Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the sheep (it is a goat actually but that's just being picky) and it reminds me of the story of my husband and I on his farm in New Zealand. On the farm there are cows and sheep (and a few wild deer but Read More >>
Strength in Numbers
Imagine a bamboo stick. It's a pretty hard substance. I mean, you wouldn't want to be caned with it, would you? But even though it is strong, if you put it in a river and stand on it, the strength of the bamboo wouldn't hold you up, Read More >>
5 Ways We Sabotage Ourselves
Probably the first thing that came to your mind when you read "sabotage" is procrastination so that's the one I'm not going to cover. Why? Because there's a simple solution. Schedule it and get it done. Now on to the other 5 ways we sabotage Read More >>
Broken Resolutions
Do you set New Year's Resolutions? I do. Well sort of. I don't actually call them New Year's Resolutions. I call them FLOW Goals and they are part of the Strategic Planning I do each year. This year, I was determined to get one of my personal Read More >>
Leadership Self-Discipline
I've noticed a few people around me who claim to be leaders in their given field display an amazing lack of self-discipline. The details are irrelevant. What is relevant is the behaviour. What I was noticing were these self-professed leadership Read More >>
One Step at a Time
I was in a wheelchair when I got off the plane. I had been in a skiing accident and I fractured my tibia plateau & tore both my ACLs (ligament in your knee). I had 2 separate surgeries and had been in a wheelchair for two months. I returned Read More >>
Big Picture or Detail
I have a friend who told me a story about making a conscious decision to let his boss fail. You see, he was in charge of an event for his organization and the person assigned to handle registrations on the day of the event was called away on a Read More >>
Don’t choke on the feedback sandwich
In my corporate program, Coaching for High Performance, I emphasize the importance of getting rid of the "feedback sandwich" and sticking to the 4-1 rule. For those of you who have never used or been given a feedback sandwich, it sounds something Read More >>
I’m Just Trying to Help!
I like helping people. That’s why I do what I do. And I can’t help people that don’t want to be helped no matter how frustrating it is for me to see someone else struggle. Take my husband. We’re in a car in Malaysia and he’s having problems Read More >>
Is Maturity Less Common than Common Sense?
I read a story in Fortune Magazine about the changes brought on by the Gen Y workforce. What I read made me want to puke! The story was about a graduate of a prestigious US university who had accepted a job with the leading accountancy firm. And Read More >>