Category: Remote Working

Renowned writer Robert Browning first used the term ‘less is more’ in an 1855 poem.  This concept basically means that doing less on a particular project can actually have more impact than doing a lot. Nowhere in the business world is this more true than when pitching your product or service, whether to investors or…

original post Mar.16th 2020 – update for Sept.11 2020 Remember this idea from early March >>> In your more recent moments, you may be finding (or will find) yourself in a potential state of flux due to the ‘rapidly evolving situation’ that is the COVID-19 pandemic. Are you scrambling?  Are you looking forward to a prolonged…

Negotiating anything in life can be a hard and daunting task. Maybe you’re itching to get back into the office, maybe you’re cautious about returning, or maybe you’ve found a new love for working from home! If that’s the case, how do you negotiate with your employer to let you continue to work from home…

Most of us didn’t sign up to be on daytime television as actors or hosts but for many of us, it feels like that’s exactly where we have ended up.  Added to the stress of working from home, pivoting a business and completely revamping policies, procedures and protocols, being on camera for most of our…

One of my favourite wall plaques is one you have likely seen – it reads:  “Remember, as far as anyone knows we are a nice normal family.”  Families are dynamic, and I think we can agree that at various times (hopefully infrequently) most families are a bit crazy. It might be a phase, it might…

Whether we want to admit it or not, we are all creatures of habit.  In small ways and sometimes in big ways, we like what we like when we like it and we are not happy nor are we comfortable when someone tells us we are no longer allowed to …. Enter a pandemic. As…