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Mentoring Matters – Jaspreet Sandhu

Posted May 23, 2018 in Member Spotlight

Roundtable Mentor, Jaspreet Sandhu, Director of Loyalty and Engagement at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), shared her perspective on how to keep a team motivated following layoffs and cost-cutting. “Without a moment to reflect, and connect with a place of your own authentic motivation, you run the risk of being disingenuous in your approach.” […]

Mentoring Matters – Jennifer Campbell

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Roundtable Mentor, Jennifer Campbell, Marketing Strategy Leader at United Way Greater Toronto, shared her perspective on how to keep a team motivated following layoffs and cost-cutting. “… consider if you have the messages and information you need to effectively represent the organization’s vision and plans to move forward.” READ MORE

#leadershiptruth – Star performers are overrated.

Posted May 22, 2018 in Latest News & Insights

I once read a really interesting article that looked at what happened when a star trader moved from one company to another. Guess what? They rarely (if ever) replicated their success. Turns out a superstar is only as good as the team that they work with. Too often we place too much stock in the […]

Recap Vol 124 – The ‘B’ List

Posted April 27, 2018 in Latest News & Insights

Every month we scour the web for great leadership articles for our popular newsletter The Roundtable RECAP, and we thought you might enjoy some of our favourite articles that didn’t quite make the cut. How jerk bosses stifle innovation. 4 steps to prioritizing people AND culture. 4 questions every great leader should be able to answer. 3 essential habits […]

#leadershiptruth – Don’t give too many f*cks.

Posted April 24, 2018 in Latest News & Insights

One of the big problems that I see with high performers (type A personalities) is that they give too many f*cks. They put an inordinate amount of pressure on themselves to deliver results ‘no matter what.’ Most of the time, their bosses don’t have anywhere near the expectations on performance that these over-achievers have on […]

#leadershiptruth – Job expectations are like quicksand.

Posted April 17, 2018 in Latest News & Insights

Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Gotta love that an acronym developed by the US military has now gone mainstream as a way to describe today’s workplaces. With the pace of change now simply relentless and industries being disrupted at increasingly rapid paces, the challenge that many leaders face is the […]