by Hugh MacPhie | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture
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...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jul 23, 2019 | Culture
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...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jul 16, 2019 | Culture
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...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jun 13, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
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...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jun 4, 2019 | Culture
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...
by Hugh MacPhie | May 31, 2019 | Culture, Leadership, Strategy
What Really Motivates Your Employees Have you ever been so disengaged at work that you completely neglect your underlying responsibility as a professional? Attracting and hiring top talent, explained by Jim Collins as “getting the right people on the bus” is a...
