by Mike Edwards | Feb 21, 2019 | Leadership Daily
A team I coached was struggling to confront the truth. They’d admit privately they were not speaking with total honesty. The team members told me how they would filter their words. One person told me how she sugar coat things so it did not sound harsh. Another team...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 20, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Daily
I am a drummer with the Ceremonial Band of the Waterloo Regional Police. We are both a marching and concert band. One of the longest parades we do is the Kitchener-Waterloo Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade is over 4 km from start to finish. I have lived in this...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 19, 2019 | Leadership Daily
In case you weren’t keeping score, I have published a new post almost daily for 19 days (I missed one day). In case you’re wondering, let me tell you about the experiment I’ve been running. For those who write, you can likely relate to the relationship with the...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 15, 2019 | Behaviour, Leadership, Leadership Daily
Think of all the people you interact with daily. Now think of the number of times you judge someone actions as dysfunctional. You might find yourself thinking, or saying, something like this: “What a jerk …” “I can’t believe how inconsiderate he is …” “Why on...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 11, 2019 | Behaviour, Leadership, Leadership Daily
What do you do when things start getting emotional at work? What if they’re your emotions? I’ve heard more than once recently, how some people believe emotions have no place at work. There was a period in my career where I subscribed to this belief. Things were...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 10, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Daily
I’ve been listening to the book “The four hour work week” by Tim Ferris. It’s a self-help book in which the author describes his life, and how he’s transformed the way he thinks about work so now he only works four hours each week. The premise is pretty straight...
