The One Thing Leaders Need for Practicing Self-Care
The world is burning out and burning up. As organizations strive to enable hybrid work (or work from anywhere) amidst health and climate emergencies, leaders are being asked to do a lot. A former colleague of mine, Ilene, introduced nearly…
Elevating and Grounding
The best experiences simultaneously are elevating and grounding for people. Elevating means advancing something worthwhile, connecting people to a purpose or cause, and realizing our potential by striving with boldness. Grounding conjures ideas of sensibility, practicality, and being rooted to…
Five Compensation Questions Organizations Should be Asking
While the science is clear that money does not buy happiness, economists and organizational psychologists argue that compensation is a major factor for people when we are deciding where to work. Pay influences employees’ motivation, engagement, and productivity. According to…
Camping
Our family – like, the grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles – is camping in the woods of Vancouver Island. We are experiencing good food, sparkling conversation, and wonderful wilderness adventures. We might even climb a mountain and will definitely play…
Enough
I have had enough of the heat wave plaguing Western North America. By this definition, I mean having too much of something, like heat, intolerance, abuse, sensationalism, or fixed mindedness. Our tolerance has been reached or exceeded when we have…
Aspirational Self-Awareness
“You are the way that others see you” is, according to the Gikomba Market vendor who sold me a sarong in 2006, a Maasai proverb. When we seek to understand how others perceive our actions and absorb the impact of…
Three Essential Ingredients for Successful Digital Transformation
Digital transformation means adopting digital technology to fundamentally change businesses, services, and experiences in our communities. Everyone is talking about digital transformation. Some organizations, like Nike, Celero, and BCIT, are making it happen for their customers and stakeholders. Accelerated by…
Potential
Channeling the way we grow as people can (and should) build healthy communities that are sustainable for the long term. We all have potential and there is always potential for making the world better. Potential means possibility. It means that…
Kindness
Kindness is in all of us. We need more of it in the world today. When I observe fans at sporting events combined social trolls spewing garbage content at everyone from public health officials to women of colour who have…
Three Ways to Lead with Love
Valentines Day is coming up and you will probably have a few conversations about love in the days ahead. I think that we need to be having more conversations about love at work because there are profound benefits when it…