To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who failed his final exam. To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of one week: Ask the editor of a weekly newspaper. To realize the…
What is “Leadership” to you?
This is a question that I will ask students when I start teaching the Leadership in Complex Environments course at UBC Okanagan this coming academic year. My goal is to have the 4th year Faculty of Management students think about, reflect on, and research this question. In doing so my…
The BIG Three Coaching Topics
Over the past almost two years of coaching, I have identified three specific areas that have arisen from working with my clients. Three coaching areas consistently come to the fore. They are: Interpersonal Communications Skills, Time Management and Values. As I coach clients, it doesn’t matter what their roles, occupations…
Believe in yourself
I just bought Kouzes’ & Posner’s latest book, Learning Leadership (Wiley). I have written in this space previously that they, along with other leadership experts, tell us that leadership is something that can be learned, that we are all born with the ability to lead and that we are already…
The Words We Use Have Meaning
Last week I wrote about how words have power; about how they have both a direct and, more often, an indirect way of impacting our emotions, and how we see the world. I used the example of phrases we often use and the messages those phrases can send, either negative…