Have you and your team started your spring cleaning? You don’t need dusters or brooms, other than metaphorical ones, but it is likely that your team has some things that are no longer useful, are weighing your team down or are just collecting dust but you have simply been ignoring them. Here are a few…
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As has forever been the case, or so it seems, new labels and buzz words abound. Those that stick are able to clearly describe something in a word or two. Those describing our present day economy and by extension our businesses and workplaces are definitely sticky. The On-Demand Economy Some economists describe it as the…
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I am always in search of stories of exceptional leaders and the practices that make them special. I’m referring to everyday leaders, not the ones that get the headlines and write the books. Some of them come, I confess, from eavesdropping as did the one I discovered at a reception. It was during a harsh…
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Imagine trying to win the Grand Prix with less than a fine tuned engine. And yet that is not unlike what many leaders do every day. In fact, they often try to be the first to the finish line with an engine that sputters. Henry Ford was someone who knew engines and realized that he not…
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This month Kinect’s President, Nicole Bendaly, and Founder, Leslie Bendaly, were special guests on the popular Toronto based radio show Career Buzz with host Mark Franklin. The interview with the mother-daughter team looked at their career history plus discussed how and why Leslie launched the team performance company. Host Mark Franklin led a very interesting chat which…
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Broken windows is a theory in criminology that suggests that if you let little things go they become bigger ones. The theory is based on the observation that the existence of broken windows in a neighbourhood frequently is found in association with other signs of general social fragmentation and disorder, such as property neglect, disrepair,…
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Essential Leadership Practices If morale is low, if there is conflict within the team, if team members are having difficulty communicating, or if you find the team isn’t quite ‘gelling’, it is often because the team has not taken time to explore the behaviours and practices essential to the team’s performance, and just as importantly,…
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