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This Is Why Your Employees Are Leaving

May 17, 2013 - Adrian Davis

A leader’s job is to secure a safe, productive, and even enjoyable workplace. A great strategy will be useless without a reliable workforce to enact it. A great product will never reach customers without a satisfied workforce. A leader needs to rely on his or her team, as…

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Social Relevance: Improving Your Signal-to-Noise Ratio

May 17, 2013 - Randall Craig

No one cares about you – they care about how you can solve their problems. Write for your readers. These two expressions epitomize the most important marketing (and social media) concept: relevance. How often have you seen a post, picture, tweet, or comment that adds z…

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Life Without Exclamation Marks

May 17, 2013 - Stephanie Staples

If you had to write the story of your life and the title of the story was called “My Life” – how many exclamation marks would be appropriate to put at the end?  One, two, none? I have recently started taking a writing course. One may think I should have st…

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Time to LILO

May 16, 2013 - Barry Lewis Green

This past Monday, Joel Sweeney (www.joelsweeney.com) and I launched the first ever MoMondays in St. John’s.  If you want to know more about MoMondays check out www.momondays.com.  Suffice it to say, I call it the democratization of inspiration.  Six speakers, profession…

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A yo-yo versus a pendulum: a metaphor for leadership

May 16, 2013 - Merge Gupta-Sunderji

Dr. Michelle May is my professional colleague, and a physician who focuses on mindful eating.  Her entire philosophy is to get people to shift their thinking from yo-yo dieting to a more gradual approach.  “The problem with the metaphor of a yo-yo is that are only tw…

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Live webcast: Essentials of Exceptional Leadership

May 21, 2013 - Merge Gupta-Sunderji

The great folks at PDNet and CGA Canada have invited me to deliver a live webinar “Essentials of Exceptional Leadership” later this week on Thursday May 23, 2013 at 9 AM Pacific Standard Time. If you’ve never attended a live webcast before, it’s a gre…

Pratique de gestion, erreur no.3 : manque de gestion participative

May 20, 2013 - Ghislaine Labelle

Suite : Les pratiques de gestion qui nuisent à votre capital de leadership Erreur no. 3 : manque de gestion participative Lorsqu’un gestionnaire ne fait pas assez appel aux talents de son équipe, quel effet cela peut-il induire chez ses collaborateurs ? Est-il préfér…

Trust Me? (WARNING: This May Shock You)

May 20, 2013 - Marion Grobb Finkelstein

Between you me and the lamp post, tell me -- do you trust your boss? How about your colleagues? Or your employees? It was over 15 years ago I learned an important lesson about trust. At the time, I was a newly appointed Director of Communication and Promotions and just ge…

Living Without Mental Illness

May 18, 2013 - Stephanie Staples

I ran into a classmate from grade school the other day – he was someone who had a tough time in many ways at school. As we chatted, I asked him where he lived and his answer shocked me, “The Salvation Army, I’ve been having some issues with depression but I…
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