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This past month, I have had numerous requests for courses on the critical soft skills that we often overlook- communications, leadership, team building, how to deal with the press, etc. Unfortunately many organizations do not think that these are important until a crisis occurs or until it is a “do or die” situation with an… Continue Reading »

As we move into the month of March, it is a good time to think of all of those summer days ahead when we will have more time to spend outdoors. The most common question these days is “so how are you going to spend your summer holidays?” Have you any planned yet? Last month… Continue Reading »

The past month has moved very quickly for a lot of people as things seem to be moving faster and faster every year. Do you ever get the impression that things are moving too fast for comfort in your professional and business lives? How are you dealing with that? Do you have a plan? Strategic… Continue Reading »

I was thinking of the inevitable question that everyone asks at this time of year- what is your New Year’s Resolution. I heard a great description of a New Year’s resolution the other day- “ a promise that I intend to keep for the next 30 days!” How true is that. So here are some… Continue Reading »

One of the great groups that I am involved with is the North Peace Literacy Alliance. At this month’s meeting, I was please to review a presentation prepared by Clarice Eckford, the Fort St John Literacy Outreach Coordinator on workplace health and literacy. Here are some interesting points from this presentation: In a recent study… Continue Reading »

A couple of subjects this month- more on emails and some on handling stress. Both are related to each other and I am convinced more times than enough that email can add significant stress to one’s day – through the content, numbers and frequency. I recently heard of an interesting innovation dealing with emails- no… Continue Reading »

I had a discussion recently on dress and appearance in the workplace, I thought that I would devote this month’s newsletter to how we look when are in public and in particular at work. This is a continuing discussion amongst professionals and has evolved over the past few years. So I beg your forgiveness if… Continue Reading »

The topic this month is Social Media. Now I know that some of you may feel that this is a trend and have not been keeping up but have you really looked at how other organizations and individuals have really stated to use social media for their businesses or organizations? The world today is moving… Continue Reading »

The theme of my newsletter this month is “leadership”. There are many definitions of this great word that anyone cans Google, etc. But the real meaning of leadership is within us all and I have seen a lot of defining moments of leadership over the years. Now there are lots of examples of poor leadership… Continue Reading »

Last month I wrote on keeping that inbox clean. Thanks to you who sent me more tips on handling the great email load and I am going to share “round two” of tips to keep your sanity while dealing with emails. So here goes: Use the preview screen more often so that you can see… Continue Reading »