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It Doesn’t Sit Well With Me
In the English language, a common phrase used to be ‘it doesn’t sit well with me’. It’s fallen out of common usage and I rarely hear leaders use this phrase during our coaching sessions. I wish it...
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Why You Don’t Need a Business Plan
I was at a networking lunch recently, listening to someone teach about business planning. “every business needs a business plan” they said and then went on to explain what a business plan includes. It...
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The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a Culture of Leadership
It is with great excitement that I am writing today’s post. The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a Culture of Leadership is officially available in both printed and ebook format (you’ll find handy...
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What’s Your Inspiration?
As a solo-entrepreneur or small business owner, it’s critical to have inspiration. Inspiration that you can draw upon when the going gets tough. And there are always tough moments when you have a...
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How to (Finally) Take Action
One of the biggest struggles of being a small business owner is actioning all of your great ideas. They come to you in the shower…or while you’re driving…or you’re suddenly awake at 3am. It’s a...
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Leading So People Will Lead | managerSeminare Interview
In interviews, I have been asked ‘are leaders ready to lead so that people will lead’? And that’s exactly what I was asked in a short 7 minute video last month. This interview, about leadership, was...
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The Project Management Problem for Small Business Owners
As an entrepreneur, I’m familiar with just how many great ideas you have for your small business. The ideas that pop into your head in the shower…during meditation…on a long walk…while having dinner...
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Is Micromanaging Sabotaging Your Small Business?
One of the big leaps when you are growing a small business is the move from doing everything yourself to hiring people to do some of the work for you. It might be work that you really don’t like doing...
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Why I Grit My Teeth About The Goose Story
Someone in a workshop was citing the infamous goose story that is so often told in leadership circles. I will keep it short as most people are now familiar with it as the new archetypal story for good...
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Even Small Business Needs Strategy
As a small business and start-up coach, one of the conversations I have with every single client starts with ‘I need a website’. And invariably, they want a website that is going to create customers...
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How Leadership Archetypes are Affecting Results
Photo Credit: Chadica on Flickr When you think of leadership, what archetype comes into your mind? Pause for a moment and consider what comes up for you. An archetype might be represented by a person,...
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Are you self-employed or a business owner?
You’re out at a party or function at your kid’s school. You meet someone new and invariably the question comes up ‘So, what do you do?” If you’ve just recently started working for yourself, odds are...
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Leadership Development in Relation to System Change
Years ago in the late 80’s and early 90’s a small group of us in the Urban Core Support Network (UCSN) in Canada were committed to understanding and engaging in transforming organizations and...
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Grow Your Small Business
Whether you’re a solo-entrepreneur working off your kitchen table, a well-established small business, or something even bigger, the time will come where you’ll be ready to grow your small business....
View ArticleSave Energy…Keep it Simple: A Strategic Plan Refresh
Increasingly, we are hearing and seeing signs of ‘strategic planning fatigue’ in all sorts of the organizations that we are approached by. This is what I heard from a member of a leadership team just...
View ArticleGetting More From Your Change Management Project
Lots of people are involved in change management projects at this time of rapid change in our world. There are a variety of approaches to change management. All of them will benefit from this one...
View ArticleThe Power of Limits as both a Strength and Paradox for Leadership
One of the greatest breakthroughs that our clients experience is through developing the capacity of handling paradoxical concepts simultaneously. One example of this that we teach in our Extraordinary...
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Why is Leadership Important?
Recently in a workshop, someone asked me the question “why is leadership important?” I had been completely immersed in the need to shift ourselves towards the new leadership paradigm of leading so...
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Engagement and Leadership
A senior leader sought out our services telling us that he was in a struggle to achieve employee engagement. The initial pass in our investigative first discussion, identified ‘achieve employee...
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Project Turnaround
What might you do if you have a project and despite your best efforts, despite excellent leadership and terrific people on the team, the project is in trouble? Project management is a science unto...
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