in a Great Decision
Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor is all about how to have difficult conversations in order to foster a culture of candor. One of my favourite sections tackles how to get to a great decision. As one might expect a Silicon…
Six Strategies to Support Mental Health and Resilience in the Workplace
Mental health and resilience (both on the job and outside of it) is an increasingly important consideration for anyone. For a long time, I didn’t give it too much consideration. As my responsibilities at work have increased and as I’ve…
Three Reasons Why you Should have Guiding Principles
Most people would say they are principled if you ask them. But if you drill down a little more, many will have difficulty telling you what exactly their principles are. Asked when they consider them, you’ll get blank look and…
Career Longevity Lessons from The Irishman
Martin Scorseses lengthy epic film, The Irishman, tells the story of truck driver Frank Sheeran, played by Robert De Niro, and his life as a mid-level enforcer for Russell Buffolino, played by Joe Pesci, and his Pennsylvania crime family. As…