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…
Every week at Salsaholics Anonymous, we welcome dancers who are new to Salsaholics, most of whom are new to salsa dancing. The challenge of our Foundation class is to both accommodate new dancers learning the basics of salsa and enable more experienced dancers to polish up their foundational moves with a strong focus on great…
This week was the municipal election throughout the province. As with most municipal elections, incumbents have a massive advantage: It’s very rare that an incumbent mayor or councillor loses their seat on city council. This time was both very different and very much the same: The resulting council will be comprised – as per usual…
Recently, I was at an event that was organized by people who are not partner dancers. In other words, they enjoy dance, but mostly in a solo, freestyle, do-what-expresses-you style. Nothing wrong with that, of course—in fact, there’s a lot right with anyone expressing their feelings about, and interpretation of, great music (or even not-so-great…
In my coaching work with clients, we eventually get to the point of beginning a trajectory towards the type of change the client wants to see in their career. (And yes, “eventually” does indeed suggest that there’s usually a lot of stuff that needs to be cleared away before getting to that point!). We always…