In some of the work I do, I facilitate workplace seminars on how to create great team and organizational cultures. In fact, I’m scheduled to be teaching a degree course at Schulich Business School on Business Communications and Team Dynamics later this year. One of the simple communication ideas that goes a long way towards…
When I’m not teaching dance, among other things, I teach an undergrad university course. As you might expect, many undergrad students are very concerned about their marks. And so, it is an inevitable as a snowstorm in January that students will complain to professors about the mark they received on an assignment or test. This…
With the coldest days of the winter upon us – and -30 windchills are nothing to sneeze at… well, on reflection, maybe they are… – one must turn one’s mind to warmer thoughts. Soups, stews, parkas, burning logs in the fireplace, and among other things, partner dancing. But, not all dances with a partner are…
Over the weekend, I attended a family event on the other side of the country. It was an event in honour of, and oriented towards people who are considerably younger than I am. And there was music. And dancing… of a sort. Mostly, the dancing consisted of teens jumping up and down, swinging their arms…
I was in the gym this morning and noticed the multitudes of people who apparently resolved to get to the gym more often in 2019. One of the coaching referral sites from which I meet some of my new clients has about twice as many requests for coaches as usual. Another coach referral service told…
This week is our last session of Salsaholics Anonymous for 2018, and the end of my third year of running Salsaholics after Sunny Devine decided to step aside (I’ve been involved with Salsaholics now for a total of 13 years). Since the beginning, Salsaholics has taught over 2,000 students. Since I became the owner, we’ve…
Tis the season for mall parking lots filled to overflowing, never-ending holiday music coming out of every available sound device, and ugly sweaters. Yes, the winter seasonal holidays are upon us and with them come the rounds of holiday parties, be they lavish – or not-so-lavish – corporate events or private house parties, or something…
When I started regularly working out at the gym, I was given the introductory “tour” by one of the trainers. For those who haven’t experienced this particular form of initiation ritual, it was a pretty demeaning form of high-pressure sales tactic to get me to sign up for what would amount to several thousands of…
This week, I spoke at the Schulich Executive Education Centre about 21st-Century Hiring—essentially, why the practices that worked so effectively for hiring staff through the last century don’t work all that well now. (Did you know that nearly half of all new hires fail within the first 18 months? If you’re at a managerial level…
I’m working on a talk that I’m giving next Monday morning, November 19 at the Schulich Executive Education Centre at the TD Centre. The talk is about 21st-century hiring, and how it differs from how we’ve been thinking about, and acting on, hiring over the past 50 years or so. I talk about how the…