If reading about teenage vampires, makes us believe that our teeth are longer, (a parasocial relationship), does that mean that the stories we tell ourselves about not being good enough, not worthy or stupid a.k.a. #4amMeanGirl, are parasitic relationships, sucking us dry? — Well, IMHO there is an argument to be made. From Feeling Vulnerable to Moving Into Empowerment Recently, I had the honor of coaching some amazingly dynamic, top-of-their class, well, for lack of a better word, overachievers. …

🎢 What is your favorite ride at an amusement park? — Is it a🎢 or 🎡 or 🎠 or maybe 🚂 ? 🎢 What is it about that ride that gets you all positively jittery with excitement? 🎢 Now think about talent development, respectively career development, now answer honestly … 🎢 Do you have the same sense of excited anticipation … or does it rather fill you with 👹 trepidation? Well, in my not so humble opinion, career growth should be exhilarating — not debilitating. So what is getting in the way of the positive excitement?

A-Maze 2022, does it feel like that already? Perfect timing then! Firstly, let’s dive into the backstory behind the A-Maze 2022 Transformation Passport with a simple question: Can Transformation Be Meme-able? By fostering fulfillment at work, a real connection between one’s personal purpose and meaningful work, ownership and accountability as a team… you get…

Back in May 2020, fairly at the beginning of the pandemic, McKinsey and Oxford Economics, time boxed the virus and the economic shock into two key imperatives: Safeguard our lives (read: our vitality) Safeguard our livelihoods (read: our viability) Albeit, what they neglected to plot onto their graph was the…

“You don’t need to understand it, you just need to show it.” Ah, the sentence that summed up my bane with sine and cosine back when I was taking Trig as a 8th grader. (Oddly, I never had the same problem with tangent but lest I digress). …

YES/NO Question: Are the # of connections representative of feeling a sense belonging? I asked this question during a #WRBC Lunch and Learn leadership session for a customer. I received a very clear answer of “No” from the participants. …

Let yourself feel — but do not dwell or mope? “We are trying to give the world positive ways of dealing with their feelings” said Fred Rogers aka Mr. Rogers, “The best thing we can do is let people know each one of them is precious.” We are told on the one hand to mourn the loss of the loved…

Pretty much overnight, the monumental shift of a large proportion of a company’s workforce is working remotely and being dispersed. Something long-hailed as something that is coming, became our new reality as folks were encouraged / forced to stay home. From my friends I heard examples of how companies quickly…

Ah, the annual performance review process. A much debated, time-honoured tradition meant to accelerate performance via focused goal-setting, and well, if there is time, constructive feedforward/feedback between an employee and their manager in order to enable motivated employees at peak performance aligned with the company’s overall strategic goals. Whew! At…