Twice since last Thursday, the same snippet of conversation has happened to me, prompted by the question, “So what do you do?” After explaining that my primary occupation is an Executive, Leadership, and Career Transition Coach, and I do organization culture work, I also toss in, “…and I also teach dance at Bloor and Spadina…
It’s an old joke from Borscht Belt comedians. A man comes to the rabbi and asks, “Rabbi, is it true that a man and a woman dancing together is forbidden?” The rabbi responds rather vehemently, “Yes, of course. It is forbidden for a man and a woman to dance together.” The man goes on to…
Today, I spoke with a client who had attended my Performance Management workshop last week. The seminar asks participants to describe the attributes, behaviours, and characteristics of a “team at its best” and then proceeds to derive the ways in which that team can be created using new approaches to acknowledgement, dealing with problems, reviewing…
I’m involved in an interesting project in my practice that involves analyzing interviews with an organization’s leadership team. The purpose is to inform the thinking for a possible market repositioning exercise for one of the client’s main brands. There are several consultant groups involved (along with the obligatory, complicated political wrangling), as well as many…