Excerpted from the forth coming The Truth About Being a LeaderAnd Nothing But The Truth

Have you ever walked into a high school locker room or a martial arts class? The smell that hits you is that of competition and sweat. In meeting rooms in organizations around the world, the...

After 3 long days of a very intensive workshop in Toronto, a group of us decided to go canoeing for a day, up in Barre, Ontario (an hour north of Toronto) on the Nottawasaga River. It was a warm day, the water was warm, and no one else was on this pristine flat-water river winding through a...

Ontario Sports and Olympic Youth Academy (OOYA) shape our leaders beyond the 2010 Winter Olympics

Leadership in our Canadian youth is pervasive and active. As a volunteer, I was witness and observer to an extraordinary 4-day conference hosted by the University of Ottawa (May 11-14). This...

What is Faith? Faith is believing in something. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, concept or idea. It is the mental acceptance of the truth or actuality of something. In its positive aspect, it is a belief in the favorable outcome of anything...

“It was precisely that evening in Lodi that I cam to believe in myself as an unusual person and became consumed with the ambition to do the great things that until then had been but a fantasy.”

(Napoleon Bonaparte, “Thoughts”)

“They may all e called...

Mission: How Leaders Create The Greatest Version Of What You Can Be

A statement of mission is one of the most powerful things you can do, whether you are running a major corporation or a small team. It expresses the purpose for the organisations existence, its raison detre, and becomes...

Mentoring Future Leaders: Setting The Framework For Success Within An Organization!

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men (women)
to do what he (she) wants done, and the self restraint to keep from meddling
with them while they do it.

The key to life is to be around the people who will empower you to reach the next level in life! In order to exceed your present reach, you need to be around people who will help you stretch a little farther. The secret to a productive mastermind team is for you to surround yourself with people...

Implementing new strategies, new directions, new objectives, is introducing change, major change, into the organisation. As such it is essential that the implementation is approached, managed, in a similar fashion to that adopted when major changes are being made. The implementation of the...

According to the latest studies, the average employee is delivering only 50% of what they are capable of offering to your organization. As a leader, youre frustrated by this lack of performance. Youd like to clone your high performers so you can become more results oriented like the...

Leading Change: Pick Up Your Own Room (But No One Else’s) . . .

Just this morning, my wife Holly caught me red-handed straightening up my 12 year-olds room.

This, not 2 hours after we both communicated to our precious Katie in no uncertain terms that she would go no where,...

Leadership Training – All You Need To Know About It

Leadership training is of paramount importance to those who aspire to be good leaders and stand tall among others. Leadership training improves communication skills and other qualities that are key to becoming a successful and...