With this the shift to the new Work from Home and Hybrid work environments, companies are concerned about how they can keep the consistency in their employee experience and ensure that new employees are onboarded into their cultures effectively. Here are three great examples of...
As we discussed in part one of this post, there are certain conditions that exist that enhance a leader’s success in using a coach approach. But because a leader is first and foremost responsible to deliver organizational results through team members, it still remains that...
Christmas is an exciting time of year that very often sees us rushing to the malls, trying to find that perfect gift for the special someone(s) in our lives. Giving to those we care about brings joy, laughter, and an appreciation for what we have. And...
Common advice to today’s leaders: be emotionally intelligent and avoid using an authoritarian style, opting for a coaching style instead. Personally, every time we talk about coaching as an approach for leaders who have “line” responsibilities, I have a double-sided reaction – I get excited...
We’ve been told one of the major reasons people want to work with us – they want our culture in their culture. We work hard as individuals and as a team to live our values and help each other work within our boundaries. We came across...
I was recently chatting with a colleague about one of my favorite topics, Organizational Culture; what it is? How does it form? What elements make some stand out against others? How does it bring out the best in people? Or how might it limit people’s potential? To me,...
Eight years ago, before I came to work at ViRTUS, I fell into an exciting job. The head office is in Waterloo, Ontario and I live in Vancouver. They needed a facilitator on the West Coast and so I had the much coveted clause in...
Think back to a time when you reacted to a situation in a way that you thought afterwards “I wish I wouldn’t have behaved like that”. It could have been when you were at a job interview and you panicked and got confused so the potential...
av·a·tar ˈavəˌtär/noun- Computing - an icon or figure representing a particular person in computer games, Internet forums, etc. Had you told me five years ago that I would be facilitating leadership development programs as a virtual ‘avatar’ in a 3-D gaming environment, I would have been amused...
Tough leaders get more from their employees. Is this true? Sure, successful leaders need to hold people accountable, set high standards, push for stringent monitoring of failures as well as successes and often, make wrenchingly painful decisions. But is tough, enough? Recent research by Jack Zenger...