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Reengagement 180

22 August 2016

Turn around your leadership and your life in 180 seconds. Each week, inspiring and innovative ideas that will help you and your organization reengage with your respective “Best Self.” Subscribe on Stitcher Radio, or listen to the latest episode below.

The Lesson of Grace and Learned Hopefulness

6 January 2023

Mark

Coaching, Gratitude, Intention, Motivation, Opportunity, TikToks

One of my clients recently told me an amazing story and I want to share it with you because it contains an important lesson of how you can help to change the world. My client is a very successful…

Eulogy—Trumpets Herald the Passing of Nobility

6 January 2023

Mark

Everything else, Gratitude, Opportunity, TikToks

“Trumpets herald the passing of nobility.” As if on cue, a flock of hundreds of geese passed overhead all honking in a cacophony of nature’s fanfare immediately after my brother concluded his eulogy for our sister at her graveside. …

Promoting Yourself is an Invitation to Others

22 November 2022

Mark

Appreciative practices, Career, Coaching, Opportunity, Performance, TikToks

This may be the message that you need to hear today, and it came courtesy of a client who has been struggling with promoting himself and his offerings. He told me that he somehow feels reluctant to market and promote…

How to “Predict” the Future

10 November 2022

Mark

Anticipating the Future, Complexity, TikToks

I’ve been thinking about making this TikTok for a while now. It’s all about “predicting” the future. But more realistically, it’s about avoiding the so-called unanticipated or unavoidable consequences of decisions we’re about to make. I do a fair…

How to Deal with a Workplace Bully – Part 2

3 November 2022

Mark

Career, Coaching, TikToks, Workplace

As we saw in part 1, a client came to me complaining about bullying behaviour in the workplace. The key to dealing with the bully is to recount the facts of the behaviour and the effect it had on you.…

How to Deal with a Workplace Bully – Part 1

3 November 2022

Mark

Career, Coaching, TikToks, Workplace

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A client came to me with a complaint. One of the partners in their company was dumping onerous assignments on them with very little time to do them, trashing their work so that it is unrecognizable, taking credit for their…

How to Hire the Right Person & Ensure that You’re that Person

25 October 2022

Mark

Career, Hiring, TikToks, Valence Theory

If you’ve ever been hired for any sort of job, you know that hiring managers look for two, specific things: First, qualifications that match those of the job description and second, how closely your past experience matches what the job…

Intention and the Grind

20 October 2022

Mark

Career, Coaching, Engagement, Intention, Leadership, Motivation, TikToks

Has your work become a grind? Here’s how to make it less grinding. I met today with a long-term client who mentioned that they are going on a retreat to reconnect with their spirituality. That’s a great thing to do from…

Why Does Hockey Matter? It’s the Leadership

17 October 2022

Mark

Leadership, Management, TikToks

Hockey has been in the headlines over the last couple of months and not just because the Leafs are now on the way to another massive Toronto sports disappointment. As pretty much everyone in Canada knows by now, Hockey Canada,…

Is Quiet Quitting Merely Work-Life Balance? No, More Like Work-Life Integration

29 September 2022

Mark

Career, Motivation, Performance, Quiet Quitting, TikToks

From where did we ever get this notion of work-life balance? It goes back to that 20th-century management myth that, your life is your life, but your work belongs to us. In fact, you belong to us when you’re at…