What is your leadership strength? Is it vision? Is it strategy? Many of us may have strength in one are of leadership and that is where we place our focus and our efforts- if it’s easy we will do it. However a great leader is able to draw on their natural abilities and strengths while [...]
The transportation and logistics industry has a problem. It’s a good problem that other industries would love to have. The problem is that they need good people. Finding and keeping good people to work in warehouses, driving trucks or in logistics is a unique problem in that there is a generational component to the [...]
Recently I spent a day with a consultant- the purpose of the day was to look at my business and have an outside expert tell me what he saw. I have enjoyed great success as a consultant myself, a coach and keynote speaker. Here’s my problem I had gotten used to my success. Before you [...]
I am leaving Minneapolis where I worked with an agriculture group and this morning I had a chance to see Paul Mobely speak about his book of photographs American Farmer. I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan- my father raised me. There is a photo in Paul’s book of a father and his daughter [...]
I just worked with a major agriculture client in Minneapolis, one of the largest in the world. The focus of our conversations was around the biggest challenge facing the agriculture industry in the next few years. It is the war for talent. This company has a stellar reputation in the market place in regards to [...]
Perspective is everything. Everyone has a story and as leaders our stories shape who we are and how we lead. Your story is your back story, the experiences and situations that you have had shape your current and future reality. How you interpret your story determines how you see other people’s stories- and how you [...]
Speed has infiltrated every area of our lives, faster personal lives, more activities and scheduling with families and constant data from media, social media and the workplace. It can be downright stressful OR we can adapt to the new reality that we are living in. The truth is if you are resisting the speed by [...]
By Cheryl Cran January 2012 A major agriculture company recently complained to me that they had over 3000 jobs to fill in the Midwest and they could not find trained talent who were willing to take these jobs. I know this might sound crazy if you are someone looking for a job or [...]
A recent article on Mashable states that the stereotype of women buying less technology has been de-bunked. In fact women are leading in the purchases of tablets, laptops and smartphones. Some stats they shared from a Perks Associates survey are: Women expressed more interest in tablets (18%), laptops (20%) and smartphones (20%). Only 15% of [...]
The information age peppers us with constant data and stimulation. We now know in a nanosecond about an earthquake in Turkey, the state of the global economy and who is winning on Dancing With the Stars. As leaders (we are all leaders regardless of our title at work) we are living and working in an unprecedented time of [...]
