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The Emotional Office

A fellow coach who specializes in personal coaching mentioned to me that with her clients, she can always see emotions at play but that with corporate clients, she never could. I had to disagree with her. My whole world is corporate. I work in a corporation, have...

The Lonely Solopreneur

Your better half doesn’t want to hear another word about the business and none of your friends really understand what you do for a living. Their advice is often well meaning but grossly misplaced and pretty much useless. There is nowhere to turn, no one to vent to....

Make them weep!

You might be surprised to hear that I advise my clients to make their teams cry. As often as possible. That’s right, what I want for everyone is to actually experience what I have in giving the right kind of unexpected and well deserved acknowledgement to a member of...

What business should I start?

This question hounds so many people I meet. It seems that in this day and age of increased entrepreneurialism and the explosion in the number of small businesses; this is a very important question. Based on having answered this question for my own life and having...

10 Signs you might be restructured

Even in Canada where the economy doesn’t seem to be in as grave a crisis as the US, I have seen over 100 people of my personal acquaintance being restructured in the last 6 months. I myself have been restructured several times in my 15 year career. Both my...