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The Number One Secret to Managing Millennial Employees
If you are a Boomer or Gen X leader tasked with managing a team of millennial employees, there is really only one thing you need to know – they aren’t that different from you. Much ado has been made in the media about the differences between generations, but there is also ample research on their similarities. One such study, conducted by Ben Rosen, a Ph.D. and Professor of Organizational... -
5 Steps to Increase Your Productivity By 20%
Are you an executive with too much on your plate? You are not alone. Fortunately there is something that you can do about it. During 3 years of research, productivity expert Jordan Cohen showed that while executives waste on average a whopping 41% of their day on low priority tasks, this can be dramatically shifted for the better by using these 5 tricks to can streamline your efforts and free up... -
3 Key Behaviours to Avoid Burnout
I make my living showing leaders the importance of keeping their priorities straight in both their business and their lives, so I was shocked recently to recognize how far I had allowed a current project to take over both my life and my business and cause me to lose sight of my own priorities. As I sat reflecting on what had caused this dramatic fall from grace in my... -
You Only Need to Do One Thing for Your Best Year Yet
The first quarter of the year has already come and gone and hopefully you are feeling great about your progress so far. Unfortunately, you are far more likely in the 90% of people who feel like they are falling behind ...
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Valuing Your Business for Sale
There are many different ways to gauge the price of a business for sale. Some of the more common include valuing the business based on profits, cash flow, assets or sector. The challenge with all of these methods is that they rely solely on financial data, and miss valuing intangible assets such as customer goodwill, corporate culture, staff relationships, and brand. All of these are crucial ingredients in the... -
Stressed in the City Part 5 – Right-Sizing Your Vision
In this final installment of the Stressed in the City series I want to address an often misunderstood topic that is at the root of stress for many successful people – vision (or lack thereof).
The first pitfall is not having a vision at all. Having no vision for your life and work causes stress because you have nothing to work towards, nothing to look forward to, nothing to... -
Millennial Madness: Is a Millennial workforce the secret to your labour shortage or just common sense?
I find it interesting that people always seem to be looking for some secret answer – that ever elusive bit of information, research, new theory or latest model that is going to help them solve all of their problems. Yet in my experience, when you look more deeply at these “groundbreaking” research and models, it isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know – or at least anything we... -
Workplace 3.0: The future wave of workplace innovation
While I love the ease of information access that the internet provides for building our business, developing training programs, researching resources for coaching clients, and getting my regular personal and professional growth fixes without having to leave the comfort of my own home, I am definitely someone who uses the internet (and most technology for that matter) on a “need to” basis only. I can pretty much always find... -
Love and the Retail Environment
Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. Khalil Gibran What does it really take to motivate people to bring joy, along with their best effort, to work in a retail environment? Keep the... -
Lessons from Silicon Valley
This New Year’s my fiancé and I traveled to the heart of Silicon Valley, to meet my new nephew. While for me the baby was the star attraction, my fiancé was equally enthralled with the wheeling and dealing of my brother-in-law, a senior lawyer in a law firm that has assisted such tech heavy-hitters as Google and Sun Microsystems with their IPOs and acquistions. And so between baby coddling...
