How are you really doing when it comes to hiring?

How are you really doing when it comes to hiring?

It’s rare that a company will ever look at its hiring effectiveness except when someone was a critically bad hire, or they left early, and you’re not exactly sure why. As compared to the metrics around sales performance, profit per sale, customer turnover etc., taking...
Leadership and Communication Go Hand-in-Hand

Leadership and Communication Go Hand-in-Hand

Many leaders think they’re doing a terrific job of communicating with their teams, but leaders fall short in all sorts of ways, as shown in the graph below from “The Top Complaint’s from Employees About Their Leaders” survey. In my role as facilitator between company...
It’s Stories That Galvanise Your Employees

It’s Stories That Galvanise Your Employees

In your company’s journey there is nothing more important than the creation of your own unique story that people will care about. Simply put, people need the sense that what they’re doing matters! Over the years, businesses have set goals for their employees and teams...
10 Ways to Uncover Leadership Potential Within Your Company

10 Ways to Uncover Leadership Potential Within Your Company

I was about 26 years old and was a ‘hotshot’ salesperson within a great computer distribution/financing company. We were doing very well, times were good and I was sitting down with the President one day. ‘We’re looking to open an office in Montreal and we’d like you...