Before Leadership 101 – your personal vision, mission and values
December 14, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Be Present, Work
Do you have a personal vision for your life? Do you have a personal mission statement and are you absolutely clear on your personal values? As a leader, it is likely that you have a vision for your organization along with clear mission and values statements. This is par for the course in nearly all […]
Life is about knowing which button to press
December 3, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Free and Laughing, Observe
Three mornings last week I noticed that I woke up way after my alarm had gone off. I figured that maybe I was just so tired that I slept through it. Could I really be that tired though? Or age was really catching up with me and my hearing going? But then I noticed that […]
Life is about knowing which button to press
December 3, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Accept, Free and Laughing
Three mornings last week I noticed that I woke up way after my alarm had gone off. I figured that maybe I was just so tired that I slept through it. Could I really be that tired though? Or age was really catching up with me and my hearing going? But then I noticed that […]
Listen…Silent
November 28, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Free and Laughing, Practice
Did you ever realize that the word “LISTEN” has the same letters as “SILENT”? How profound. Listening is a skill that is fundamentally important to the success of any and all relationships – love, business, family, friendship. Yet most of us have a very, very hard time really LISTENING. Speaking is vaunted as a […]
How to turn “time wasted” into time well-spent
November 26, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Free and Laughing, Observe
“That was a total waste of my time” I muttered to myself. I had just completed a meeting with a large multinational here in Toronto to “pitch” my Executive Coaching services. The meeting had not gone as I had intended. It got more and more painful as the minutes laboured on. I was not connecting […]
Sorry
November 22, 2012 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Free and Laughing
“Sorry, not my Thanksgiving Day today” I am so tempted to say this when I am wished “Happy Thanksgiving Day” on this special American holiday. Thanksgiving Day is not a tradition in my Jamaican culture, and the national Thanksgiving Day in Canada takes place in October. So why do non-Americans insist on wishing me “Happy […]
