Blog - Unlimited Potential

From time to time I will invite guests to write for this blog. I am delighted that my first guest contributor is Bruce Swan, an executive coach with more than 30 years experience as a senior executive. While president and CEO of several health organizations, Bruce used a coach's approach to leadership. Bruce and I team up for the delivery of workshops and coaching services—and on these pages, of course—because different perspectives on leadership allow for more learning and better progress.

By developing coalitions in health care, you can enhance a system’s capacity to integrate services, reduce wait times and increase efficiency.  For such coalitions to work, two ingredients are required:

1. a common cause or purpose
2. a trusting relationship among coalition members

Tags: Legacy Leadership - Creator of Collaboration and Innovation, Collaboration, teamwork, Legacy Leadership, Leadership development, Leadership, Partnerships, LEADS- Develop coalitions, leads

My friend has a very special friendship with her elderly neighbour. While my friend is at work, her neighbour, a spry 87-year old lady, takes her dog on long, happy walks throughout the neighbourhood and parks nearby. The neighbour gets fresh air and exercise, not to mention heaps of canine gratitude. My friend enjoys peace of mind knowing that her dog is in excellent care and she loves hearing about the adventures that her neighbour and dog share.

Tags: LEADS - Lead self, Legacy Leadership - Holder of Vision and Values, Legacy Leadership, leads, Positive Mental Game, Happiness

The kids watch it, so I wanted to make sure they get some teamwork lessons out of it....

Sure, it takes talent to make it on American Idol.

But how does teamwork figure in this talent show?

You take individually talented singers and make them sing as a team. Based on their team performance, you judge contestants individually. Interesting. Sounds perhaps a little like your job environment?

Here are some lessons I learned from watching tonight:

Tags: LEAD, Legacy Leadership, Legacy Leadership - Holder of Vision and Values, LEADS - Lead self, teamwork, Inspiration

If you were like me during the World Junior Hockey final between Canada and Russia, you were pretty confident that Canada would win after the second period. I was so certain of the victory that I took a call from a friend. She asked if it was a good time to talk and I replied, “sure, Canada is ahead 3-0. We know who’s going to win this game”.

Tags: Inspiration, coaching, Legacy Leadership, Leadership development, Hockey, Positive Mental Game