By Sandy K Harder I recently read a thought-provoking and very practical book entitled The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture by Thomas G. Crane (2012). It was especially interesting for me to read it with both of my professional hats on – as an organizational leader (in my… Read more →
The Five Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace
By Louise Pelleiter I attended a workshop in the Spring where the presenter (Cy Wakeman) suggested that people are the masters of their own misery in the workplace. That drew me in immediately because I often work with people who are unhappy and feel helpless with the never-ending demands of work. I have heard many… Read more →
Three Insider Tips for Investing in Trust
By David Falk, MA Have you ever considered that the trust others have in you can fluctuate like investments on the stock market? Or that, like an investor, it is wise to work at managing your portfolio of trust, ensuring that you have a good mix of investments that can improve the resiliency and long-term… Read more →
Let’s go for a walk
By David Dyck “He grew up without my influence and I grew up without his.” These words from Richard Wagamese have been echoing in my head ever since I heard them 6 weeks ago. Wagamese, conducting a radio interview about his latest novel, Medicine Walk, was describing how the themes of the book intersected with… Read more →
When conflict hits close to home
My son came up for breakfast in the morning and the first thing he said before I even had chance to look up from the newspaper was, “Don’t be mad”. I looked up to see that he had a swollen black eye and a very swollen, slightly out-of-joint, nose. He had gone to a party the… Read more →
Introducing our 2014/15 leadership development seminar series
Facilitated Solutions is proud to launch its new leadership development seminar series in Winnipeg, Manitoba! This series is designed to help managers and supervisors develop their leadership capacity to effectively prevent, manage and resolve conflict at work. The series consists of monthly half-day leadership development sessions running from November 2014 – May 2015. While the… Read more →