The Best Personality Assessments Help Increase Self-Awareness What is self-awareness? While awareness can be defined as the conscious perception and understanding of our environment located externally from ourselves, self-awareness can be defined as the conscious perception and understanding of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours driven internally within ourselves that may also influence our external experience.…

Everything DiSC Comparison Reports: Overview DiSC Comparison Report: What is it? Everything DiSC Comparison Reports are insightful and robust 10-page research-validated reports that can be created for any two participants—even people who have taken different Everything DiSC® profiles, such as Everything DiSC Management® and a direct report who completed Everything DiSC® Workplace. These reports explore…

How to Develop Teamwork? For about 20 years, as leaders, coaches, consultants, facilitators, and trainers of teams, a great majority of our work has been about solving problems with teamwork. Through all of our experience, what’s ALWAYS part of the solution to any teamwork challenges – people on the team being team players. As for the…

Updated Human Rights Legislation July 2016 On July 28, 2016, the Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2016 came into effect.  The amendment: Adds the grounds “gender identity or expression” to all areas of the Code (except wage discrimination based on sex). Adds the grounds “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the non-profit exemption,…

What is the Difference Between Objectivity and Subjectivity? Are any of us truly objective? While a noble concept, being objective is challenging to achieve. Objectivity is acknowledging something as existing in reality, experienced in the world by others, separate from our mind, without attaching any meaning to that something. As soon as meaning is attached,…

Prioritizing Our Values Would you steal a chocolate bar? What if you got money to do it? What if you had the guarantee that you wouldn’t be caught? If your answer is “no”, meaning you would not steal, then the next question is why not?  For many of us, our answer is rooted to our…

Accountability Influences Success ‘Passing the Buck’ or ‘The Buck Stops Here’ Who is Buck? Apparently, the term was historically used in poker. Metaphorically, the term is used today with accountability, or potentially more directly synonymous with blame. We can take action through our thoughts, words, emotions, and bodies.  With our actions, otherwise known as our performance,…

How are Attitudes Influenced? Consider for a moment that you are in a life threatening situation, and there are other people involved, whose lives are also in jeopardy. The specific situation doesn’t matter for the point of this discussion. Maybe you’re in a severe weather storm? Maybe you’re confronted by a wild animal? Maybe you’re…

Attitude Self-Assessment There’s a spectrum to our attitudes – two directions that we can go – ranging from 100% positive on one end to 100% negative on the other end, and of course, any percentage of positive and/or negative in between. More importantly, our attitudes have an impact, and we can either have an attitude…

Busy! “How are you doing?” “Really crazy busy.” “What’s happening?” “The usual – busy as ever.” “What’s new?” “Nothing much – Still busy!” Sometime’s we even ask, “Keeping busy?” (Maybe a ridiculous question?) A team was defining habitual negative talk that happens in their organization. The word ‘busy’ was highlighted. One of the team member’s said,…