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Embracing Change for Employees and Leaders

I had the privilege of presenting, with Gerik Kimble, the keynote presentation at Washington State University’s (WSU) inaugural Elevating Cougs conference, “Embracing Change for Employees and Leaders.” This fun, easy-going presentation shares how embracing change benefits you along with practical advice for how to manage change for your teams. Watch the presentation below or read […]

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Is the Apple Watch Worth it? Thoughts from a Former Skeptic

Is Apple’s watch worth it? Yes. I use it to track my habits and exercise and when to give my cat and dog their pills. The timer reminds me to switch off the garden sprinkler or hang out the laundry, and the little red notification dot – or lack thereof – helps me reduce my […]

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Use The Get Engagement Checklist to Increase Engagement with Your Apps, Leadership and Social Media

Engagement. We want it, but don’t always give it. Companies want us to buy and engage with their apps. Managers want us to engage and be productive, and we want our social media followers to engage with our content. So, why is it, when faced with two products that do the same thing, we gravitate […]

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3 Powerful Steps to Becoming an Exceptional Leader

Exceptional leaders help their team be proud of the work they do and ensures their team has a voice and are heard. The result? The team, and you, hit your goals and targets because of your excellent leadership. How you get there is by building support for your ideas and processes, and building trust between […]

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Practical Change Management: Generate Buy-in & Excitement

Practical Change Management is a fun mix of people, process, and storytelling. What makes it satisfying is the people you are helping, become more confident and better able to do their jobs because of your efforts. How you get people to their happy place and excited about the change initiative is by providing the right […]

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Better Project Management: Organize & Guide, Do & Deliver

Let’s start with a question: what is project management? Is it a never-ending series of templates and dashboards, beloved of faceless bureaucrats with clip-boards, or is it a repeatable framework that facilitates project work and encourages the successful delivery of an end product? It’s really the latter, but many see it as the former. At […]

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5 Ways Ethical Leaders Solve Problems

Ethical leadership is the ability to have people follow you and trust your ideas. Not through coercion or manipulation, but through positive actions and the care you take of those around you. A formal definition could be: ethical leadership is influencing those around you through your own positive behaviours. This article explains what ethical leadership […]

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Develop the Be Helpful Keystone Habit and Transform Your Problem Solving Skills

A keystone habit is a powerful habit that positively impacts everything you do. Picture an artist at their desk, the paint splattered surface overflowing with bottles and tubes, pens and sketches. Their creative habit impacts the way they feel—relaxed when painting, frustrated when they can’t—the clothes they wear and how they hold their brushes and […]

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Ask the Right Questions: 2 Problem Solving Questions that Make the Difference

To solve a problem, we need to understand the root cause, then define and deliver a solution. And that starts when you ask the right questions. In a pivotal scene in the science fiction movie I, Robot, the hero, Detective Del Spooner, must ask a hologram a series of questions(5). The answers Spooner receives will […]

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4 Tips to Help You Think and Act Differently

The first step to solving problems is to think and act differently than before. It can be a small action, like moving your to-do list to an app in place of your sticky notes that no longer stick and get lost. Or it could be significant, like changing jobs or careers. Either way, and for […]

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Use Your Positive Intelligence (PQ) and Awareness Quotient (AQ) to Take Your Results to the Next Level [Guide]

What is Positive Intelligence and your Awareness Quotient? Your Awareness Quotient (AQ) is your ability to reflect on your thoughts and actions without judgement or bias or negative feelings. AQ enables you to practice self-awareness with compassion towards yourself. Falguni Katira, author and Transformational Coach, describes self-awareness as, “… knowing not only who you are, […]

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Leadership Lessons and an Ethics Question From My Trip to Australia’s Outback [4 Tips]

We can find leadership lessons in the unlikeliest of places. The most powerful have come not from management books, but from watching people go about their jobs in industries different from mine. Are they someone others look up to? Do they enjoy the work they’re doing? Why do they do things the way they do? […]