If you’ve ever felt unsure about what it takes to inspire your people during a moment of change, confusion or crisis in your organization, you are not alone. Every construction leader will at some point in their career experience the pressure to offer some sort of inspiration to their team amid a time of uncertainty. […]
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Many construction leaders struggle to deliver clear messages to their teams. Instead, they deliver messaging soup – throwing everything into their message without a filter, without prioritization, without planning, and it leaves their people feeling confused and uncertain about the way forward or what action to take. So, how can you deliver a clear message
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As the day to day activities of leaders are increasingly enabled or replaced by Artificial Intelligence and other forms of technological innovation, there are still 3 core domains of leadership that will never go away. In this video, Arrowhead President Sean Reid shares the three essential areas of focus in which leaders should continue to invest
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In this short blog post, we explore the leadership qualities essential to the effective management of any crisis. Many leaders continue to struggle with overwhelm and a lack of confidence in this moment. That is understandable. This is an unprecedented situation. It is natural that we would find ourselves lacking confidence and unsure of how
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I recently had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Bradley Hartmann for his excellent Behind Your Back podcast. During the interview, we addressed a variety of leadership topics, including: leadership communication lessons I learned from writing a speech for the Queen of England a situational leadership framework to make more of an impact in less
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Too often, leaders resist having difficult conversations because they assume only win-lose outcomes are possible – one person in this conversation will win, the other will lose. But this kind of binary thinking is counter-productive and holds leaders back from having the tough conversations that will move their relationships and their organizations forward. The key
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The initial response from industry leaders to recent acts of racism on Ontario construction jobsites was swift and clear: there is no place for racism in our industry. And at least one of the specific companies involved has taken concrete steps to ensure such incidents never occur on one of their projects again. But what
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A lot of leaders struggle to effectively and consistently recognize their people. But the consequences of not recognizing our people for the good work they do is lower engagement, poor retention and diminished productivity. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this video, I share the “AcTS of Recognition”: a simple strategy leaders can
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A growing body of research is quickly throwing cold water on the “digital by default” workplace design strategy sweeping the corporate world, according to a recent column from Don Pittis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). More and more data show that video conferencing is a poor substitute for face-to-face office interaction, and the consequences
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I wrote a column in Canadian HR Reporter this week in which I raise some serious questions about the “digital by default” (i.e. permanent work from home) trend recently embraced by several prominent technology companies. Were we really made to live our work lives in isolation? Even the most people-centric organizations would be well advised
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