This week’s video Blog post explores poor communication in the workplace, which can lead to misunderstandings, confusion, and a lack of trust. It breeds an environment of secrecy and suspicion, hindering collaboration and causing frequent conflicts and mistakes. I provide some examples of how deal to deal with this challenge
Are Soft Skills Learned or Inborn?
Soft Skills: Nature or Nurture? Are you born with them or are they learned? It’s the old chicken and the egg argument, which comes first? A quick review of the discussion in the research reveals the consensus that we are born with these skills, but like any other, they…
Do you have the Soft Skills Required to be Successful?
Why is it that soft skills seem to have become the newest and latest “big” thing? Weren’t they always important and necessary? However, I’m noticing more and more articles and posts focused on the need to increase soft skill training and development, which in turn suggests at least the perception…
Taking a Chance on Coaching – Video Case Study
Derek Hodgins is the CEO of High Roller Games, a local games company based in Kelowna BC. They specialize in making custom games for big brands like Trailer Park Boys, Vikings and Bob Marley. Derek states that it was always a dream job to be able to go ahead and…