A Grandmother can be such a huge beacon of love, right? The best ones always are. Pretty soon, you will be planning whether or not to budget and spend on Christmas. We can both agree that COVID has changed so many aspects of our lives. I have a cool idea for your Christmas giving …
Sexy? Business? Customers?
Can you articulate the sexiest result or results that you get from your customer base? No — I am not talking about the fact that 98% pay their bills on time. (Yes, cash flow is indeed incredible. But that is not the sexiest result.) Let me give you a hint. There is not one but …
Connection? How Deep is Yours?
Years ago, the Bee Gees wrote the song, How Deep is Your Love? and yes, it became a massive hit. It is a song about really getting to know that special someone in our lives. Last week I had an aha moment about all our friends, connections, and acquaintances outside of our close inner circle. …
8 COVID Crisis Opportunities
The COVID Crisis is really changing things up right now, isn’t it? I want to keep it really short this week. Because I just read an amazing report. One, I gotta share immediately with you. The Royal Bank of Canada (the largest in our country) has just released an amazing piece of analysis and education …
An Interviewing Hack that Delivers
The whole interviewing process has become such a canned exercise these days. We all have standard questions. Worse, the smarter candidates have practiced and come in very prepared with such smooth delivery. Frankly, some candidates can be so frustrating. Our questions don’t necessarily yield honest answers. The BS factor can be very high. And some …
The Art of a Good Hire (Hint: it is not the resume)
There is such a large unemployment rate today and a groundswell of resume circulation. Thank you, COVID. Yet I still see and hear the usual hew and cry about how employers are having a tough time finding good help. That there is a huge shortage of decent employees. And that we need the government to …
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People, People, People Part 1
It is now six months of living with this pandemic and doing things differently. Lately, I have been doing a bunch of interviews on my favourite topic. People Leadership. So, this entire month, I will share some of the things I firmly believe, I personally have had awesome hardcore results with and that I …
Gimme Some Loving?
Have you ever listened to any Spencer Davis Group music? (They were a UK band formed in 1963 and lasted about six years.) One of their massive hits was the Gimme Some Loving song. I fell in love with that song more than twenty years after it was released. The chorus goes like this. So …
A True Confession About Trust and Action
I hope you took action and read the trust report I shared with you last week. (Here it is again if you did not get a chance.) It is stunning. Today I want to share a backstory about me, the generational divide, and how the young people of today are way smarter than even we …
Using the Good from COVID Time
Time management is a real thing, isn’t it? I bet you have been thinking a lot about this COVID thing. Me too. I’ve been mulling over the pros and cons of the whole crisis and as is my inclination, trying to concentrate on the best parts. Family, relationships, what’s really important, finding and filling the …