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Do not be caught off guard
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Do not be caught off guard
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January 7, 2025
As you stand at the crease of 2025, one thing is absolutely certain, no one knows what the future holds and even the person with the most thought out ...
The power of gratitude
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The power of gratitude
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December 24, 2024
Saying ‘thank you’ has the potential to be a company’s most profitable tool. Have yourself a merry Christmas. As we wind down on 2024, I pause to say ...
Business and Professional Ethics (cont’d)
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Business and Professional Ethics (cont’d)
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December 10, 2024
I once had a colleague whose watch words were “Work by order, get pay straight.” He was someone with influence in the organisation who I bounced my th...
Business and professional ethics
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Business and professional ethics
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December 3, 2024
Every organization should have a set of moral principles, values and standards of conduct to guide its operations. These principles are referred to as...
The Wages Regulations: Vacation and Sick Leave
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The Wages Regulations: Vacation and Sick Leave
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November 12, 2024
Welcome back to our series on the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Protection of Employment Act, 2003, and the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Statut...
Examining our Wages Regulations
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Examining our Wages Regulations
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November 5, 2024
Over the past few weeks we were looking at the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Protection of Employment Act, 2003. Today we shift to the Wages Regula...
Transformational Leadership
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Transformational Leadership
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September 3, 2024
Last week, we established that, transformational leaders have the ability to inspire positive changes in individuals and organizations. That Transform...
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Manager interactions and employee engagement
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August 27, 2024
A MANAGER ONCE said to me, I know what ‘they’ want for them to perform better and be engaged. They want more money and I don’t have more money to give...
Leader engagement and employee output
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Leader engagement and employee output
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August 20, 2024
SOMETIME around the 1980s, scholars began exploring the emotional and symbolic aspects of leadership. Studies sought to understand how followers (empl...
Approaches to leadership
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Approaches to leadership
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August 13, 2024
THERE ARETHREE TYPES of approaches by which leadership could be examined – One-Dimensional: Approaches that focus on traits and characteristics that m...
Employee theft
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Employee theft
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July 23, 2024
IMAGINE YOU have a breadfruit tree that gives you shade and every day a neighbour passes by and gives the tree one chop with his cutlass. Every day yo...
Recognize the importance of your employees
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Recognize the importance of your employees
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June 25, 2024
Priming the pump is about putting something in to get something out. There is no escaping investing in employees if managers want to enjoy greater pro...
Be savvy about work place politics
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Be savvy about work place politics
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June 18, 2024
Recently, someone asked my advice on how to deal with an issue in their organization. It involved a supervisor who, under the guise of ‘concern for he...
In transition-rewarding encounters
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In transition-rewarding encounters
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May 28, 2024
Over the past week, I closed one chapter in my professional career as I transitioned from one company and an incredible team and prepare to enter anot...
Motivation and Employee Performance
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Motivation and Employee Performance
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May 14, 2024
RECENTLY I have come across a statistic on VANTAGECIRCLE that claims that 52% of employees perform their task without enthusiasm or care for their wor...
Responding to change
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Responding to change
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May 7, 2024
A few weeks ago, as I contemplated announcing a big career change, I began to experience feelings of anxiety. Secretly I tried to decipher those feeli...
Our body language and what it conveys
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Our body language and what it conveys
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April 23, 2024
“Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also covers how we perceive ourselves and how those perception...
What does your body language communicate?
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What does your body language communicate?
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March 19, 2024
Olivia Fox Cabane in her book ‘The Charisma Myth’ shares a story of William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli who were both politicians contesting the 1...
Being aware of the ‘similar to me’ effect
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Being aware of the ‘similar to me’ effect
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February 20, 2024
“For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only ta...
Perception and Reality
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Perception and Reality
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February 6, 2024
“Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that’s the truth in people’s minds.” Some years ago, I e...
Be an influencer who builds people up
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Be an influencer who builds people up
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January 23, 2024
“As a leader, you have an incredible opportunity to change someone’s life every single day. Leadership is never about tearing people down, it’s all ab...
How about being more intentional in 2024?
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How about being more intentional in 2024?
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January 9, 2024
Happy New Year Everybody! Before we get back into the groove of Prime the Pump, I want to inject some of karenhearttalk into today’s article with a do...
Leadership and the dangers of false perceptions
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Leadership and the dangers of false perceptions
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December 19, 2023
Some leaders do not appreciate the value of honest feedback. They assume people are supportive of them when no one challenges them, and everyone is se...
The perils of false perceptions – Part 2
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The perils of false perceptions – Part 2
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December 12, 2023
Trevor, a leader of an organization contacted me to formulate a separation letter for one of their members. According to him, an investigation was don...
The perils of false perceptions – Part 1
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The perils of false perceptions – Part 1
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December 5, 2023
I usually don’t beseech people to read and share my articles, but I am making an exception and ask you please to indulge me. Over the next couple of w...