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12 Reflection Questions to Wrap Up Your Year and Get Ready for 2025
An annual tradition, please see below my 2024/2025 12 Questions. A version of this is also published in my column at the Globe and Mail. Wow, 2025! That has a real ring to it, doesn't it. Well before we ring in the new year, it's time to take stock of the year past...
Career Detours – For Good, Better, or Worse
This article is about career detours. The good, and sometimes not so good. How to recognize when you are on a good ‘detour’; when you might be stuck, how to find your way back? It builds on a previous article I wrote (Put Some Zig Zag Into Your Career). Takes about...
Leadership Conversations: Build Trust or Break it?
NOTE: This article was first written for the Globe and Mail Careers, Leadership Lab. --- Ahh, that trust thing – when you have it, everything is good. Without it, so much can go wrong. It takes time to build up trust and yet only a fraction of a second to break it....
He/She Said What!!?? 5 Communications Blunders From the Top
Note: this article is adapted from an original post from my communications site (Chadnick Communications). We all have those moments when we have inadvertently said the wrong thing or held back and didn’t say what needed to be said. Sometimes these moments are benign....
Primer: The Neuroscience of Distrust/ Trust in Conversation – Blame it on Your Brain!
Every word, phrase, interaction, or even silence can have a ripple effect for good, better, or worse.... What makes a conversation good? Not good? What creates trust? Distrust? Much of my work these past years has engaged others in these and other related questions --...
A Few Good Habits: “Ahh February” Part 2
Feeling the winter blahs? Lost sight of those shiny goals from the new year? Losing 'steam'? In my last post ("Ahh February"), I shared a story about how my father taught me some valuable life lessons - notably, the importance of pacing. The context was related to...
Ahh February…(Part 1)
"Ahh February" is a Two Part Series. See "Ahh February, Part 2" for a few good ideas on keeping your 'mojo' going throughout the year, particularly getting through 'Feb and Winter blahs'. --- Here's something you may not know about me: When I was a teenager, I ran...
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