by Hugh MacPhie | Apr 11, 2024 | Leadership
Mental Health in the Workplace – How Can We Help? “It is a weird time right now…” We hear this a lot lately – from rising prices of just about everything, to an over-capacity healthcare system, to the continued and lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 26, 2024 | Leadership, Team Development
Board Orientation Done Differently If you’ve been on a Board, it’s likely that you’ve sat through a Board Orientation session, read a Board Orientation package or – worse, had no orientation at all. Most Board Orientations are nuts-and-bolts affairs, with a focus on...
by Hugh MacPhie | Mar 20, 2024 | Leadership
Managing ‘The People in Your Neighbourhood’ Around the Board Table Like learning the Hungarian language or calming down an angry two-year-old, chairing or facilitating a Board meeting is hard. All groups have moods that are always changing, which directly impacts...
by Hugh MacPhie | Dec 11, 2023 | Leadership
Ten Things Successful Leaders Do Well Being a leader – of three people, a production shift, or a 10,000-person organization – is really hard. We work with leaders at all levels of organizations, and we have seen patterns and traits from the ones who are...
by Hugh MacPhie | Nov 2, 2023 | Culture, Leadership
What Romance Novels Can Teach Us About Workplace Culture During the pandemic, I rediscovered my teenage obsession with romance novels. I have a PhD in English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century love stories, but that was high-brow romance. What I was...
by Hugh MacPhie | Jul 31, 2023 | Leadership
Build Capacity and Lead Your Team: How to Delegate Effectively Have you ever led a team where it felt like you were doing all the work? Like you couldn’t focus on the bigger picture because you were always fighting fires and solving problems for your team? Or, maybe...
