Overcompensating For Your Underperformer
Is an under-performer slowly eroding your corporate culture, alienating other members of your team and setting up a dangerous dynamic? Because that’s exactly what happens if you tolerate or compensate for a member of your team who isn’t pulling their own weight. Under-performance is one of those subtle dynamics that goes on in many businesses. […]
Success Is Never A Solo Journey
Whatever it is you want to achieve – whether it’s growing a business or going for Gold at the Olympics – you will need support people working in the background to help you succeed.Those support people can be your business partner(s) or executive team, your spouse or life partner, your children, your employees and even […]
Are You Stuck In Your Stories?
What stories do you tell yourself when there’s no one else but you listening? Is it the same brave, bold story you put forward to the world or an unrecognizable, painfully small shadow of your public self? Do you use your stories to manifest the life you know at some level is possible? Or do […]
The Traps Of Average Between Romance And Retirement
Our personal and business lives tend to follow the same patterns. Understanding the dynamic of one often gives us insight into the other and vice versa. It makes sense if you think about it – YOU are the common element in each and how you interact and engage with both entities is a reflection of […]
The Importance of Corporate Values
Your corporate values are the sum of the top 4 or 5 personal values you and your leadership team hold. Similar values add strength to an organization, creating alignment and synergy while conflicting ones take away, often manifesting as internal conflict and ‘problem employees’. How do your corporate values add up? It’s important to remember […]
From Contribution To Prostitution And Back
How do you deal with adversity in your business? Do you stick to your big vision and push forward, finding new and different ways to achieve your goals, or do you take the easy way out and sell yourself short? Let me explain what prostitution has to do with goals. Often times, when tallying up […]
When Your Business Structure Sabotages Your Strategy
Is your business structure working against your strategy or supporting it? Let me explain. If you think of your strategy as the plan to achieve your goals, the structure is the framework that supports it. Trying to fit a round strategy into a square structure just won’t work. In fact, it works against your strategy, […]
Three Reasons Resolutions Don’t Work
With just a few hours left in 2013, everyone is making claims about how they will be different next year, from health to wealth, personal and professional relationships, and everything in between. All the best resolutions dancing in your mind and dreams seem to culminate today in that movie-like fantasy you are going to create […]
A Christmas Wish
Hi Everyone! I wanted to send everyone a special Holiday message this week, and wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I know this time can be very stressful will all of the extra activities and functions. Whether you are travelling over this season or hosting, it can really […]
Are Your Festivities Feeling Like ‘Stresstivities’?
Do you notice when the Holiday Season roles around your shoulders are up to your ears and you talk through your teeth thinking of how to navigate your family politics? You are not alone. The holiday season is one of the most stressful times of the year when it comes to family politics. The very […]