My eldest daughter is in her 3rd year of University and just recently started an internship. It has been wonderful to watch her excitement and joy about taking what she has been learning and apply it in the workforce. One of the challenges that she faced in her first week was having to work remotely. […]
I recently was working with the staff at a car dealership when the temperature soared to almost 40 degrees (104 degrees F to the Americans reading).  It was hot, damn hot. As I walked from the front office to the workshop where the mechanics were sweating as they worked on repairing cars, something caught my […]
The Winter Olympics have started and I’m always interested to watch the athletes that are stepping on to the world stage to compete. I’m amazed at their abilities and often find myself watching on and cheering loudly at the tv. The interesting thing that I keep coming back to is, what did the Olympic athletes […]
So we are into February and everyone has hit the ground running. For most people the holiday season is well and truly over and now the treadmill of activity has turned up to full speed. I was talking with a Senior Leader and asked her what her plan was for the year. Her response was […]
As we approach the week of Christmas, the excitement starts to increase as people look forward to spending time with family, friends and away from work. It is as if we all breathe a collective sigh of relief that we have once again made it through another working year, whilst dodging the uncertainty of lockdowns, […]
We have finally reached the back half of December. The last month of the year and everyone is busily trying to get everything completed before the holiday season and some time off. The number of meeting requests has increased and the number of projects that need to be completed has now reached breakneck speed.  People […]
I had a really interesting conversation with a colleague about the Black Friday sales. It seems to be something that has really gathered momentum here in Australia with many businesses even offering the deals until the week after! She had jumped on the sales with gusto and secured a range of gifts for the family […]
The race towards Christmas has started. Many people that I have spoken to have noticed the increase in pace at work as well as the end of school year activities and the massive need for people to go out for Christmas functions, which is probably going to be bigger now that people have been out […]
In the US Thanksgiving is a massive holiday. Yes it has the common American commercialisation (who doesn’t love a Black Friday Sales!), but at its core it is about something much deeper. When I was raised Thanksgiving was about spending time with family and the people you loved and taking the time to reflect about […]
Given the very challenging year that we have had with the global pandemic and the rolling lockdowns that have increased uncertainty and fear, I thought it would be good to revisit some wisdom from my father. My father, Larry Stein, passed away almost exactly 2 years ago. After battling liver cancer for a number of […]
