This week a post arrived through one of my LinkedIn groups with the question: “What are the group’s thoughts about the most challenging aspect of leadership?” I love being confronted with these types of posts because they make me stop and think. I don’t always respond to them but…
Lessons Learnt
In my previous post I recounted how I learned some important lessons from my personal search into leadership. I talked about how a number of years ago, I had become the “golden boy” within my organization. Everything was working for me, the region I was managing was the number one…
Leadership & Acts of God
This past week I attended the Art of Leadership conference in Vancouver. Among the five speakers was Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City during the 9/11 attacks, and Time’s 2001 Person of the year. Early in his speech he said something that resonated with me. He told the story…
A Change is as Good as a ……
I have made a commitment to myself to try and write a weekly post for linkedIn. See, I have already given myself an out by saying that the commitment is to “try and write”. What I am coming up against is what to write about. My first post came from…
A Helium Stick experience with Handbell Ringers
I had a very interesting experience recently while facilitating the Helium Stick activity with a Handbell Choir. The choir had come together for a day long, start-of-season retreat. To start off the day I was asked to have the choir participate in the Helium Stick exercise. For those of…