Leadership Insights

Leadership Insights2023-01-05T17:35:27+00:00

A Letter to Boomers from a Gen X

Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are no longer the main generational cohort in the workplace. If you are in the workplace today, you have probably been deluged with generalizations about the cohort that came after my gang of [...]

A Letter to Millennials from a Gen X

As a Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980) I am sandwiched between Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) and Millennials (born somewhere between 1981 to 1995). I’ll often hear criticism about Millennials however I don’t have [...]

Promoting a Team Member to Manager? Consider this.

Meet Joan. Every business, if they are lucky, has at least one person like Joan. She is the steady, reliable expert. She delivers. She solves problems. She is unfailingly positive. Naturally, she is a prime candidate for promotion. [...]

Be THAT Person

Are you the person who can see what everyone else can’t see? What happens when you question the things that everyone says are “the way they are”? What does it mean to you, and to everyone with [...]

The Power of Questions

The ability to ask a great question is a critical leadership skill. The irony is that we’ve often been taught that we need to know the answers, particularly if we are in a leadership role. Finding the [...]

Use the “Stay interview” to retain staff.

Conversations with business leaders often include recounting their current struggles with recruitment and retention. Given today’s competitive labour market, these are two areas that are top of mind for many leaders. We recently wrote about 3 ingredients [...]

Good Things Come in Threes

In manufacturing, maintenance teams will perform preventive maintenance checks on the equipment needed to run production lines. The purpose of preventive maintenance is to assess a piece of equipment to ensure that it does not break down unexpectedly. [...]