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Career Tips and Insights

 
Build a better corporate environment for your team and leave a leadership legacy to be proud of. Please enjoy these tips and insights about how to better engage your team, showcase your strengths and get on a career path that aligns with your passion. 
 
Ever Wish you Had a Do-Over at Work? May 19, 2023

Another chance to perfect a presentation, a conversation or performance?

Earlier this Spring, I attended Stars on Ice with my friend Sherri here in Halifax. It was a last-minute invite on a Friday night to join her and her team in their corporate box and I jumped at the chance. I hadn’t...

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What's Your Billboard Speech? May 08, 2023

Conference Conversations are Quick.

Here’s my 3-step Formula to get prepared.

Ever been at a conference, really wanted to meet someone you respected in your field, and then by the time you got face to face with them, it was like you forgot how to string two sentences together? Or worse, you...

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Avoid Getting Trapped in a False POV Feb 17, 2023

Leadership Lessons I've Learned from Writing Fiction

Along with coaching leaders I also write fiction. My middle grade novel, Keepers of the Pact, comes out this August with Nimbus Publishing.

The final stages of the editing process have been gruelling.

Most people have this storied idea of what...

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What's Your Take on "Quiet Quitting"? Sep 01, 2022

In the relative quiet of summer, a catch-phrase “quiet quitting” started trending. There are a myriad of articles already written about the subject. And while some describe Quiet Quitting as doing the bare minimum at work – only doing what’s asked – I like this...

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What happens when there’s a plot twist in your career story? Jan 06, 2022

Early on in the pandemic, I was faced with my own career story cliffhanger.

 

Like many professionals in 2020, my traditional way of business development and networking had dramatically shifted.

As the world temporarily closed its borders, I pressed pause and did what I often do when...

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How do you Lead a Successful Team? Nov 19, 2021
 

Know Your Why

For fun, I recently joined a women’s soccer team. My neighbor had been asking me to join for a couple of years, telling me how much fun it is. So I finally gave in and signed up.  And even though this is an over-45 team… in the Rec division…. with...

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Are You Back-to-Back-to Back? Avoid the Hybrid Burnout Oct 14, 2021

I was in the middle of writing a blog six months ago predicting an upward trend in the demand for team building. I paused to do a bit of research to back up my prediction. And then, like the movie Jumanji or more recently Free Guy, where Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds finds himself trapped in a...

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Are You Overdoing Your Strengths? How to Dial it Back Oct 23, 2020

Lately, I’ve become a bit obsessed with SPLAT points. It’s part of a tracking system at a gym I joined where you strap on a heart monitor that displays your progress on a large screen as a fitness coach challenges you to stay at a base pace (green zone), a push (orange zone)...

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Why is Delegating So Hard? Keep Your Delegation Radar Open to the "Who" Feb 09, 2020

To Delegate: a verb meaning to assign, to hand over or to entrust. I almost feel like I could end this column here. It’s so clear how this should work. To delegate is an action word. It’s a verb. Which means it only works if followed through. Otherwise, it...

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What's Your 30 Second Billboard (Elevator) Speech? Mar 29, 2018

In the first fifteen years of my career I worked in public relations. In my PR role I wrote a lot of news releases. There’s a formula for writing a news release that gets read and it starts with your lead — the first line. Your hook. After that your news pitch either gets...

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More Than You Can Chew? Make Values Based Decisions. Apr 04, 2017

Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean it’s your passion. 

I highly suspect that Lu is suffering from career burnout, but he isn’t your typical employee. Still, twice a day Lu goes to work performing at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. On one...

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Are You Caught in a Corporate Undercurrent? Jun 08, 2015

When you think about getting caught in an undercurrent, what comes to mind? For me, I’m reminded of a beach vacation in the Caribbean when I got caught in a nasty churn of ocean and sand that made me kiss the ground when I finally broke free of it!

On the surface, the ocean appeared fun and...

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