So I continue with this weeks video blog where I left off last week, with some additional thoughts on what leadership is. I focus on how increasing your self-awareness as a key step to recognizing your own leadership style, understanding your values and building a vision… then go from…
What is Leadership?
What is Leadership? After a few weeks of posting written blog posts, I come back this week with a video to talk about some ideas and reflections on leadership informed by my faculty of managment students at UBCO… Part 2 next week John Whitehead coaches individuals and…
Keep Calm and… Attitude and Work Ethic
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” – Albert Einstein You’ve most likely heard the phrase, “Hire for attitude; you can always train and test for skills.” Hard skills for any job can usually be tested. A simple example would be for typing skills –you can measure a candidate’s…
Is Professionalism a Soft Skill?
“Soft Skills, or the ability to manage soft issues, is a challenge for modern leaders to master” Aly Moreno I received a comment from one of my most reliable blog post followers shortly after I started publishing this material in my blog. He stated, “…Soft Skills or the ability to…
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…