Image from Clip Art What is Your Management Style? Can you find a balance between being a hard-nosed, results-oriented boss and a hovering, nagging mother hen? Of course you can! Each team manager may have the same goals, but they can take a different route to get there! We are all unique. When we first become a manager, we try to mirror our most successful example, good or bad. When we’ve tripped up a few times, we recover, and then…
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Decision Making: Back to Basics The pros and the cons! Decisions happen every day. Some are so small and mundane we hardly have to think twice. The others? Those decisions can have ‘life-altering’ consequences and should be made more carefully. Just recently, I was asked to do a guest article for a magazine! Great! The topic was interesting, but there was a dilemma: Should I make it more personal, or should I stick to the research-based facts? ~ A non-life-threatening…
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Trying to make change? Being ‘Well-liked’ Does Help the Job. “I don’t think anyone likes me.” My client started to explain the reason for his call. “No one likes me at this new job.” My client, a well-established Project Manager, was hired six months ago to fill the shoes of a middle-manager position. He knew the industry, but was not settling into the position. I was invited in on a Saturday morning to look at his desk, office and meeting…
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I got THIS CLOSE to an iceberg! To See the Icebergs! WOW! I was fortunate enough to complete my mission to visit the far east coast of Canada this June! The conflict for me has always been how to merge my business goals with my personal goals; or should they be treated equally? I love to travel and one of my goals is to see Canada, (my home and native land) from coast to coast to coast…to coast! It is…
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“I’m unable to attend the meeting as I’m busy in the Design Studio!” Practical Steps to Success #21: Present Clear Messages; avoid miscommunications and save time! There’s a growing concern about using texts as a business platform. I dislike the plethora of group texts with a one-liner comment; which leads to many MORE texts. When I need to address a specific matter, being specific will avoid more questions and therefore, interruption. This type of correspondence can lead to irritation, distractions, …
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Practical Steps to Success # 20: Prevent Conflicts while building your team Verbal skills are so important when building a team. Miscommunication can present unclear objectives, trigger stress and foster a lack of respect for team players. When I discuss personality dynamics in a workshop or talk, I relate behaviour to one of the five earth’s elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These elements offer a unique insight on how people and things react to one another. Just as fire…
Read MorePersistence Reveals an Award for Excellence! Established over three years ago, I’d like to highlight this little business in DaNang, Vietnam. ‘Looking Glass Jeep Tours’ is my son’s company. Despite the odds for success being a foreigner in Vietnam, persistence has paid off. Jeremy Wilking was frustrated trying to find work a few years ago in North America. He was tired of the circus: employment, unemployment, employment, etc. When he set out for Vietnam to teach English as a…
Read MorePractical Steps to Success # 19: Twenty One Days to Change a Habit? Why? Why? Why? Why is it SO HARD to change a few little things? Either to try something new or adapt a new habit… Is it really mind-over-matter? Or, is something else going on? The cliché, Twenty One Days to Change a Habit is true, but it is not what you think. It is the brain and the muscles that can be self-sabotaging! They are the ones…
Read MoreThis are great colours for meeting new people at a trade show. Practical Steps to Success #18: Dress for Success Your choice of clothing not only represents you and your company, but can also reflect your mood. If you are confident, clothing can help you send that message. If you are nervous about a presentation, learning which colours ‘support’ you can be very important. Colour therapy works by stimulating your visual synapses; therefore, sending positive messages to the brain. How…
Read MorePractical Steps to Success #16: The Magical Game of ‘If’ If I had a choice…. If I had a chance… If I had the notion to… If I met the right partner and had the right job, I could…. If I stretched my mind just a bit further, I wonder what I could accomplish... ~~~ If I was an actor/actress, I could move from the plane of reality and jump into another life; written and orchestrated by me. I would…
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