Mar 27, 2020

Working Well: 8 Recommendations To Be Productive Working From Home.

A friend asked me what my working from home recommendations were since I’ve been working from home for close to 20 years and also teach / speak on Time Management, Email Etiquette, Generational Differences and Leadership – not to mention consult about creating productive teams who work from home. So, here are my 8 recommendations to be productive working from home.

Mar 25, 2020

10 Quick Tips for Video Conversations

Video Conferencing and video conversations are gaining in popularity. They are a great way to improve communication, understand and a sense of team between two or more people. But are you being heard well and are people hearing you well? A few easy adjustments can help you sound professional and remove distractions for you and the people you are speaking with.

Mar 20, 2020

Working From Home Team Building Questions

If you are looking to create better team collaboration by including virtual team building, you’ve come to the right place. I have a list of 100… but for now I’m going to offer you 25 of my safe – not too personal virtual team building questions you can use at the beginning of team conference calls to help you build a trusting, connected remote team. Enjoy. Let me know your top 5 favourites.

Mar 13, 2020

An Employees Guide To Working From Home / Working Remotely

There is already lots of information that helps leaders change corporate culture to embrace working from home. At this time, I would like to offer some coaching and training tips to help everyday employees feel connected, be productive and most importantly be proud when they find themselves working remotely... or transitioning to a work from home / working remotely experience.

Feb 11, 2020

How To Host Your Perfect Meeting

I love when everyone walks out of meetings thinking, “Wow – that was productive. I wish every meeting could be like that.” To host your perfect meeting, start with a simple email that includes a few sentences that tell attendees ‘why’ they will want to go. Also share the goals, the projected outcomes and a short overview of how these outcomes will benefit them. The next steps are just as simple.

Feb 7, 2020

Effective Meeting Management: How to Run Effective Meetings

By wanting to help your team run effective meetings you’ll also be able to save time, save money, reduce waste, increase productivity… and improve your employees workplace satisfaction. Before learning more about training, I invite you to cut everyone who has hosted an insufferable meeting some slack. Why? Because no school I know of teaches an Effective Meeting Management 101 course.

Jan 17, 2020

10 Tips to Lead Your Team Through Change

Whether it is change for only one product line or change for the whole company, here are 10 of the many special places leaders need to pay attention to support change. One tip to start the discussion off is that communication will be your greatest ability.

Jan 2, 2020

4 Ways To Rediscover Your Passion

Nobody else has your unique combination of experiences, natural strengths, education, learned skills and creativity. Unfortunately routine has a way of derailing our bigger plans at work and at home. Here are 4 ways to rediscover your passion that i’ve found has helped my clients... and of course... myself. Enjoy.

Dec 12, 2019

An Introduction to Agile Project Management Methodology

Agile Project Management is a great solution for everyone involved to experience the benefits of the development investment in a short period of time. One core attributes shared in this introduction to Agile Project Management is the willingness of the project team to keep customers informed and to quickly adjust goals, tactics and resources mid-project in response to feedback customers provide.