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Workplace Productivity Tactics
In the pre-internet age, productivity was all about good time management. Intelligent planning was often all it took to accomplish everything on your to-do list and more. With the advent of email, social media and other technological distractions, the magnitude of...
The Surprising Ways Improv Can Impact Your Business
Drama, stand-up comedy, jazz music, freestyle rapping and business – what do these all have in common? They free you up to improvise. More often than not, improvisation is associated with things, yet improvisation is not a thing – it is a process of creating a thing....
Hear, hear! – The Importance of Being Heard
In parliaments across the globe, politicians shout, “hear, hear!”— and, no, it’s not “here, here”— as a form of verbal applause. It is a shortened version of the older “hear him, hear him!” and serves as a way to show approval of what another person is saying.In the...
Being Deliberate with Your Demeanor
Learn more about increasing leadership effectiveness through being deliberate about the mood you are setting out to create.
The Importance of Human Interaction
Learn more about the positive impact of utilizing more organic, live, authentic and rich forms of communication.
Explicitly Defining What You Do Not Believe In
Learn more about the positive impact of not only defining what your organization believes in, but also what it does not.
What Leaders can Learn from Kawhi Leonard
To paraphrase the great sports writer Cathal Kelly, it’s the personalities and drama that make sports truly interesting – often more than the winning or losing of the games themselves. Without great characters, who are often larger than life, watching sports can get...
Having the Freedom to Fail
Did you ever hear about the time that Google broke the Internet? It was a fine January morning in 2009 and as many folks arrived at work on the Eastern Seaboard, fired up their computers, and navigated to their favourite pre-Superbowl commentary, they were met with a...
Ian Robertson
Ian is the Executive Vice-President of Communication Strategy at Kingsdale Advisors, a leading shareholder services and advisory firm. He oversees Kingsdale’s strategic communications division with a focus on proactive communications, crisis management, and winning...
Moving Towards Flexible Work Cultures
A few years ago, I met with a manager at a Canadian telecommunications company. She was almost a year into her role and had not met the majority of her team members in person. Her direct reports were spread across Canada and communicated virtually – yet they...