I get it. You’re simply relieved that all the staff that went to your global team building retreat returned, that Abdullah didn’t fight too much with Andy and you managed to not have anyone break out in hives or have any other kind of allergic reaction, given all the food preferences your team … [Read more...] about Post-Retreat Tips: How to Sustain Your Global Team’s Teambuilding Success
Conflicts - between nations, within nations, amongst people. Climate change. Financial challenges. Racism. Poverty. Gender-based violence. Sometimes it’s enough to make you want to hide under a blanket for the next decade. Or at least to feel deeply weary in the very marrow of your … [Read more...] about The best way to start your day? Whelmed of course.
As I mentioned in Part One, recently, I had the pleasure of working with an intercultural team that spanned the globe, and let me tell you, it was a journey full of insights, laughs, and a bunch of aha moments. It also included some conflict, misunderstanding, and distrust between team … [Read more...] about How to Manage Conflict: 10 Insights from a Global Team Building, Part Two
Welcome to another adventure in the world of team building. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with an intercultural team that spanned the globe, and let me tell you, it was a journey full of insights, laughs, and a bunch of aha moments. It also included some conflict, … [Read more...] about How to Manage Conflict: 10 Insights from a Global Team Building Part One
Grab a cozy seat, perhaps a cup of your favorite beverage, and let’s dive into the fascinating world of perception and perspective. Now, before your eyes glaze over at the thought of a philosophical deep dive, I promise to keep it light, engaging, and yes, a tad bit funny. The Basics: Perception … [Read more...] about Perception vs. Perspective: A Slightly Funny, Slightly Serious Look at How We See the World
Earlier this year I launched a new year-long project. Past projects have induced getting rid of three things every day for as it turned out, two years, making handmade watercolour cards and writing a note of gratitude to someone every week, for again, what turned out to be two years. This year … [Read more...] about Update on my year-long anti-racism project (join me won’t you?!)
Regular readers know I’m a huge fan of tech tools. If your eyebrows just climbed to meet your hairline, because tech tools generally make you want to vomit, let me explain. I love tech tools that are: I love tech tools so much that I make it a goal to try a new one each … [Read more...] about No Boo hoo here. Goblin tech tools for neurodiversity
Ready to revolutionize your approach to working with your team? (Yes I know the term ‘revolutionize’ is overused but in this case it’s really true.) Mike Michalowicz’s "All In - How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams" presents a game-changing concept: the Personal Operating Manual … [Read more...] about Creating Your Unique Personal Operating Manual with Mike Michalowicz’s “All In”
I was squirming in my seat, bored and restless. I’d signed up for a course on Excel despite my better judgment. Why was I restless and resorting to kicking myself? The course was held in a ballroom. There must have been at least 200 people present. There was one … [Read more...] about What an Excel Workshop Painfully Taught Me about Just Do It
Sweaty palms. A million butterflies tossing around in your stomach, threatening to escape out of your mouth. Your tongue feels like it's wearing a sweater made of sandpaper. Your voice is wavery and quavery. And most of all a looming sense of dread, with a … [Read more...] about Unlock Your Voice: Strategies for Powerful Public Speaking
I love to putter. I love when I’m in those syrupy, sweet, moments of flow when clocks don’t exist and time just unravels. It was in one of those moments that I was digging through my bookcase, specifically the shelf that holds my unread books. And there, I found this … [Read more...] about Sweat Your Prayers: Gabrielle Roth’s hidden power of movement
I love it when readers give their suggestions and ask questions. Like when Manuela emailed me asking if I knew of any low-budget, easy onboarding tools. (I cut this sign out of a newspaper ages ago and have always thought it was such an incredible example of welcoming or even in our case, … [Read more...] about How to use virtual escape rooms as an engaging, effective onboarding tool
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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