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Would A Business Coach Have Helped BCW?

Would A Business Coach Have Helped BCW?

Tackling business including how to achieve goals, set priorities and improve skills is often helped by a great cup of coffee (or tea or juice). As a business/career coach, I sometimes treat clients and colleagues, as I advise them on many career and management issues....

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Dragons’ Den Interview With Brian Epstein

Dragons’ Den Interview With Brian Epstein

As featured on Dragons' Den I was recently interviewed by Dragons' Den for my expertise on working with friends. Here is the article they published. Working with a friend seems like a logical and fun proposition. A friendship at work (a “workship,” if you will) can...

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Need Help With Leadership Skills? Learn Emotional Intelligence

Need Help With Leadership Skills? Learn Emotional Intelligence

Developing your leadership skills has to do with many things – including Emotional Intelligence (E.I.). It’s no mystery. E.I. is a powerful tool and behaviour that will help you achieve business goals and improve your leadership skills. Forbes Magazine calls E.I. ‘the...

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Help Achieve Your Goals With Brand Identity

Help Achieve Your Goals With Brand Identity

As a business coach, one of the many that things I discuss with clients is how to achieve your goals within the framework of your company name and identity. I often have to get one fact out of the way first – that, yes, my given name is the same as the famous manager...

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Just in Time for Halloween: Inside of Those Insights!

Just in Time for Halloween: Inside of Those Insights!

As stores pile up with costumes and masks for Halloween, I think about how we often go through life not knowing what’s under a disguise. It’s more than having our hands in the no-sugar-added candy pail, and thinking, “Gee, if I knew for sure that was Jim’s kid, I’d...

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It’s A Match: The Story of Business Matchmaking

It’s A Match: The Story of Business Matchmaking

The other day, I read about the recent Power of 4 Event, in Pointe Claire, QC, run by motivational sales analyst Marcie Balaban of the website Let's Get Going. She brings entrepreneurs and upper management of companies together in a way that is business matchmaking....

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Why You Should Job Search in the Summer

Why You Should Job Search in the Summer

Summer is here and many of us are enjoying the sunny weather. It's time to relax and enjoy for sure. Just because it's the summer, though, you can't completely forget about work. If you are searching for new opportunities, you still need to do career research and...

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Promoting from Line Functions

Promoting from Line Functions

We all know them - and most of us have worked them in some capacity. I remember working with sales professionals who have been promoted to be sales managers.  They made great sales and brought in a lot of revenue for the company.  However, they were not very...

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Career Search for A New Business Professional to Canada

Career Search for A New Business Professional to Canada

Sometimes, a business professional who moves to Canada can have challenges finding work. Last September, a new client started to work with me.  He had immigrated to Canada from California, USA to Canada 7 months earlier.  He had a very established career in corporate...

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Successful Work Search Needs Effective Project Management

Successful Work Search Needs Effective Project Management

Over the years, I have worked with many project managers as their career coach. The key 5 components for project manager were shared with me by several project managers when I worked at a recent Toronto Chapter Career Day Event. Subsequent coaching meetings with PMI...

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Would A Business Coach Have Helped BCW?

Would A Business Coach Have Helped BCW?

Tackling business including how to achieve goals, set priorities and improve skills is often helped by a great cup of coffee (or tea or juice). As a business/career coach, I sometimes treat clients and colleagues, as I advise them on many career and management issues....

read more
Dragons’ Den Interview With Brian Epstein

Dragons’ Den Interview With Brian Epstein

As featured on Dragons' Den I was recently interviewed by Dragons' Den for my expertise on working with friends. Here is the article they published. Working with a friend seems like a logical and fun proposition. A friendship at work (a “workship,” if you will) can...

read more
Need Help With Leadership Skills? Learn Emotional Intelligence

Need Help With Leadership Skills? Learn Emotional Intelligence

Developing your leadership skills has to do with many things – including Emotional Intelligence (E.I.). It’s no mystery. E.I. is a powerful tool and behaviour that will help you achieve business goals and improve your leadership skills. Forbes Magazine calls E.I. ‘the...

read more
Help Achieve Your Goals With Brand Identity

Help Achieve Your Goals With Brand Identity

As a business coach, one of the many that things I discuss with clients is how to achieve your goals within the framework of your company name and identity. I often have to get one fact out of the way first – that, yes, my given name is the same as the famous manager...

read more
Just in Time for Halloween: Inside of Those Insights!

Just in Time for Halloween: Inside of Those Insights!

As stores pile up with costumes and masks for Halloween, I think about how we often go through life not knowing what’s under a disguise. It’s more than having our hands in the no-sugar-added candy pail, and thinking, “Gee, if I knew for sure that was Jim’s kid, I’d...

read more
It’s A Match: The Story of Business Matchmaking

It’s A Match: The Story of Business Matchmaking

The other day, I read about the recent Power of 4 Event, in Pointe Claire, QC, run by motivational sales analyst Marcie Balaban of the website Let's Get Going. She brings entrepreneurs and upper management of companies together in a way that is business matchmaking....

read more
Why You Should Job Search in the Summer

Why You Should Job Search in the Summer

Summer is here and many of us are enjoying the sunny weather. It's time to relax and enjoy for sure. Just because it's the summer, though, you can't completely forget about work. If you are searching for new opportunities, you still need to do career research and...

read more
Promoting from Line Functions

Promoting from Line Functions

We all know them - and most of us have worked them in some capacity. I remember working with sales professionals who have been promoted to be sales managers.  They made great sales and brought in a lot of revenue for the company.  However, they were not very...

read more
Career Search for A New Business Professional to Canada

Career Search for A New Business Professional to Canada

Sometimes, a business professional who moves to Canada can have challenges finding work. Last September, a new client started to work with me.  He had immigrated to Canada from California, USA to Canada 7 months earlier.  He had a very established career in corporate...

read more
Successful Work Search Needs Effective Project Management

Successful Work Search Needs Effective Project Management

Over the years, I have worked with many project managers as their career coach. The key 5 components for project manager were shared with me by several project managers when I worked at a recent Toronto Chapter Career Day Event. Subsequent coaching meetings with PMI...

read more